Sirat Ibn Hisham 36
The account of Daws Dhū Thaʿlabān and the beginning of Abyssinian rule
[ شِعْرٌ فِي دَوْسٍ وَمَا كَانَ مِنْهُ ] فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْيَمَنِ - وَهُوَ يَذْكُرُ مَا سَاقَ إلَيْهِمْ دَوْسٌ مِنْ أَمْرِ الْحَبَشَةِ: لَا كَدَوْسٍ وَلَا كَأَعْلَاقِ رَحْلِهِ فَهِيَ مَثَلٌ بِالْيَمَنِ إلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ، وَقَالَ ذُو جَدَنٍ الْحِمْيَرِيُّ: هَوْنكِ لَيْسَ يَرُدُّ الدَّمْعُ مَا فَاتَا لَا تَهْلِكِي أَسَفًا فِي إثْرِ مَنْ مَاتَا أَبَعْدَ بَيْنُونَ لَا عَيْنٌ وَلَا أَثَرٌ وَبَعْدَ سِلْحِينَ يَبْنِي النَّاسُ أَبْيَاتَا بَيْنُونُ وَسِلْحِينُ وَغُمْدَانُ: مِنْ حُصُونِ الْيَمَنِ الَّتِي هَدَمَهَا أَرْيَاطُ. وَلَمْ يَكُنْ فِي النَّاسِ مِثْلُهَا. وَقَالَ ذُو جَدَنٍ أَيْضًا: دَعِينِي لَا أَبَا لَكَ لَنْ تُطِيقِي لِحَاكِ اللَّهِ قَدْ أَنْزَفْتِ رِيقِي لَدَيَّ عَزْفُ الْقِيَانِ إذْ انْتَشَيْنَا وَإِذْ نُسْقَى مِنْ الْخَمْرِ الرَّحِيقِ وَشُرْبُ الْخَمْرِ لَيْسَ عَلَيَّ عَارًا إذَا لَمْ يَشْكُنِي فِيهَا رَفِيقِي فَإِنَّ الْمَوْتَ لَا يَنْهَاهُ نَاهٍ وَلَوْ شَرِبَ الشِّفَاءَ مَعَ النُّشُوقِ وَلَا مُتَرَهِّبٍ فِي أُسْطُوَانٍ يُنَاطِحُ جُدْرَهُ بَيْضُ الْأَنُوقِ وغُمْدَانُ الَّذِي حُدِّثْتِ عَنْهُ بَنَوْهُ مُسَمَّكا فِي رَأْسِ نِيقِ بِمَنْهَمَةِ وَأَسْفَلُهُ جُرُونٌ وَحُرُّ الْمَوْحَلِ اللَّثَقِ الزَّلِيقِ مَصَابِيحُ السَّلِيطِ تَلُوحُ فِيهِ إذَا يُمْسِي كَتَوْمَاضِ الْبُرُوقِ وَنَخْلَتُهُ الَّتِي غُرِسَتْ إلَيْهِ يَكَادُ الْيُسْرُ يَهْصِرُ بِالْعُذُوقِ فَأَصْبَحَ بَعْدَ جِدَّتِهِ رَمَادًا وَغَيَّرَ حُسْنَهُ لَهَبُ الْحَرِيقِ وَأَسْلَمَ ذُو نُوَاسٍ مُسْتَكِينًا وَحَذَّرَ قَوْمَهُ ضَنْكَ الْمَضِيقِ وَقَالَ ابْنُ الذِّئْبَةِ الثَّقَفِيُّ فِي ذَلِكَ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: الذِّئْبَةُ أُمُّهُ، وَاسْمُهُ رَبِيعَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ يَالَيْلُ بْنِ سَالِمِ بْنِ مَالِكِ بْنِ حُطَيْطِ بْنِ جُشَمَ بْنِ قَسِيِّ: لَعَمْرُكَ مَا لِلْفَتَى مِنْ مَفَرٍّ مَعَ الْمَوْتِ يَلْحَقُهُ والكِبَرْ لَعُمْرُكَ مَا لِلْفَتَى صُحْرَةٌ لَعُمْرُكَ مَا إنْ لَهُ مِنْ وَزَرْ أَبَعْدَ قَبَائِلَ مِنْ حِمْيَرَ أُبِيدُوا صَبَاحًا بِذَاتِ الْعَبَرْ بِأَلْفِ أُلُوفٍ وحُرَّابَةٌ كَمِثْلِ السَّمَاءِ قُبَيْلَ الْمَطَرْ يُصِمُّ صِيَاحُهُمْ الْمُقْرَبَاتِ وَيَنْفُونَ مَنْ قَاتَلُوا بِالذَّفَرْ سَعَالِيَ مِثْلُ عَدِيدِ التُّرَا بِ تَيْبَسُ مِنْهُمْ رِطَابُ الشَّجَرْ وَقَالَ عَمْرُو بْنُ مَعْدِيكَرِبٍ الزُّبَيْدِيُّ فِي شَيْءٍ كَانَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ قَيْسِ بْنِ مَكْشوُحٍ الْمُرَادِيَّ، فَبَلَغَهُ أَنَّهُ يَتَوَعَّدُهُ، فَقَالَ يَذْكُرُ حِمْيَرَ وَعِزَّهَا، وَمَا زَالَ مِنْ مُلْكِهَا عَنْهَا: أَتُوعِدُنِي كَأَنَّكَ ذُو رُعَيْنٍ بِأَفْضَلِ عِيشَةٍ، أَوْ ذُو نُوَاسِ وكائنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكَ مِنْ نَعِيمٍ وَمُلْكٍ ثَابِتٍ فِي النَّاسِ رَاسِي قَدِيمٍ عَهْدُهُ مِنْ عَهْدِ عَادٍ عَظِيمٍ قَاهِرِ الْجَبَرُوتِ قَاسِي فَأَمْسَى أَهْلُهُ بَادُوا وَأَمْسَى يُحَوَّلُ مِنْ أُنَاسٍ فِي أُنَاسِ
Translation
✧ [Poetry about Daws and what came from him] A man of the people of Yemen said, mentioning what Daws brought upon them of the affair of the Abyssinians: "There is none like Daws and none like the saddle-gear of his mount"—and it is a proverb in Yemen to this day. Dhū Jadan al-Ḥimyarī said: Gently! Tears do not bring back what has passed; do not destroy yourself in grief for one who has died. After Baynūn—no eye remains and no trace— and after Silḥīn, will people build any houses? Baynūn, Silḥīn and Ghumdān were among the fortresses of Yemen that Aryāṭ destroyed, and there was nothing like them among people. Dhū Jadan also said: Leave me alone—may you have no father—you will never manage it. By God's keeping, you have drained my spittle. I have the music of the singing-girls when we are intoxicated and when we are given to drink of the pure wine; and drinking wine is no shame upon me so long as no companion complains of me in it. For death no forbidder can forbid, even if one drinks the antidote with the snuff; and no monk in a pillar, whose walls the eggs of the vulture strike, [is safe]. Ghumdān, of which you have been told, they built raised high upon a mountain peak, with a well-hewn [summit], its lower part a wine-vat, and smooth, slippery, moistened clay; the lamps of olive oil gleam in it when evening comes like the flashing of lightning; and its palm tree that was planted beside it— the rope almost bends the branches down. Then it became, after its newness, ashes, and the flame of the fire altered its beauty. Dhū Nuwās submitted, humbled, and warned his people of the distress of the narrow pass. Ibn al-Dhiʾbah al-Thaqafī said concerning that. Ibn Hishām said: al-Dhiʾbah was his mother, and his name was Rabīʿah b. ʿAbd Yālīl b. Sālim b. Mālik b. Ḥuṭayṭ b. Jusham b. Qasiyy: By your life, the young man has no escape from death when it overtakes him, and old age. By your life, the young man has no open plain; by your life, he has no refuge. After tribes of Ḥimyar were destroyed in the morning at Dhāt al-ʿAbar, with a thousand thousands and Ḥurrābah, like the sky just before rain; their shouting deafens the prized horses, and they drive off those they fight with the stench; ghouls like the number of the dust— the fresh branches of the trees wither because of them. ʿAmr b. Maʿdīkarib al-Zubaydī said about something that occurred between him and Qays b. Makshūḥ al-Murādī, when it reached him that Qays was threatening him, and he mentioned Ḥimyar and its might and how its sovereignty departed from it: Do you threaten me, as if you were Dhū Ruʿayn with the most excellent of livelihoods, or Dhū Nuwās? How many before you were there of ease and kingship, firm and fixed among people, ancient in its covenant from the covenant of ʿĀd, great, subduing tyranny, harsh? Then its people perished, and it came to be passed from one people to another.
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