Sirat Ibn Hisham 882
What poetry was recited about the day of Badr
فَأَجَابَهُ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ هِشَامِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ ندب قتلى بدر، فَقَالَ: عَجِبْتُ لِأَقْوَامٍ تَغَنَّى سَفِيهُهُمْ بِأَمْرٍ سَفَاهٍ ذِي اعْتِرَاضٍ وَذِي بُطْلٍ تَغَنَّى بِقَتْلَى يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ تَتَابَعُوا كِرَامِ الْمَسَاعِي مِنْ غُلَامٍ وَمِنْ كَهْلٍ مَصَالِيتَ بِيضٍ مِنْ لُؤَيِّ بْنِ غَالِبٍ مَطَاعِينَ فِي الْهَيْجَا مَطَاعِيمَ فِي الْمَحْلِ أُصِيبُوا كِرَامًا لَمْ يَبِيعُوا عَشِيرَةً بِقَوْمِ سِوَاهُمْ نَازِحِي الدَّارِ وَالْأَصْلِ كَمَا أَصْبَحَتْ غَسَّانُ فِيكُمْ بِطَانَةً لَكُمْ بَدَلًا مِنَّا فِيَا لَكَ مِنْ فِعْلِ عُقُوقًا وَإِثْمًا بَيِّنًا وَقَطِيعَةً يَرَى جَوْرَكُمْ فِيهَا ذَوُو الرَّأْيِ وَالْعَقْلِ فَإِنْ يَكُ قَوْمٌ قَدْ مَضَوْا لِسَبِيلِهِمْ وَخَيْرُ الْمَنَايَا مَا يَكُونُ مِنْ الْقَتْلِ فَلَا تَفْرَحُوا أَنْ تَقْتُلُوهُمْ فَقَتْلُهُمْ لَكُمْ كَائِنٌ خَبْلًا مُقِيمًا عَلَى خَبْلِ فَإِنَّكُمْ لَنْ تَبْرَحُوا بَعْدَ قَتْلِهِمْ شَتِيتًا هَوَاكُمْ غَيْرُ مُجْتَمِعِي الشَّمْلِ بِفَقْدِ ابْنِ جُدْعَانَ الْحَمِيدِ فِعَالُهُ وَعُتْبَةُ وَالْمَدْعُوُّ فِيكُمْ أَبَا جَهْلِ وَشَيْبَةَ فِيهِمْ وَالْوَلِيدَ وَفِيهِمْ أُمَيَّةَ مَأْوَى الْمُعْتَرِينَ وَذُو الرِّجْلِ أُولَئِكَ فَابْكِ ثُمَّ لَا تَبْكِ غَيْرَهُمْ نَوَائِحُ تَدْعُو بِالرَّزِيَّةِ وَالثُّكْلِ وَقُولُوا لِأَهْلِ الْمَكَّتَيْنِ تَحَاشَدُوا وَسِيرُوا إلَى آطَامِ يَثْرِبَ ذِي النَّخْلِ جَمِيعًا وَحَامُوا آلَ كَعْبٍ وَذَبِّبُوا بِخَالِصَةِ الْأَلْوَانِ مُحْدَثَةِ الصَّقْلِ وَإِلَّا فَبُيِّتُوا خَائِفِينَ وَأَصْبِحُوا أَذَلَّ لِوَطْءِ الْوَاطِئِينَ مِنْ النَّعْلِ عَلَى أَنَّنِي وَاللَّاتِ يَا قَوْمُ فَاعْلَمُوا بِكَمْ وَاثِقٌ أَنْ لَا تُقِيمُوا عَلَى تَبْلِ سِوَى جَمْعِكُمْ لِلسَّابِغَاتِ وَلِلْقَنَا وَلِلْبَيْضِ وَالْبِيضِ الْقَوَاطِعِ وَالنَّبْلِ
Translation
✧ Al-Ḥārith b. Hishām b. al-Mughīrah answered him, lamenting those slain at Badr, saying: I marvel at a people whose fool sings of a matter of folly, full of obstruction and falsehood; he sings of those slain on the day of Badr, who followed one another, noble in their strivings, young and old, fierce heroes, bright-faced, of Luʾayy b. Ghālib, thrusters in the fray, feeders in the drought. They were struck down as noble men who did not sell their kindred for a people other than them, distant in abode and origin. As Ghassān has become among you an inner lining, in place of us—alas for such a deed—disobedience and clear sin and severance, in which men of judgment and reason see your wrongdoing. If a people have passed on their way—and the best of deaths is that which comes by being slain—do not rejoice that you have killed them, for their killing will be to you a lasting injury upon injury. After their slaying you will not cease to be scattered in your desires, your unity uncollected, through the loss of Ibn Judʿān, praiseworthy in his deeds, and ʿUtbah, and the one called among you Abū Jahl, and Shaybah among them, and al-Walīd among them, and Umayyah, refuge of those seeking shelter, and Dhū al-Rijl. Those, then weep, and let no mourners weep for other than them, calling out with calamity and bereavement. And say to the people of the two Makkahs: assemble and march to the strongholds of Yathrib of the palm trees, all together, and protect the people of Kaʿb, and drive off with pure-colored, newly polished blades; otherwise, be attacked at night in fear, and become more abased to the tread of treaders than a sandal. Yet I—by al-Lāt, O people, know—am confident that you will not persist in exacting vengeance, except by your gathering for the long coats of mail, for the lances, for the helmets, for the white cutting swords, and for the arrows.
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