Sirat Ibn Hisham 206
Maṭrūd's elegy for ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib and the Banū ʿAbd Manāf
[ رِثَاءُ مَطْرُودٍ لِعَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ وبني عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ مَطْرُودُ بْنُ كَعْبٍ الْخُزاَعِيُّ يَبْكِي عَبْدَ الْمُطَّلِبِ وبَني عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ:: يَا أَيُّهَا الرَّجُلُ الْمُحَوِّلُ رَحْلَهُ هَلَّا سَأَلْتَ عَنْ آلِ عَبْدِ مَنَافِ هَبَلَتْكَ أُمُّكَ لَوْ حَلَلْتَ بِدَارِهِمْ ضَمِنُوكَ مِنْ جُرْمٍ وَمِنْ إقْرَافِ الْخَالِطِينَ غَنِيَّهُمْ بِفَقِيرِهِمْ حَتَّى يَعُودَ فَقِيرُهُمْ كَالْكَافِي الْمُنْعِمِينَ إذَا النُّجُومُ تَغَيَّرَتْ وَالظَّاعِنِينَ لِرِحْلَةِ الْإِيلَافِ وَالْمُطْعِمِينَ إذَا الرِّيَاحُ تَنَاوَحَتْ حَتَّى تَغِيبَ الشَّمْسُ فِي الرَّجَّافِ إمَّا هَلَكْتَ أَبَا الْفِعَالِ فَمَا جَرَى مِنْ فَوْقِ مِثْلِكَ عَقْدُ ذَاتِ نِطَافِ إلَّا أَبِيكَ أَخِي الْمَكَارِمِ وَحْدَهُ وَالْفَيْضِ مُطَّلِبٍ أَبِي الْأَضْيَافِ
Translation
✧ Ibn Isḥāq said: Maṭrūd b. Kaʿb al-Khuzāʿī said, weeping for ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib and the Banū ʿAbd Manāf: O you man who is moving his saddle, why did you not ask about the family of ʿAbd Manāf? May your mother be bereft of you! Had you alighted at their abode, they would have protected you from crime and from disgrace. They mingle their rich with their poor, until their poor becomes like the sufficient one; They are gracious when the stars change, and they set out for the journey of the covenant; They feed when the winds strive together, until the sun sets in the trembling; Indeed, if you have perished, O father of deeds, no knot of a woman with a string has ever run above the like of you, Except your father, the brother of noble qualities, alone, and the overflowing Muṭṭalib, father of guests.
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