Sirat Ibn Hisham 709
What Took Place Between Abu Jahl and al-ʿAbbas on Account of the Dream
[ الْعَبَّاسُ يَقْصِدُ أَبَا جَهْلٍ لِيَنَالَ مِنْهُ، فَيَصْرِفُهُ عَنْهُ تَحَقُّقُ الرُّؤْيَا ] قَالَ: فَغَدَوْتُ فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثِ مِنْ رُؤْيَا عَاتِكَةَ، وَأَنَا حَدِيدٌ مُغْضَبٌ أُرَى أَنِّي قَدْ فَاتَنِي مِنْهُ أَمْرٌ أُحِبُّ أَنْ أُدْرِكَهُ مِنْهُ. قَالَ: فَدَخَلْتُ الْمَسْجِدَ فَرَأَيْتُهُ، فَوَاَللَّهِ إنِّي لَأَمْشِي نَحْوَهُ أَتَعَرَّضُهُ، لِيَعُودَ لِبَعْضِ مَا قَالَ فَأَقَعَ بِهِ، وَكَانَ رَجُلًا خَفِيفًا، حَدِيدَ الْوَجْهِ، حَدِيدَ اللِّسَانِ، حَدِيدَ النَّظَرِ. قَالَ: إذْ خَرَجَ نَحْوَ بَابِ الْمَسْجِدِ يَشْتَدُّ. قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي: مَا لَهُ لَعَنَهُ اللَّهُ، أَكُلُّ هَذَا فَرَقٌ مِنِّي أَنْ أُشَاتِمَهُ قَالَ: وَإِذَا هُوَ قَدْ سَمِعَ مَا لَمْ أَسْمَعْ صَوْتَ ضَمْضَمِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو الْغِفَارِيِّ، وَهُوَ يَصْرُخُ بِبَطْنِ الْوَادِي وَاقِفًا عَلَى بَعِيرِهِ، قَدْ جَدَّعَ بَعِيرَهُ، وَحَوَّلَ رَحْلَهُ، وَشَقَّ قَمِيصَهُ، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ، اللَّطِيمَةَ اللَّطِيمَةَ، أَمْوَالُكُمْ مَعَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ قَدْ عَرَضَ لَهَا مُحَمَّدٌ فِي أَصْحَابِهِ، لَا أَرَى أَنْ تُدْرِكُوهَا، الْغَوْثَ الْغَوْثَ. قَالَ: فَشَغَلَنِي عَنْهُ وَشَغَلَهُ عَنِّي مَا جَاءَ مِنْ الْأَمْرِ
Translation
✧ Al-ʿAbbās intended Abū Jahl to get at him, but the realization of the dream diverted him from that. He said: I went out on the third day after ʿĀtikah's dream, and I was sharp and angry, thinking that I had missed from him something I would love to have gotten from him. He said: I entered the mosque and saw him. By God, I was walking toward him, confronting him, so that he might repeat some of what he had said and I would fall upon him. He was a light man, sharp of face, sharp of tongue, sharp of gaze. He said: Then he went out toward the gate of the mosque, hurrying. He said: I said to myself: What is wrong with him, may God curse him? Is all this fear of me, lest I revile him? He said: But he had heard what I had not heard—the voice of Ḍamḍam b. ʿAmr al-Ghifārī, shouting in the belly of the valley, standing on his camel. He had slit his camel's nose, turned his saddle, and torn his shirt, and he was saying: O assembly of Quraysh, the caravan, the caravan! Your goods are with Abū Sufyān; Muḥammad has confronted it with his companions. I do not think you will overtake it. Help, help! He said: What came of the matter distracted me from him and distracted him from me.
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