Sirat Ibn Hisham 174
The excellence of Zamzam and the poetry composed about it
[ فَضْلُ زَمْزَمَ وَمَا قِيلَ فِيهَا مِنْ شِعْرٍ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَعَفَّتْ زَمْزَمُ عَلَى الْبِئَارِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ قَبْلَهَا يَسْقِي عَلَيْهَا الْحَاجُّ، وَانْصَرَفَ النَّاسُ إلَيْهَا لِمَكَانِهَا مِنْ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ، وَلِفَضْلِهَا عَلَى مَا سِوَاهَا مِنْ الْمِيَاهِ وَلِأَنَّهَا بِئْرُ إسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ إبْرَاهِيمَ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامُ، وَافْتَخَرَتْ بِهَا بَنُو عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ عَلَى قُرَيْشٍ كُلِّهَا، وَعَلَى سَائِرِ الْعَرَبِ، فَقَالَ مُسَافِرُ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرِو بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ شَمْسِ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ، وَهُوَ يَفْخَرُ عَلَى قُرَيْشٍ بِمَا وُلُّوا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ السِّقَايَةِ وَالرِّفَادَةِ، وَمَا أَقْدَمُوا لِلنَّاسِ مِنْ ذَلِكَ، وَبِزَمْزَمَ حِينَ ظَهَرَتْ لَهُمْ، وَإِنَّمَا كَانَ بَنُو عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ أَهْلَ بَيْتٍ وَاحِدٍ، شَرَفُ بَعْضِهِمْ لِبَعْضِ شَرَفٌ، وَفَضْلُ بَعْضِهِمْ لِبَعْضِ فَضْلٌ:
Translation
✧ [The Virtue of Zamzam and What Was Said About It in Poetry] Ibn Isḥāq said: Zamzam effaced the wells that were before it, at which the pilgrims used to water, and the people turned to it because of its location in the Sacred Mosque and because of its superiority over the other waters, and because it is the well of Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm (peace be upon them both). The Banū ʿAbd Manāf boasted of it over all of Quraysh and over the rest of the Arabs. Musāfir b. Abī ʿAmr b. Umayya b. ʿAbd Shams b. ʿAbd Manāf said, boasting over Quraysh because of the watering and provisioning they had been put in charge of, and what they had offered to the people of that, and because of Zamzam when it appeared to them—and the Banū ʿAbd Manāf were but a single house, the honour of some of them being honour to the others, and the excellence of some of them being excellence to the others:
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