Sirat Ibn Hisham 310
The war of Dāḥis
[ حَرْبٌ دَاحِسً ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَأَمَّا قَوْلُهُ: أَلَمْ تَعْلَمُوا مَا كَانَ فِي حَرْبِ دَاحِسٍ فَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ النَّحَوِيُّ: أَنَّ دَاحِسًا فَرَسٌ كَانَ لِقَيْسِ بْنِ زُهَيْرِ بْنِ جَذِيمَةَ بْنِ رَوَاحَةَ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ مَازِنِ بْنِ قُطَيْعَةَ بْنِ عَبْسِ بْنِ بَغِيضِ بْنِ رَيْثِ بْنِ غَطَفَانَ؛ أَجْرَاهُ مَعَ فَرَسٍ لِحُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ بَدْرِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ جُؤَيَّةَ بْنِ لَوْذَانِ بْنِ ثَعْلَبَةَ بْنِ عَدِيِّ بْنِ فَزَارَةَ بْنِ ذُبْيَانَ بْنِ بَغِيضِ بْنِ رَيْثِ بْنِ غَطَفَانَ، يُقَالُ لَهَا: الْغَبْرَاءُ. فَدَسَّ حُذَيْفَةُ قَوْمًا وَأَمَرَهُمْ أَنْ يَضْرِبُوا وَجْهَ دَاحِسٍ إنْ رَأَوْهُ قَدْ جَاءَ سَابِقًا، فَجَاءَ دَاحِسٌ سَابِقًا فَضَرَبُوا وَجْهَهُ، وَجَاءَتْ الْغَبْرَاءُ. فَلَمَّا جَاءَ فَارِسُ دَاحِسٍ أَخْبَرَ قَيْسًا الْخَبَرَ، فَوَثَبَ أَخُوهُ مَالِكُ بْنُ زُهَيْرٍ فَلَطَمَ وَجْهَ الْغَبْرَاءِ، فَقَامَ حَمَلُ بْنُ بَدْرٍ فَلَطَمَ مَالِكًا. ثُمَّ إنَّ أَبَا الْجُنَيْدِبِ الْعَبْسِيَّ لَقِيَ عَوْفَ بْنَ حُذَيْفَةَ فَقَتَلَهُ، ثُمَّ لَقِيَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي فَزَارَةَ مَالِكًا فَقَتَلَهُ، فَقَالَ حَمَلُ بْنُ بَدْرٍ أَخُو حُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ بَدْرٍ:: قَتَلْنَا بِعَوْفٍ مَالِكًا وَهُوَ ثَأْرُنَا فَإِنْ تَطْلُبُوا مِنَّا سِوَى الْحَقِّ تَنْدَمُوا وَهَذَا الْبَيْتُ فِي أَبْيَاتٍ لَهُ. وَقَالَ الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ الْعَبْسِيُّ:: أَفَبَعْدَ مَقْتَلِ مَالِكِ بْنِ زُهَيْرٍ تَرْجُو النِّسَاءُ عَوَاقِبَ الْأَطْهَارِ
Translation
✧ Ibn Hishām said: As for his saying, “Did you not know what occurred in the war of Dāḥis,” Abū ʿUbaydah al-Naḥwī narrated to me that Dāḥis was a horse belonging to Qays b. Zuhayr b. Jadhīmah b. Rawāḥah b. Rabīʿah b. al-Ḥārith b. Māzin b. Quṭayʿah b. ʿAbs b. Baghīḍ b. Rayth b. Ghaṭafān. He raced it against a horse of Ḥudhayfah b. Badr b. ʿAmr b. Zayd b. Juʾayyah b. Lawdhān b. Thaʿlabah b. ʿAdī b. Fazārah b. Dhubyān b. Baghīḍ b. Rayth b. Ghaṭafān, called al-Ghabrāʾ. Ḥudhayfah secretly dispatched a group and ordered them to strike Dāḥis’s face if they saw him come in as the winner. Dāḥis came in as the winner, so they struck his face, and al-Ghabrāʾ came. When Dāḥis’s rider came, he told Qays the news. His brother Mālik b. Zuhayr leapt up and slapped the face of al-Ghabrāʾ. Ḥamal b. Badr stood up and slapped Mālik. Then Abū al-Junaydib al-ʿAbsī met ʿAwf b. Ḥudhayfah and killed him. Then a man from Banū Fazārah met Mālik and killed him. Ḥamal b. Badr, the brother of Ḥudhayfah b. Badr, said: “We killed Mālik in retaliation for ʿAwf, and he is our blood-revenge; If you seek from us anything other than the right, you will regret it.” This verse is among verses of his. Al-Rabīʿ b. Ziyād al-ʿAbsī said: “After the killing of Mālik b. Zuhayr, Do women still hope for the outcomes of the pure?”
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