Sirat Ibn Hisham 205
Ḥudhayfah's elegy for ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
[ رِثَاءُ حُذَيْفَةَ لِعَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ غَانِمٍ أَخُو بَنِي عَدِيِّ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ لُؤَيٍّ يَبْكِي عَبْدَ الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنَ هَاشِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ، وَيَذْكُرُ فَضْلَهُ وَفَضْلَ قُصَيٍّ عَلَى قُرَيْشٍ، وَفَضْلَ وَلَدِهِ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ عَلَيْهِمْ، وَذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ أُخِذَ بِغُرْمِ أَرْبَعَةِ آلَافِ دِرْهَمٍ بِمَكَّةَ، فَوَقَفَ بِهَا فَمَرَّ بِهِ أَبُو لَهَبٍ عَبْدُ الْعُزَّى بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ فَافْتَكَّهُ:: أَعَيْنِيَّ جُودَا بِالدُّمُوعِ عَلَى الصَّدْرِ وَلَا تَسْأَمَا أُسْقِيتُمَا سَبَلَ الْقَطْرِ وَجُودَا بِدَمْعٍ وَاسْفَحَا كُلَّ شَارِقٍ بُكَاءَ امْرِئٍ لَمْ يُشْوِهِ نَائِبُ الدَّهْرِ ( وَسُحَّا وَجُمَّا وَاسْجُمَا مَا بَقِيتُمَا عَلَى ذِي حَيَاءٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَذِي سِتْرِ ) عَلَى رَجُلٍ جَلْدِ الْقُوَى ذِي حَفِيظَةٍ جَمِيلِ الْمُحَيَّا غَيْرِ نِكْسٍ وَلَا هَذْرِ عَلَى الْمَاجِدِ الْبُهْلُولِ ذِي الْبَاعِ وَالنَّدَى رَبِيعِ لُؤَى فِي الْقُحُوطِ وَفِي الْعُسْرِ عَلَى خَيْبَرِ حَافٍ مِنْ مُعَدٍّ وَنَاعِلٍ كَرِيمَ الْمَسَاعِي طَيِّبَ الْخِيمِ وَالنَّجْرِ وَخَيْرُهُمْ أَصْلًا وَفَرْعًا وَمَعْدِنًا وَأَحْظَاهُمْ بِالْمُكْرَمَاتِ وَبِالذِّكْرِ وَأَوْلَاهُمْ بِالْمَجْدِ وَالْحِلْمِ وَالنُّهَى وَبِالْفَضْلِ عِنْدَ الْمُجْحِفَاتِ مِنْ الْغُبْرِ عَلَى شَيْبَةِ الْحَمْدِ الَّذِي كَانَ وَجْهُهُ يُضِيءُ سَوَادَ اللَّيْلِ كَالْقَمَرِ الْبَدْرِ وَسَاقِي الْحَجِيجِ ثُمَّ لِلْخَيْرِ هَاشِمٍ وَعَبْدُ مَنَافٍ ذَلِكَ السَّيِّدُ الفِهْري طَوَى زَمزَما عِنْدَ الْمَقَامِ فَأَصْبَحَتْ سِقَايَتُهُ فَخْرًا عَلَى كُلِّ ذِي فَخْرٍ لِيَبْكِ عَلَيْهِ كُلُّ عَانٍ بِكُرْبَةٍ وَآلُ قُصَيٍّ مِنْ مُقِلٍّ وَذِي وَفْرٍ بَنُوهُ سَرَاةَ كَهْلُهُمْ وَشَبَابُهُمْ تَفَلَّقَ عَنْهُمْ بَيْضَةُ الطَّائِرِ الصَّقْرِ قُصَيُّ الَّذِي عَادَى كِنَانَةَ كُلَّهَا وَرَابَطَ بَيْتَ اللَّهِ فِي الْعُسْرِ وَالْيُسْرِ فَإِنْ تَكُ غَالَتْهُ الْمَنَايَا وَصَرْفُهَا فَقَدْ عَاشَ مَيْمُونَ النَّقِيبَةِ وَالْأَمْرِ وَأَبْقَى رِجَالًا سَادَةً غَيْرَ عُزَّلٍ مَصَالِيتُ أَمْثَالَ الرُّدَيْنِيَّةِ السُّمْرِ أَبُو عُتْبَةَ الْمُلْقَى إلَيَّ حِبَاؤُهُ أَغَرُّ هِجَانُ اللَّوْنِ مِنْ نَفَرِ غُرٍّ وَحَمْزَةُ مِثْلُ الْبَدْرِ يَهْتَزُّ لِلنَّدَى نَقِيُّ الثِّيَابِ وَالذِّمَامِ مِنْ الْغَدْرِ وَعَبْدُ مَنَافٍ مَاجِدٌ ذُو حَفِيظَةٍ وَصُولٌ لِذِي الْقُرْبَى رَحِيمٌ بِذِي الصِّهْرِ كُهُولُهُمْ خَيْرُ الْكُهُولِ وَنَسْلُهُمْ كَنَسْلِ الْمُلُوكِ لَا تَبُورُ وَلَا تَحَرَّى مَتَى مَا تُلَاقِي مِنْهُمْ الدَّهْرَ نَاشِئًا تَجِدْهُ بِإِجْرِيَّا أَوَائِلِهِ بَجْرَى هُمْ مَلَئُوا الْبَطْحَاءَ مَجْدًا وَعِزَّةً إذَا اُسْتُبِقَ الْخَيْرَاتُ فِي سَالِفِ الْعَصْرِ وَفِيهِمْ بُنَاةٌ لِلْعُلَا وَعِمَارَةٌ وَعَبْدُ مَنَافٍ جَدُّهُمْ جَابِرُ الْكَسْرِ بِإِنْكَاحِ عَوْفٍ بِنْتَهُ لِيُجِيرَنَا مِنْ أَعْدَائِنَا إذْ أَسْلَمَتْنَا بَنُو فِهْرِ فَسِرْنَا تهامي الْبِلَادِ وَنَجْدَهَا بِأَمْنِهِ حَتَّى خَاضَتْ الْعِيرُ فِي الْبَحْرِ وَهُمْ حَضَرُوا وَالنَّاسُ بَادٍ فَرِيقُهُمْ وَلَيْسَ بِهَا إلَّا شُيُوخُ بَنِي عَمْرِو بَنَوْهَا دِيَارًا جَمَّةً وَطَوَوْا بِهَا بِئَارًا تَسُحُّ الْمَاءَ مِنْ ثَبَجِ بَحْرِ لَكَيْ يَشْرَبَ الْحُجَّاجُ مِنْهَا وَغَيْرُهُمْ إذَا ابْتَدَرُوهَا صُبْحَ تَابِعَةِ النَّحْرِ ثَلَاثَةُ أَيَّامٍ تَظَلُّ رِكَابُهُمْ مُخَيَّسَةً بَيْنَ الْأَخَاشِبِ وَالْحِجْرِ وَقِدْمًا غَنِيّنَا قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ حِقْبَةً وَلَا نَسْتَقِي إلَّا بِخُمَّ أَوْ الْحَفْرِ وَهُمْ يَغْفِرُونَ الذَّنْبَ يُنْقَمُ دُونَهُ وَيَعْفُونَ عَنْ قَوْلِ السَّفَاهَةِ وَالْهُجْرِ وَهُمْ جَمَعُوا حِلْفَ الْأَحَابِيشِ كلِّها وَهُمْ نَكَّلُوا عَنَّا غُوَاةَ بَنِي بَكْرِ فَخَارِجَ، إمَّا أَهْلكُنَّ فَلَا تَزَلْ لَهُمْ شَاكِرًا حَتَّى تُغَيَّبَ فِي الْقَبْرِ وَلَا تَنْسَ مَا أَسُدَى ابْنُ لُبْنَى فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ أَسْدَى يَدًا مَحْقُوقَةً مِنْكَ بِالشُّكْرِ وَأَنْتَ ابْنُ لُبْنَى مِنْ قُصَيٍّ إذَا انْتَمَوْا بِحَيْثُ انْتَهَى قَصْدُ الْفُؤَادِ مِنْ الصَّدْرِ وَأَنْتَ تَنَاوَلْتَ الْعُلَا فَجَمَعْتَهَا إلَى مَحْتِدٍ لِلْمَجْدِ ذِي ثَبَجِ جَسْرِ سَبَقْتَ وَفُتَّ الْقَوْمَ بَذْلًا وَنَائِلًا وَسُدْتُ وَلَيَدًا كُلَّ ذِي سُوْدُدِ غَمْرِ وَأُمُّكَ سِرٌّ مِنْ خُزَاعَةَ جَوْهَرِ إذَا حَصَّلَ الْأَنْسَابَ يَوْمًا ذَوُو الْخُبْرِ إلَى سَبَأِ الْأَبْطَالِ تُنَمَّى وَتَنْتَمِي فَأَكْرِمْ بِهَا مَنْسُوبَةً فِي ذُرَا الزُّهْرِ أَبُو شَمَرٍ مِنْهُمْ وَعَمْرُو بْنُ مَالِكٍ وَذُو جَدَنٍ مِنْ قَوْمِهَا وَأَبُو الْجَبْرِ وَأَسْعَدُ قَادَ النَّاسَ عِشْرِينَ حِجَّةً يُؤَيَّدُ فِي تِلْكَ الْمَوَاطِنِ بِالنَّصْرِ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: أُمُّكَ سِرٌّ مِنْ خُزَاعَةَ، يَعْنِي أَبَا لَهَبٍ، أُمُّهُ لُبْنَى بِنْتُ هَاجِرٍ الْخُزاَعِيِّ. وَقَوْلُهُ: بِإِجْرِيّا أَوَائِلُهُ عَنْ غَيْرِ ابْنِ إسْحَاقَ
Translation
✧ [The Elegy of Ḥudhayfah for ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib] Ibn Isḥāq said: Ḥudhayfah b. Ghānim, the brother of the Banū ʿAdī b. Kaʿb b. Luʾayy, said, weeping for ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. Hāshim b. ʿAbd Manāf, and mentioning his excellence and the excellence of Quṣayy over Quraysh, and the excellence of his descendants after him over them—that is, because he was seized for a fine of four thousand dirhams in Makkah, and he stood there, and Abū Lahab ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib passed by him and ransomed him: My two eyes, flow generously with tears upon the chest, And do not weary; may you be given the pouring rain of the downpour. And flow with tears and shed them every morning, The weeping of a man whom the calamity of time has not marred. (And pour and stream and shed as long as you remain alive, For a man of modesty among Quraysh and of protection.) For a man strong in powers, possessed of zeal, Beautiful of countenance, not ignoble and not babbling. For the noble, cheerful one, of ample reach and generosity, The spring of Luʾayy in drought and in hardship. For the best barefoot and sandaled one of Maʿadd, Generous in endeavors, good in nature and in origin. And the best of them in root and branch and source, And the most fortunate of them in honorable deeds and in remembrance. And the first of them in glory and forbearance and intelligence, And in excellence in the crushing disasters of the dust. For Shaybah of praise, whose face Would illuminate the darkness of night like the full moon. And the waterer of the pilgrims, then for the good of Hāshim And ʿAbd Manāf, that was the chief of Fihr. He filled in Zamzam near the Station, and so his watering-place became A source of pride over every possessor of pride. Let every captive in distress weep for him, And the family of Quṣayy, of the poor and the wealthy. His sons are chiefs, their elders and their youths; From them has hatched the egg of the falcon. Quṣayy, who opposed Kinānah entirely, And kept watch over the House of Allah in hardship and in ease. If death and its vicissitudes have taken him away, He lived fortunate in disposition and in command. And he left behind men, lords not defenseless, Fierce ones like Rudaynī spears of brown. Abū ʿUtbah, to whom his tent ropes are entrusted, Noble, pure of color, from a noble band. And Ḥamzah, like the full moon, who moves for generosity, Clean of garments and of the protection from treachery. And ʿAbd Manāf, noble, possessed of zeal, Keeping ties with the near of kin, merciful to the in-law. Their elders are the best of elders, and their offspring is Like the offspring of kings; it does not perish nor decline. Whenever you meet among them a young man of time, You find him following the course of his forerunners. They have filled the valley with glory and might When good things were competed for in the past age. Among them are builders of loftiness and ʿImārah, And ʿAbd Manāf their ancestor, mender of the break. By the marriage of ʿAwf to his daughter, so that he might protect us From our enemies when Banū Fihr abandoned us. So we traveled the lowlands of the lands and their highlands Under his protection, until the caravans waded into the sea. They were present while the people were in the desert, with only a portion [sedentary], And there were none there but the elders of Banū ʿAmr. They built many dwellings and dug in it Wells gushing water from the midst of a sea, So that the pilgrims and others might drink from them When they hastened to them in the morning of the day of sacrifice. For three days their riding camels remain Hobbled between al-Akhāshib and al-Ḥijr. And formerly we had been rich for a long time before that, And we did not draw water except from Khumm or al-Ḥafr. And they forgive the sin that is avenged besides it, And they pardon the word of foolishness and of obscenity. And they gathered the confederacy of all the Aḥābīsh, And they punished the transgressors of Banū Bakr on our behalf. So go forth, for if they perish, then never cease To be grateful to them until you are hidden in the grave. And do not forget what Ibn Lubnā did, for he Did a deed deserving of gratitude from you. And you are Ibn Lubnā from Quṣayy when they trace descent, To where the intention of the heart reaches from the chest. And you attained loftiness and gathered it To a root of glory, of broad and strong foundation. You preceded and surpassed the people in giving and bestowal, And you ruled as a child, surpassing every ruler of great abundance. And your mother is a secret of Khuzāʿah, a jewel, When the experts one day determine the lineages, To Sabaʾ of the heroes she is traced and belongs; So honor her as a relation among the heights of the shining ones. Abū Shamar is of them, and ʿAmr b. Mālik, And Dhū Jadan of her people, and Abū al-Jabr. And Asʿad led the people for twenty pilgrimages, Supported in those stations with victory. Ibn Hishām said: “Your mother is a secret of Khuzāʿah”—he means Abū Lahab; his mother is Lubnā bt. Hājir al-Khuzāʿī. And his saying “following the course of his forerunners” is from other than Ibn Isḥāq.
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