Sirat Ibn Hisham 64
What was said in poetry in description of the elephant
[ شِعْرُ الْفَرَزْدَقِ فِي وَقْعَةِ الْفِيلِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَقَالَ الْفَرَزْدَقُ - وَاسْمُهُ هَمَّامُ بْنُ غَالِبٍ أَحَدُ بَنِي مُجَاشِعِ بْنِ دَارِمِ بْنِ مَالِكِ بْنِ حَنْظَلَةَ بْنِ مَالِكِ بْنِ زَيْدِ مَنَاةَ بْنِ تَمِيمٍ - يَمْدَحُ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ، وَيَهْجُو الْحَجَّاجَ بْنَ يُوسُفَ، وَيَذْكُرُ الْفِيلَ وَجَيْشَهُ:: فَلَمَّا طَغَى الْحَجَّاجُ حِينَ طَغَى بِهِ غِنَى قَالَ إنِّي مُرْتَقٍ فِي السَّلَالِمِ فَكَانَ كَمَا قَالَ ابْنُ نُوحٍ سَأَرْتَقِي إلَى جَبَلٍ مِنْ خَشْيَةِ الْمَاءِ عَاصِمِ رَمَى اللَّهُ فِي جُثْمَانِهِ مِثْلَ مَا رَمَى عَنْ الْقِبْلَةِ الْبَيْضَاءِ ذَاتِ الْمَحَارِمِ جُنُودًا تَسُوقُ الْفِيلَ حَتَّى أَعَادَهُمْ هَبَاءً وَكَانُوا مُطْرَخِمي الطَّرَاخِمِ نُصِرْتَ كَنَصْرِ الْبَيْتِ إذْ سَاقَ فِيلَهُ إلَيْهِ عَظِيمُ الْمُشْرِكِينَ الْأَعَاجِمِ وَهَذِهِ الْأَبْيَاتُ فِي قَصِيدَةٍ لَهُ
Translation
✧ [Poetry of al-Farazdaq concerning the affair of the elephant] Ibn Hishām said: Al-Farazdaq—whose name is Hammām b. Ghālib, one of the Banū Mujāshiʿ b. Dārim b. Mālik b. Ḥanẓalah b. Mālik b. Zayd Manāh b. Tamīm—said, praising Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān, satirizing al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf, and mentioning the elephant and his army: When al-Ḥajjāj transgressed, when wealth made him transgress, He said: “I am one who will ascend the ladders.” So he was as the son of Nūḥ said: “I will ascend to a mountain that will protect me from the water.” God cast into his body the like of what He cast away from the white qiblah, possessor of sacred precincts— troops driving the elephant, until He returned them to dust, though they were haughty in their pride. You were aided as the House was aided when the great one of the polytheists, the non-Arabs, drove his elephant to it. These verses are in a qaṣīdah of his.
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