Sirat Ibn Hisham 237
al-Ghayṭala and what she related to the Banū Sahm
[ الْغَيْطَلَةُ وَمَا حَدَّثَتْ بِهِ بَنِي سَهْمٍ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ: إنَّ امْرَأَةً مِنْ بَنِي سَهْمٍ، يُقَالُ لَهَا الْغَيْطَلَةُ، كَانَتْ كَاهِنَةً فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، جَاءَهَا صَاحِبُهَا لَيْلَةً مِنْ اللَّيَالِي، فَانْقَضَّ تَحْتَهَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَدْرِ مَا أَدْرِ. يَوْمَ عَقْرٍ وَنَحْرٍ؛ فَقَالَتْ قُرَيْشٌ حَيْنَ بَلَغَهَا ذَلِكَ: مَا يُرِيدُ ؟ ثُمَّ جَاءَهَا لَيْلَةً أُخْرَى، فَانْقَضَّ تَحْتَهَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: شُعُوبُ مَا شُعُوبٌ، تُصْرَعُ فِيهِ كَعْبٌ لَجُوبُ. فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ ذَلِكَ قُرَيْشًا. قَالُوا: مَاذَا يُرِيدُ، إنَّ هَذَا لِأَمْرٍ هُوَ كَائِنٌ، فَانْظُرُوا مَا هُوَ ؟ فَمَا عَرَفُوهُ حَتَّى كَانَتْ وَقْعَةُ بَدْرٍ وَأُحُدٍ بِالشِّعْبِ، فَعَرَفُوا أَنَّهُ الَّذِي كَانَ جَاءَ بِهِ إلَى صَاحِبَتِهِ. [ نَسَبُ الْغَيْطَلَةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: الْغَيْطَلَةُ: مِنْ بَنِي مُرَّةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَاةَ بْنِ كِنَانَةَ، إخْوَةِ مُدْلِجِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ، وَهِيَ أُمُّ الْغَيَاطِلِ الَّذِينَ ذَكَرَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ فِي قَوْلِهِ:: لَقَدْ سَفُهَتْ أَحْلَامُ قَوْمٍ تَبَدَّلُوا بَنِي خَلَفٍ قَيْضًا بِنَا وَالْغَيَاطِلِ فَقِيلَ لِوَلَدِهَا: الْغَيَاطِلُ؛ وَهُمْ مِنْ بَنِي سَهْمِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ هُصَيْصٍ. وَهَذَا الْبَيْتُ فِي قَصِيدَةٍ لَهُ سَأَذْكُرُهَا فِي مَوْضِعِهَا إنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى
Translation
✧ Al-Ghayṭalah and what she foretold to the Banū Sahm Ibn Isḥāq said: One of the people of knowledge told me that a woman of the Banū Sahm, called al-Ghayṭalah, was a soothsayer in the Jāhiliyyah. Her companion came to her one night and swooped down beneath her, then said: 'Perceive what I perceive: a day of hamstringing and slaughtering.' So Quraysh said when that reached them: 'What does he intend?' Then he came to her another night and swooped down beneath her, then said: 'Shuʿūb, what a Shuʿūb! Therein will be thrown down Kaʿb, the deep-cleft.' When that reached Quraysh, they said: 'What does he intend? This is surely a matter that is to be; look to what it is.' But they did not know it until the battle of Badr and Uḥud at al-Shaʿb came about; then they knew that it was what he had brought to his mistress. The lineage of al-Ghayṭalah Ibn Hishām said: Al-Ghayṭalah was of the Banū Murrah b. ʿAbd Manāh b. Kinānah, brothers of Mudlij b. Murrah. She was the mother of al-Ghayāṭil, whom Abū Ṭālib mentioned in his saying: The dreams of a people who exchanged Banū Khalaf for us and al-Ghayāṭil have become foolish. Thus her children were called al-Ghayāṭil; they are of the Banū Sahm b. ʿAmr b. Huṣayṣ. This verse is in a qaṣīdah of his which I shall mention in its proper place, if God Almighty wills.
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