Sirat Ibn Hisham 893
What poetry was recited about the day of Badr
[ شِعْرُ عَبِيدَةَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ فِي قَطْعِ رِجْلِهِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ عُبَيْدَةُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ الْمُطَّلِبِ فِي يَوْمِ بَدْرٍ، وَفِي قَطْعِ رِجْلِهِ حَيْنَ أُصِيبَتْ، فِي مُبَارَزَتِهِ هُوَ وَحَمْزَةُ وَعَلِيٌّ حِينَ بَارَزُوا عَدُوَّهُمْ - قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ، وَبَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالشِّعْرِ يُنْكِرُهَا لِعُبَيْدَةَ سَتَبْلُغُ عَنَّا أَهْلَ مَكَّةَ وَقْعَةٌ يَهُبُّ لَهَا مَنْ كَانَ عَنْ ذَاكَ نَائِيًا بِعُتْبَةَ إذْ وَلَّى وَشَيْبَةُ بَعْدَهُ وَمَا كَانَ فِيهَا بِكْرُ عُتْبَةَ رَاضِيًا فَإِنْ تَقْطَعُوا رِجْلِي فَإِنَّى مُسْلِمٌ أُرَجِّي بِهَا عَيْشًا مِنْ اللَّهِ دَانِيًا مَعَ الْحُورِ أَمْثَالَ التَّمَاثِيلِ أُخْلِصَتْ مَعَ الْجَنَّةِ الْعُلْيَا لِمَنْ كَانَ عَالِيًا وَبِعْتُ بِهَا عَيْشًا تَعَرَّقْتُ صَفْوَهُ وَعَالَجْتُهُ حَتَّى فَقَدْتُ الْأَدَانِيَا فَأَكْرَمَنِي الرَّحْمَنُ مِنْ فَضْلِ مَنِّهِ بِئَوْبٍ مِنْ الْإِسْلَامِ غَطَّى الْمُسَاوِيَا وَمَا كَانَ مَكْرُوهًا إلَيَّ قِتَالُهُمْ غَدَاةَ دَعَا الْأَكْفَاءَ مَنْ كَانَ دَاعِيًا وَلَمْ يَبْغِ إذْ سَالُوا النَّبِيَّ سَوَاءَنَا ثَلَاثَتنَا حَتَّى حَضَرْنَا الْمُنَادِيَا لَقِينَاهُمْ كَالْأُسْدِ تَخْطِرُ بِالْقَنَا نُقَاتِلُ فِي الرَّحْمَنِ مَنْ كَانَ عَاصِيَا فَمَا بَرِحَتْ أَقْدَامُنَا مِنْ مَقَامِنَا ثَلَاثَتُنَا حَتَّى أَزِيرُوا الْمَنَائِيَا قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: لَمَّا أُصِيبَتْ رِجْلُ عَبِيدَةَ قَالَ: أَمَا وَاَللَّهِ لَوْ أَدْرَكَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ هَذَا الْيَوْمَ لَعَلِمَ أَنِّي أَحَقُّ مِنْهُ بِمَا قَالَ حِينَ يَقُولُ: كَذَبْتُمْ وَبَيْتِ اللَّهِ يُبْزَى مُحَمَّدٌ وَلَمَّا نُطَاعِنُ دُونَهُ وَنُنَاضِلْ وَنُسْلِمُهُ حَتَّى نُصَرَّعَ حَوْلَهُ وَنُذْهَلُ عَنْ أَبْنَائِنَا وَالْحَلَائِلِ وَهَذَانِ الْبَيْتَانِ فِي قَصِيدَةٍ لِأَبِي طَالِبٍ، وَقَدْ ذَكَرْنَاهَا فِيمَا مَضَى مِنْ هَذَا الْكِتَابِ
Translation
✧ [Poetry of ʿUbaydah b. al-Ḥārith concerning the cutting off of his leg] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿUbaydah b. al-Ḥārith b. al-Muṭṭalib said on the day of Badr, and concerning the cutting off of his leg when he was wounded, in his single combat—he, Ḥamzah, and ʿAlī—when they fought their enemy as champions. Ibn Hishām said: Some of the people of knowledge in poetry deny that these verses are by ʿUbaydah: A battle of ours will reach the people of Makkah, at which one who was far from that will be roused— by ʿUtbah when he turned away, and Shaybah after him, and in it the young ʿUtbah was not pleased. If you cut off my leg, then I am a Muslim, by it I hope for a life from God that is near, with houris like statues, made pure, with the highest Garden for one who was high. For it I sold a life whose clear part I had drained and toiled at until I lost the nearer things. The Merciful honored me, out of His gracious bounty, with a garment of submission that covered the faults. Fighting them was not hateful to me on the morning when the summoner called the equals. He did not seek, when they asked the Prophet for our equals, the three of us, until we attended the caller. We met them like lions strutting with spears, fighting in the cause of the Merciful whoever was disobedient. Our feet did not leave our station, the three of us, until they were made to taste deaths. Ibn Hishām said: When ʿUbaydah's leg was wounded, he said: By God, if Abū Ṭālib had lived to see this day, he would have known that I am more worthy than he of what he said when he said: You have lied, by the House of God, while Muḥammad is being robbed, and we have not yet thrust spears and shot arrows in his defense, and surrendered him until we are struck down around him, and distracted from our sons and our wives. These two verses are in a qaṣīdah by Abū Ṭālib, and we have mentioned it earlier in this book.
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