Sirat Ibn Hisham 198
The death of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib and the poetry composed in mourning for him
وَفَاةُ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ وَمَا رُثِيَ بِهِ مِنْ الشِّعْرِ [ وَفَاةُ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ وَمَا قِيلَ فِيهِ مِنَ الشِّعْرِ ]: فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ ثَمَانِي سِنِينَ هَلَكَ عَبْدُ الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنُ هَاشِمٍ. وَذَلِكَ بَعْدَ الْفِيلِ بِثَمَانِي سِنِينَ: قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: حَدَّثَنِي الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَعْبَدِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَهْلِهِ: أَنَّ عَبْدَ الْمُطَّلِبِ تُوُفِّيَ وَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ ابْنُ ثَمَانِي سِنِينَ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ: أَنَّ عَبْدَ الْمُطَّلِبِ لَمَّا حَضَرَتْهُ الْوَفَاةُ وَعَرَفَ أَنَّهُ مَيِّتٌ جَمَعَ بَنَاتِهِ وَكُنَّ سِتَّ نِسْوَةٍ: صَفِيَّةَ، وَبَرَّةَ، وَعَاتِكَةَ، وَأُمَّ حَكِيمٍ الْبَيْضَاءَ، وَأُمَيْمَةَ، وَأَرْوَى، فَقَالَ لَهُنَّ: ابْكِينَ عَلَيَّ حَتَّى أَسْمَعَ مَا تَقُلْنَ قَبْلَ أَنْ أَمُوتَ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَلَمْ أَرَ أَحَدًا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالشِّعْرِ يَعْرِفُ هَذَا الشِّعْرَ، إلَّا أَنَّهُ لَمَّا رَوَاهُ عَنْ مُحَمِّدِ بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ كَتَبْنَاهُ.
Translation
✧ The death of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib and what was said in poetry about him: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reached eight years of age, ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. Hāshim died. That was eight years after the Elephant. Ibn Isḥāq said: al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Maʿbad b. al-ʿAbbās narrated to me from some of his family that ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib died when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was eight years old. Ibn Isḥāq said: Muḥammad b. Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib narrated to me that when death came to ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib and he knew that he was dying, he gathered his daughters—they were six women: Ṣafiyyah, Barrah, ʿĀtikah, Umm Ḥakīm al-Bayḍāʾ, Umaymah, and Arwā—and said to them: 'Weep over me so that I may hear what you say before I die.' Ibn Hishām said: I have not seen anyone among the people of knowledge of poetry who knows this poetry, but since he narrated it from Muḥammad b. Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib, we have written it down.
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