Sirat Ibn Hisham 25
Something of Tubban's career
[ رئَامٌ وَمَا صَارَ إلَيْهِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ رِئَامٌ بَيْتًا لَهُمْ يُعَظِّمُونَهُ، وَيَنْحَرُونَ عِنْدَهُ، وَيَكَلَّمُونَ ( مِنْهُ ) إذْ كَانُوا عَلَى شِرْكِهِمْ ؟ فَقَالَ الْحَبْرَانِ لِتُبَّعِ: إنَّمَا هُوَ شَيْطَانٌ يَفْتِنُهُمْ بِذَلِكَ فَخَلِّ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَهُ، قَالَ: فَشَأْنُكُمَا بِهِ، فَاسْتَخْرَجَا مِنْهُ - فِيمَا يَزْعُمُ أَهْلُ الْيَمَنِ - كَلْبًا أَسْوَدَ فَذَبَحَاهُ، ثُمَّ هَدَمَا ذَلِكَ الْبَيْتَ فَبَقَايَاهُ الْيَوْمَ - كَمَا ذُكِرَ لِي - بِهَا آثَارُ الدِّمَاءِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ تُهْرَاقُ عَلَيْهِ. مُلْكُ ابْنِهِ حَسَّانَ بْنِ تُبَّانَ وَقَتْلُ عَمْرٍو أَخِيهِ لَهُ [ سَبَبُ قَتْلِهِ ] فَلَمَّا مَلَكَ ابْنُهُ حَسَّانُ بْنُ تُبَّانَ أَسْعَدَ أَبِي كَرِبٍ سَارَ بِأَهْلِ الْيَمَنِ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَطَأَ بِهِمْ أَرْضَ الْعَرَبِ وَأَرْضَ الْأَعَاجِمِ، حَتَّى إذَا كَانُوا بِبَعْضِ أَرْضِ الْعِرَاقِ - قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: بالَبحريْنِ فِيمَا ذَكَرَ لِي بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ - كَرِهَتْ حِمْيَرُ وَقَبَائِلُ الْيَمَنِ الْمَسِيرَ مَعَهُ، وَأَرَادُوا الرَّجْعَةَ إلَى بِلَادِهِمْ وَأَهْلِهِمْ، فَكَلَّمُوا أَخًا لَهُ يُقَالُ لَهُ عَمْرٌو، وَكَانَ مَعَهُ فِي جَيْشِهِ، فَقَالُوا لَهُ: اُقْتُلْ أَخَاكَ حَسَّانَ وَنُمَلِّكُكَ عَلَيْنَا، وَتَرْجِعُ بِنَا إلَى بِلَادِنَا، فَأَجَابَهُمْ. فَاجْتَمَعَتْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ إلَّا ذَا رُعَيْنٍ الْحِمْيَرِيُّ فَإِنَّهُ نَهَاهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَلَمْ يَقْبَلْ مِنْهُ، فَقَالَ ذُو رُعَيْنٍ: أَلَا مَنْ يَشْتَرِي سَهْرًا بِنَوْمِ سَعِيدٌ مَنْ يَبِيتُ قَرِيرَ عَيْنِ فَأَمَّا حِمْيَرُ غَدَرَتْ وَخَانَتْ فَمَعْذِرَةُ الْإِلَهِ لَذِي رُعَيْنِ ثُمَّ كَتَبَهُمَا فِي رُقْعَةٍ، وَخَتَمَ عَلَيْهَا، ثُمَّ أَتَى بِهَا عَمْرًا فَقَالَ لَهُ: ضَعْ لِي هَذَا الْكِتَابَ عِنْدَكَ، فَفَعَلَ، تَمَّ قَتَلَ عَمْرٌو أَخَاهُ حَسَّانَ، وَرَجَعَ بِمَنْ مَعَهُ إلَى الْيَمَنِ؛ فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ حِمْيَرَ: لَاهِ عَيْنَا الَّذِي رَأَى مِثْلَ حَسَّا نَ قَتِيلًا فِي سَالِفِ الْأَحْقَابِ قَتَلَتْهُ مَقاوِلٌ خَشْيَةَ الْحَبْسِ غَدَاةً قَالُوا: لَبَابِ لَبَابِ مَيْتُكُمْ خَيْرُنَا وَحَيُّكُمْ رَبٌّ عَلَيْنَا وَكُلُّكُمْ أَرْبَابِي قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَوْلُهُ لَبَابِ لَبَابِ: لا بَأْسَ لَا بَأْسَ، بِلُغَةِ حِمْيَرَ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُرْوَى: لِبَابِ لِبَابِ
Translation
✧ [Riʾām and what it became to be] Ibn Isḥāq said: Riʾām was a house of theirs which they venerated, at which they sacrificed, and from which they were addressed while they were upon their polytheism. The two rabbis said to Tubbaʿ: “It is only a devil that tempts them with that, so leave us alone with it.” He said: “Your affair is with it.” So they extracted from it—as the people of Yemen claim—a black dog and slaughtered it, then they demolished that house. Its remnants today—as was mentioned to me—have upon them traces of the blood that used to be shed upon it. The reign of his son Ḥassān b. Tibbān and the killing of him by his brother ʿAmr [the reason for his killing] When his son Ḥassān b. Tibbān Asʿad Abī Karib became king, he marched with the people of Yemen, wanting to tread with them through the land of the Arabs and the land of the non-Arabs, until when they were in part of the land of Iraq—Ibn Hishām said: in al-Baḥrayn, as some of the people of knowledge mentioned to me—Ḥimyar and the tribes of Yemen disliked marching with him and wanted to return to their lands and their families. They spoke to a brother of his called ʿAmr, who was with him in his army, and said to him: “Kill your brother Ḥassān and we will make you king over us, and you will return us to our lands.” He answered them. So they agreed upon that, except Dhū Ruʿayn al-Ḥimyarī, for he forbade him from that but he did not accept it from him. Dhū Ruʿayn said: “Will no one buy sleeplessness for sleep? Happy is he who passes the night with a cool eye. As for Ḥimyar, they betrayed and were treacherous, so the excuse of the God is for Dhū Ruʿayn.” Then he wrote the two verses on a slip, sealed it, and brought it to ʿAmr, saying to him: “Keep this writing for me with you.” He did so. Then ʿAmr killed his brother Ḥassān and returned with those who were with him to Yemen. A man of Ḥimyar said: “Indeed, the eye of him who saw the like of Ḥassān slain in ages past is delighted. The chieftains killed him fearing imprisonment, on the morning they said: ‘Labāb, labāb!’ Your dead is the best of us, and your living is a lord over us, and all of you are my lords.” Ibn Isḥāq said: His saying “labāb labāb” means “no harm, no harm” in the language of Ḥimyar. Ibn Hishām said: It is also transmitted as “libāb libāb.”
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