Sirat Ibn Hisham 521
The names of the twelve nuqabāʾ and the completion of the account of al-ʿAqabah
[ شِعْرُ كَعْبٍ فِي حَصْرِ النُّقَبَاءِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَأَهْلُ الْعِلْمِ يَعُدُّونَ فِيهِمْ أَبَا الْهَيْثَمِ بْنَ التَّيِّهَانِ، وَلَا يَعُدُّونَ رِفَاعَةَ. وَقَالَ كَعْبُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ يَذْكُرُهُمْ، فِيمَا أَنْشَدَنِي أَبُو زَيْدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ:: أَبْلِغْ أُبَيًّا أَنَّهُ فَالَ رَأْيُهُ وَحَانَ غَدَاةَ الشِّعْبِ وَالْحَيْنُ وَاقِعُ أَبَى اللَّهُ مَا مَنَّتْكَ نَفْسُكَ إنَّهُ بِمِرْصَادِ أَمْرِ النَّاسِ رَاءٍ وَسَامِعُ وَأَبْلِغْ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ أَنْ قَدْ بَدَا لَنَا بِأَحْمَدَ نُورٌ مِنْ هُدَى اللَّهِ سَاطِعُ فَلَا تَرْغَبَنْ فِي حَشْدِ أَمْرٍ تُرِيدُهُ وَأَلِّبْ وَجَمِّعْ كُلَّ مَا أَنْتَ جَامِعُ وَدُونَكَ فَاعْلُمْ أَنَّ نَقْضَ عُهُودِنَا أَبَاهُ عَلَيْكَ الرَّهْطُ حِينَ تَتَابَعُوا أَبَاهُ الْبَرَاءُ وَابْنُ عَمْرٍو كِلَاهُمَا وَأَسْعَدُ يَأْبَاهُ عَلَيْكَ وَرَافِعُ وَسَعْدٌ أَبَاهُ السَّاعِدِيُّ وَمُنْذِرٌ لِأَنْفِكَ إنْ حَاوَلْتَ ذَلِكَ جَادِعُ وَمَا ابْنُ رَبِيعٍ إنْ تَنَاوَلْتَ عَهْدَهُ بِمُسْلِمِهِ لَا يَطْمَعَنْ ثَمَّ طَامِعُ وَأَيْضًا فَلَا يُعْطِيكَهُ ابْنُ رَوَاحَةَ وَإِخْفَارُهُ مِنْ دُونِهِ السُّمُّ نَاقِعُ وَفَاءً بِهِ وَالْقَوْقَلِيُّ بْنُ صَامِتٍ بِمَنْدُوحَةِ عَمَّا تُحَاوِلُ يَافِعُ أَبُو هَيْثَمٍ أَيْضًا وَفِيٌّ بِمِثْلِهَا وَفَاءً بِمَا أَعْطَى مِنْ الْعَهْدِ خَانِعُ وَمَا ابْنُ حُضَيْرٍ إنْ أَرَدْتَ، بِمَطْمَعِ فَهَلْ أَنْتَ عَنْ أُحْمُوقَةِ الْغَيِّ نَازِعُ وَسَعْدٌ أَخُو عَمْرِو بْنِ عَوْفٍ فَإِنَّهُ ضَرُوحٌ لِمَا حَاوَلْتَ مِلْأَمْرِ مَانِعُ أُولَاكَ نُجُومٌ لَا يُغِبُّكَ مِنْهُمْ عَلَيْكَ بِنَحْسٍ فِي دُجَى اللَّيْلِ طَالِعُ فَذَكَرَ كَعْبٌ فِيهِمْ أَبَا الْهَيْثَمِ بْنَ التَّيِّهَانِ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرْ رِفَاعَةَ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَحَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ لِلنُّقَبَاءِ: أَنْتُمْ عَلَى قَوْمِكُمْ بِمَا فِيهِمْ كُفَلَاءُ، كَكَفَالَةِ الْحَوَارِيِّينَ لِعِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ، وَأَنَا كَفِيلٌ عَلَى قَوْمِي - يَعْنِي الْمُسْلِمِينَ - قَالُوا: نَعَمْ
Translation
✧ [Kaʿb's poetry on enumerating the naqībs] Ibn Hishām said: The scholars count among them Abū al-Haytham b. al-Tayyihān, and they do not count Rifāʿah. Kaʿb b. Mālik said, mentioning them, in what Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī recited to me:: Convey to Ubayy that his opinion has failed, and the morning of the mountain pass has come, and ruin is certain. Allah has refused what your soul has made you wish; indeed He, over the affair of people, is watching and listening. And convey to Abū Sufyān that there has appeared to us, with Aḥmad, a shining light from Allah's guidance. So do not desire the gathering of a matter you want; and incite and assemble all that you are assembling. And before you, know that the breaking of our covenant was refused to you by the band, when they followed one another. Al-Barāʾ refused it, and Ibn ʿAmr, both of them, and Asʿad refuses it to you, and Rāfiʿ; and Saʿd al-Sāʿidī refused it, and Mundhir — for your nose, if you attempt that, is cut off. And Ibn Rabīʿ, if you seek his pact, is not one to hand it over; let no coveter covet there. And also, Ibn Rawāḥah will not give it to you, and his violation of it, apart from him, is deadly poison. In fidelity to it, and al-Qawqalī b. Ṣāmit, is in ample sufficiency from what you attempt, O Yāfiʿ. Abū Haytham also is faithful to the like of it, in fulfillment of what he gave of the covenant, abasing. And Ibn Ḥuḍayr, if you wish, is not to be hoped for; so are you desisting from the foolishness of error? And Saʿd, the brother of ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, for he is a violent defender of what you attempt in the matter, forbidding. Those are stars; from them there does not fail you, against you, an ill omen rising in the darkness of night. Thus Kaʿb mentioned among them Abū al-Haytham b. al-Tayyihān and did not mention Rifāʿah. Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Bakr narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to the naqībs: "You are, over your people, guarantors for what is in them, like the guarantee of the disciples for ʿĪsā b. Maryam ﷺ, and I am guarantor over my people" — meaning the Muslims. They said: "Yes."
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