Sirat Ibn Hisham 256
Zayd b. ʿAmr, what he attained, and something about him
[ شِعْرُ زَيْدٍ فِي عِتَابَ زَوْجَتِهِ عَلَى اتِّفَاقِهَا مَعَ الْخَطَّابِ فِي مُعَاكَسَتِهِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ زَيْدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو قَدْ أَجْمَعَ الْخُرُوجَ مِنْ مَكَّةَ لِيَضْرِبَ فِي الْأَرْضِ يَطْلُبُ الْحَنِيفِيَّةَ دِينَ إبْرَاهِيمَ ﷺ، فَكَانَتْ صَفِيَّةُ بِنْتُ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ كَلَّمَا رَأَتْهُ قَدْ تَهَيَّأَ لِلْخُرُوجِ وَأَرَادَهُ آذَنَتْ بِهِ الْخَطَّابَ بْنَ نُفَيْلٍ، وَكَانَ الْخَطَّابُ بْنُ نُفَيْلٍ عَمَّهُ وَأَخَاهُ لِأُمِّهِ، وَكَانَ يُعَاتِبُهُ عَلَى فِرَاقِ دِينِ قَوْمِهِ، وَكَانَ الْخَطَّابُ قَدْ وَكَّلَ صَفِيَّةَ بِهِ، وَقَالَ: إذَا رَأَيْتِيهِ قَدْ هَمَّ بِأَمْرٍ فَآذِنِينِي بِهِ - فَقَالَ زَيْدٌ:: لَا تَحْبِسِينِي فِي الْهَوَا نِ صَفِيُّ مَا دَابِي وَدَابُهُ إنِّي إذَا خِفْتُ الْهَوَا نَ مُشَيَّعٌ ذُلُلَ رِكَابِهِ دُعْمُوصُ أَبْوَابَ الْمُلُو كِ وَجَائِبٌ لِلْخِرَقِ نَابَهُ قَطَّاعُ أَسْبَابٍ تَذِ لُّ بِغَيْرِ أَقْرَانٍ صِعَابُهْ وَإِنَّمَا أَخَذَ الْهَوَا نُ الْعِيرَ إذْ يُوهَى إهَابُهْ وَيَقُولُ إنِّي لَا أَذِّلُ بِصَكِّ جَنْبَيْهِ صِلَابُهْ وَأَخِي ابْنُ أُمِّي ثُمَّ عَمْ مِي لَا يُوَاتِينِي خِطَابُهُ وَإِذَا يُعَاتِبُنِي بِسُوء قُلْتُ أَعْيَانِي جَوَابُهُ وَلَوْ أَشَاءَ لَقُلْتُ مَا عِنْدِي مَفَاتِحُهُ وَبَابُهُ
Translation
✧ [Zayd’s poetry in rebuking his wife for colluding with al-Khaṭṭāb in opposing him] Ibn Isḥāq said: Zayd b. ʿAmr had resolved to leave Makkah and roam the earth in search of the ḥanīfiyyah, the religion of Abraham ﷺ. So Ṣafiyyah bt. al-Ḥaḍramī, whenever she saw him preparing to depart or intending it, would inform al-Khaṭṭāb b. Nufayl. Al-Khaṭṭāb b. Nufayl was his paternal uncle and his maternal brother, and he would reproach him for abandoning the religion of his people. Al-Khaṭṭāb had charged Ṣafiyyah with watching him, and said: “If you see him intending something, inform me of it.” Zayd said: Do not detain me in humiliation, Ṣafiyyah; my striving and his striving are not the same. When I fear humiliation, I am escorted by the humbled mounts of his riding camels, a worm of the doors of kings, and a splitter of the worn-out hides with his canine tooth, a severer of bonds by which difficult matters are humbled without rivals. Humiliation seizes the caravan only when its hide is weakened. He says: I am not humbled by the striking of his two flanks; its hard parts protect me. And my brother, son of my mother, then my paternal uncle—his address does not accord with me. When he reproaches me with evil, I say: I am too weary to answer him. If I wished, I would say what I have; its keys and its door.
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