Sirat Ibn Hisham 680
[ شِعْرُ ابْنِ الزِّبَعْرَى فِي الرِّدِّ عَلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ ] فَأَجَابَهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الزِّبَعْرَى السَّهْمِيُّ، فَقَالَ:: أَمِنْ رَسْمِ دَارٍ أَقْفَرَتْ بِالْعَثَاعِثِ بَكَيْتَ بِعَيْنٍ دَمْعُهَا غَيْرُ لَابِثِ وَمِنْ عَجَبِ الْأَيَّامِ وَالدَّهْرُ كُلُّهُ لَهُ عَجَبٌ مِنْ سَابِقَاتٍ وَحَادِثِ لِجَيْشٍ أَتَانَا ذِي عُرَامٍ يَقُودُهُ عُبَيْدَةُ يُدْعَى فِي الْهِيَاجِ ابْنَ حَارِثِ لِنَتْرُكَ أَصْنَامًا بِمَكَّةَ عُكَّفَا مَوَارِيثَ مَوْرُوثٍ كَرِيمٍ لِوَارِثِ فَلَمَّا لَقِينَاهُمْ بِسُمْرِ رُدَيْنَةَ وَجُرْدٍ عِتَاقٍ فِي الْعَجَاجِ لَوَاهِثِ وَبِيضٍ كَأَنَّ الْمِلْحَ فَوْقَ مُتُونِهَا بِأَيْدِي كُمَاةٍ كَاللُّيُوثِ الْعَوَائِثِ نُقِيمُ بِهَا إصْعَارَ مَنْ كَانَ مَائِلًا وَنَشْفِي الذُّحُولَ عَاجِلًا غَيْرَ لَابِثِ فَكَفَوْا عَلَى خَوْفٍ شَدِيدٍ وَهَيْبَةٍ وَأَعْجَبَهُمْ أَمْرٌ لَهُمْ أَمْرُ رَائِثِ وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَفْعَلُوا نَاحَ نِسْوَةٌ أَيَامَى لَهُمْ، مِنْ بَيْنِ نَسْءٍ وَطَامِثِ وَقَدْ غُودِرَتْ قَتْلَى يُخْبِرُ عَنْهُمْ حَفِيٌّ بِهِمْ أَوْ غَافِلٌ غَيْرُ بَاحِثِ فَأَبْلِغْ أَبَا بَكْرٍ لَدَيْكَ رِسَالَةً فَمَا أَنْتَ عَنْ أَعْرَاضِ فِهْرٍ بِمَاكِثِ وَلَمَّا تَجِبْ مِنِّي يَمِينٌ غَلِيظَةٌ تُجَدِّدُ حَرْبًا حَلْفَةً غَيْرَ حَانِثِ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: تَرَكْنَا مِنْهَا بَيْتًا وَاحِدًا، وَأَكْثَرُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالشِّعْرِ يُنْكِرُ هَذِهِ الْقَصِيدَةَ لِابْنِ الزِّبَعْرَى
Translation
✧ [Poem of Ibn al-Zibaʿrā in reply to Abū Bakr] ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zibaʿrā al-Sahmī answered him, saying: Is it at the trace of an abode, deserted at al-ʿAthāʿith, that you wept with an eye whose tears are not slow to fall? And of the wonders of the days—while all time has its wonders, from things past and things newly come— is a host that came to us, fierce, led by ʿUbaydah, called in the fray Ibn Ḥārith, that we should abandon idols at Makkah, objects of devotion, inherited from a noble ancestor to an heir. But when we met them with Rudaynah's lances and slim swift horses, panting in the dust, and white blades as if salt lay upon their backs, in the hands of warriors like prowling lions, by them we set aright the pride of him who had swerved, and quenched old grudges swiftly, without delay. So they desisted in great fear and awe, and what amazed them was a matter whose outcome for them was slow. And had they not done so, women would have wailed—widows among them, some past childbearing, some menstruating— and slain men would have been left, of whom none tells but one who cares for them, or one heedless who does not search. So convey to Abū Bakr, when you reach him, a message: you are not one to linger over the honors of Fihr. And no binding oath has yet become due from me, an oath that would renew war, sworn unbroken. Ibn Hishām said: We have omitted one line from it, and most scholars of poetry deny this ode to Ibn al-Zibaʿrā.
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