Sirat Ibn Hisham 42
The history of the nasiʾ among the Arabs
[ تَارِيخُ النَّسْءِ عِنْدَ الْعَرَبِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ أَوَّلُ مَنْ نَسَأَ الشُّهُورَ عَلَى الْعَرَبِ فَأَحَلَّتْ مِنْهَا مَا أُحِلَّ، وَحَرَّمَتْ مِنْهَا مَا حَرَّمَ القَلَمَّسُ، وَهُوَ حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ بْنِ فُقَيْمِ بْنِ عَدِيِّ بْنِ عَامِرِ بْنِ ثَعْلَبَةَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ مَالِكِ بْنِ كِنَانَةَ بْنِ خُزَيْمَةَ. ثُمَّ قَامَ بَعْدَهُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ ابْنُهُ ( عَبَّادُ ) بْنُ حُذَيْفَةَ، ثُمَّ قَامَ بَعْدَ عَبَّادٍ: قَلَعُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍ، ثُمَّ قَامَ بَعْدَ قَلَعٍ: أُمَيَّةُ بْنُ قَلَعٍ، ثُمَّ قَامَ بَعْدَ أُمَيَّةَ: عَوْفُ بْنُ أُمَيَّةَ، ثُمَّ قَامَ بَعْدَ عَوْفٍ أَبُو ثُمَامَةَ جُنَادَةُ بْنُ عَوْفٍ، وَكَانَ آخِرَهُمْ، وَعَلَيْهِ قَامَ الْإِسْلَامُ. وَكَانَتْ الْعَرَبُ إذَا فَرَغَتْ مِنْ حَجِّهَا اجْتَمَعَتْ إلَيْهِ، فَحَرَّمَ الْأَشْهُرَ الْحُرُمَ الْأَرْبَعَةَ: رَجَبًا، وَذَا الْقَعْدَةِ، وَذَا الْحِجَّةِ، وَالْمُحَرَّمَ. فَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يُحِلَّ مِنْهَا شَيْئًا أَحَلَّ الْمُحَرَّمَ فَأَحَلُّوهُ، وَحَرَّمَ مَكَانَهُ صَفَرَ فَحَرَّمُوهُ، لِيُوَاطِئُوا عِدَّةَ الْأَرْبَعَةِ الْأَشْهُرِ الْحُرُمِ. فَإِذَا أَرَادُوا الصَّدَرَ قَامَ فِيهِمْ فَقَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ إنِّي قَدْ أَحْلَلْتُ لَكَ أَحَدَ الصَّفَرَيْنِ، الصَّفَرَ الْأَوَّلَ، وَنَسَّأَتْ الْآخَرَ لِلْعَامِ الْمُقْبِلِ فَقَالَ فِي ذَلِكَ عُمَيْرُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ ( جِذْلُ الطَّعَّانِ ) أَحَدُ بَنِي فِرَاسِ بْنِ غُنْمِ ( بْنِ ثَعْلَبَةَ ) بْنِ مَالِكِ بْنِ كِنَانَةَ، يَفْخَرُ بِالنَّسَأَةِ عَلَى الْعَرَبِ:: لَقَدْ عَلِمَتْ مَعَدُّ أَنَّ قَوْمِي كِرَامُ النَّاسِ أَنَّ لَهُمْ كِرَامَا فَأَيُّ النَّاسِ فَاتُونَا بِوِتْرٍ وَأَيُّ النَّاسِ لَمْ نُعْلِكْ لِجَامَا أَلَسْنَا النَّاسِئِينَ عَلَى مَعَدٍّ شُهُورَ الْحِلِّ نَجْعَلُهَا حَرَامَا قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: أَوَّلُ الْأَشْهُرِ الْحُرُمِ الْمُحَرَّمُ
Translation
✧ [The history of nas’ among the Arabs] Ibn Isḥāq said: The first to intercalate the months among the Arabs, by which they made lawful of them what was made lawful and made unlawful of them what was made unlawful, was al-Qalammas, who is Ḥudhayfah b. ʿAbd b. Fuqaym b. ʿAdī b. ʿĀmir b. Thaʿlabah b. al-Ḥārith b. Mālik b. Kinānah b. Khuzaymah. Then after him his son ʿAbbād b. Ḥudhayfah stood over that. Then after ʿAbbād stood Qalaʿ b. ʿAbbād. Then after Qalaʿ stood Umayyah b. Qalaʿ. Then after Umayyah stood ʿAwf b. Umayyah. Then after ʿAwf stood Abū Thumāmah Junādah b. ʿAwf, and he was the last of them, and upon him Islam arose. When the Arabs finished their pilgrimage, they would gather to him, and he would declare the four sacred months sacred: Rajab, Dhū al-Qaʿdah, Dhū al-Ḥijjah, and al-Muḥarram. If he wanted to make lawful something of them, he made al-Muḥarram lawful, so they made it lawful, and he made Ṣafar sacred in its place, so they made it sacred, in order to keep the number of the four sacred months. When they wanted to depart, he would stand among them and say: O God, I have made lawful for You one of the two Ṣafars, the first Ṣafar, and I have postponed the other for the coming year. About that ʿUmayr b. Qays (Jidhl al-Ṭaʿʿān), one of the Banū Firās b. Ghunm (b. Thaʿlabah) b. Mālik b. Kinānah, said, boasting of the intercalators over the Arabs: Maʿadd has known that my people are the noblest of people, that they have nobility. So which of the people can surpass us in vengeance, and which of the people have we not bridled with a bit? Are we not the intercalators over Maʿadd, making the months of the profane sacred? Ibn Hishām said: The first of the sacred months is al-Muḥarram.
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