Sirat Ibn Hisham 311
The war of Dāḥis
وَهَذَا الْبَيْتُ فِي قَصِيدَةٍ لَهُ. فَوَقَعَتْ الْحَرْبُ بَيْنَ عَبْسٍ وَفَزَارَةَ، فَقُتِلَ حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ بَدْرٍ وَأَخُوهُ حَمَلُ بْنُ بَدْرٍ، فَقَالَ قَيْسُ بْنُ زُهَيْرِ بْنِ جَذِيمَةَ يَرْثِي حُذَيْفَةَ، وَجَزِعَ عَلَيْهِ:: كَمْ فَارِسٍ يُدْعَى وَلَيْسَ بِفَارِسٍ وَعَلَى الْهَبَاءَةِ فَارِسٌ ذُو مَصْدَقِ فَابْكُوا حُذَيْفَةَ لَنْ تُرَثُّوا مِثْلَهُ حَتَّى تَبِيدَ قَبَائِلٌ لَمْ تُخْلَقْ وَهَذَانِ الْبَيْتَانِ فِي أَبْيَاتٍ لَهُ. وَقَالَ قَيْسُ ( بْنُ ) زُهَيْرٍ:: عَلَى أَنَّ الْفَتَى حَمَلَ بْنَ بَدْرٍ بَغَى وَالظُّلْمُ مَرْتَعُهُ وَخِيمُ وَهَذَا الْبَيْتُ فِي أَبْيَاتٍ لَهُ. وَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ زُهَيْرٍ أَخُو قَيْسِ بْنِ زُهَيْرٍ:: تَرَكْتُ عَلَى الْهَبَاءَةِ غَيْرَ فَخْرٍ حُذَيْفَةُ عِنْدَهُ قَصْدُ الْعَوَالِي وَهَذَا الْبَيْتُ فِي أَبْيَاتٍ لَهُ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ: أَرْسَلَ قَيْسٌ دَاحِسًا وَالْغَبْرَاءَ، وَأَرْسَلَ حُذَيْفَةُ الْخَطَّارَ وَالْحَنْفَاءَ، وَالْأَوَّلُ أَصَحُّ الْحَدِيثَيْنِ. وَهُوَ حَدِيثٌ طَوِيلٌ مَنَعَنِي مِنْ اسْتِقْصَائِهِ قَطْعُهُ حَدِيثَ سِيرَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ.
Translation
✧ And this verse is in a poem of his. Then the war took place between ʿAbs and Fazārah, and Ḥudhayfah b. Badr and his brother Ḥamal b. Badr were killed. Then Qays b. Zuhayr b. Jadhīmah said, elegizing Ḥudhayfah, and he grieved over him: How many a horseman is called one, yet is no horseman, While upon al-Habāʾah is a horseman true in valor. So weep for Ḥudhayfah, you shall never be consoled for his like, Until tribes not yet created pass away. And these two verses are in some verses of his. And Qays b. Zuhayr said: Because the young man Ḥamal b. Badr acted wrongfully, And wrongdoing’s pasture is harmful. And this verse is in some verses of his. And al-Ḥārith b. Zuhayr, the brother of Qays b. Zuhayr, said: I left upon al-Habāʾah, without boasting, Ḥudhayfah, by whom were the shafts of the tall spears. And this verse is in some verses of his. Ibn Hishām said: And it is said: Qays sent Dāḥis and al-Ghabrāʾ, and Ḥudhayfah sent al-Khaṭṭār and al-Ḥanfāʾ, but the former is the more authentic of the two accounts. And it is a long account, which I have been prevented from pursuing fully because it would interrupt the account of the life of the Messenger of God ﷺ.
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