Sirat Ibn Hisham 902
What poetry was recited about the day of Badr
[ شِعْرُ أَبِي أُسَامَةَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ أَبُو أُسَامَةَ، مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ زُهَيْرِ بْنِ قَيْسِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ ضُبَيْعَةَ بْنِ مَازِنٍ بْنِ عَدِيِّ بْنِ جُشَمَ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ حَلِيفُ بَنِي مَخْزُومٍ - قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَكَانَ مُشْرِكًا وَكَانَ مَرَّ بهُبَيْرَةَ بْنِ أَبِي وَهْبٍ وَهُمْ مُنْهَزِمُونَ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ، وَقَدْ أَعْيَا هُبَيْرَةُ، فَقَامَ فَأَلْقَى عَنْهُ دِرْعَهُ وَحَمَلَهُ فَمَضَى بِهِ، قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَهَذِهِ أَصَحُّ أَشْعَارِ أَهْلِ بَدْرٍ: وَلَمَّا أَنْ رَأَيْتُ الْقَوْمَ خَفُّوا وَقَدْ زَالَتْ نَعَامَتُهُمْ لِنَفْرِ وَأَنْ تُرِكَتْ سَرَاةُ الْقَوْمِ صَرْعَى كَأَنَّ خِيَارَهُمْ أَذْبَاحُ عِتْرِ وَكَانَتْ جُمَّةٌ وَافَتْ حِمَامًا وَلُقِّينَا الْمَنَايَا يَوْمَ بَدْرِ نَصُدُّ عَنْ الطَّرِيقِ وَأَدْرَكُونَا كَأَنَّ زُهَاءَهُمْ غَطَيَانُ بَحْرِ وَقَالَ الْقَائِلُونَ: مَنْ ابْنُ قَيْسٍ فَقُلْتُ: أَبُو أُسَامَةَ، غَيْرَ فَخْرِ أَنَا الْجُشَمِيُّ كَيْمَا تَعْرِفُونِي أُبَيِّنْ نِسْبَتِي نَقْرًا بِنَقْرِ فَإِنْ تَكُ فِي الْغَلَاصِمِ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَإِنِّي مِنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ بَكْرِ فَأَبْلِغْ مَالِكًا لَمَّا غُشِينَا وَعِنْدَكَ مَالِ - إنْ نَبَّأْتَ - خُبْرَى وَأَبْلِغْ إنْ بَلَغْتَ الْمَرْءَ عَنَّا هُبَيْرَةَ، وَهُوَ ذُو عِلْمٍ وَقَدْرِ بِأَنِّي إذْ دُعِيتُ إلَى أُفَيْدٍ كَرَرْتُ وَلَمْ يَضِقْ بِالْكَرِّ صَدْرِي عَشِيَّةً لَا يَكَرُّ عَلَى مُضَافٍ وَلَا ذِي نَعْمَةٍ مِنْهُمْ وَصِهْرِ فَدُونَكُمْ بَنِي لَأْيٍ أَخَاكُمْ وَدُونَكِ مَالِكًا يَا أُمَّ عَمْرِو فَلَوْلَا مَشْهَدِي قَامَتْ عَلَيْهِ مُوَقَّفَةُ الْقَوَائِمِ أُمُّ أَجْرِي دَفُوعٌ لِلْقُبُورِ بِمَنْكِبَيْهَا كَأَنَّ بِوَجْهِهَا تَحْمِيمَ قَدْرِ فَأُقْسِمُ بِاَلَّذِي قَدْ كَانَ رَبِّي وَأَنْصَابٍ لَدَى الْجَمَرَاتِ مُغْرِ لَسَوْفَ تَرَوْنَ مَا حَسَبِي إذَا مَا تَبَدَّلَتْ الْجُلُودُ جُلُودَ نِمْرِ فَمَا إنْ خَادِرٌ مِنْ أُسْدِ تَرْجِ مُدِلٌّ عَنْبَسٌ فِي الْغَيْلِ مُجْرِي فَقَدْ أَحْمِي الْأَبَاءَةَ مِنْ كُلَافِ فَمَا يَدْنُو لَهُ أَحَدٌ بِنَقْرِ بِخَلٍّ تَعْجِزُ الْحُلَفَاءُ عَنْهُ يُوَاثِبُ كُلَّ هَجْهَجَةٍ وَزَجْرِ بِأَوْشَكَ سَوْرَةً مِنِّي إذَا مَا حَبَوْتُ لَهُ بِقَرْقَرَةٍ وَهَدْرِ بِبِيضٍ كَالْأَسِنَّةِ مُرْهِفَاتٍ كَأَنَّ ظُبَاتِهِنَّ جَحِيمِ جَمْرِ وَأَكْلَفُ مُجْنَإِ مِنْ جِلْدِ ثَوْرٍ وَصَفْرَاءِ الْبُرَايَةِ ذَاتِ أَزْرِ وَأَبْيَضَ كَالْغَدِيرِ ثَوَى عَلَيْهِ عُمَيْرٌ بِالْمَدَاوِسِ نِصْفَ شَهْرِ أُرَفِّلُ فِي حَمَائِلِهِ وَأَمْشِي كَمِشْيَةِ خَادِرٍ لَيْثٍ سِبَطْرِ يَقُولُ لِي الْفَتَى سَعْدٌ هَدِيَّا فَقُلْتُ: لَعَلَّهُ تَقْرِيبُ غَدْرِ وَقُلْتُ أَبَا عَدِيٍّ لَا تَطُرْهُمْ وَذَلِكَ إنْ أَطَعْتَ الْيَوْمَ أَمْرِي كَدَأْبِهِمْ بِفَرْوَةَ إذْ أَتَاهُمْ فَظَلَّ يُقَادُ مَكْتُوفًا بِضَفْرِ
Translation
✧ [The poetry of Abū Usāmah] Ibn Isḥāq said: Abū Usāmah, Muʿāwiyah b. Zuhayr b. Qays b. al-Ḥārith b. Saʿd b. Ḍubayʿah b. Māzin b. ʿAdī b. Jusham b. Muʿāwiyah, the confederate of Banū Makhzūm, said—Ibn Hishām said: He was a polytheist, and he passed by Hubayrah b. Abī Wahb when they were routed on the day of Badr; Hubayrah had become exhausted, so he stopped, threw off his coat of mail, and carried him and went off with him. Ibn Hishām said: This is the most authentic poetry of the people of Badr: When I saw the people hasten off, and their ostrich had departed for flight, and the nobles of the people were left as corpses, their best men like slaughtered sacrifices; It was a numerous host that came upon death, and we met the fates on the day of Badr; We turned aside from the road, and they overtook us, as if their mass were the flood of a sea. And the askers said: 'Who is the son of Qays?' So I said: 'Abū Usāmah, without boasting. I am the Jushamī, so that you may know me; I make clear my lineage, notch for notch. If you are among the throats of Quraysh, I am of Muʿāwiyah b. Bakr. So convey to Mālik, when we were overwhelmed— and you have, Mālik, if you tell, the news— and convey, if you reach the man from us, to Hubayrah, who has knowledge and standing, that when I was summoned to Ufayd, I charged again, and my breast did not grow tight at charging, on an evening when no one charged again at a distressed man, nor at one with favor or in-law relation among them. So take for yourselves, Banū Laʾy, your brother, and take Mālik, O Umm ʿAmr. Were it not for my presence, upon which stood Umm Ajrī, firm of legs, pushing toward the graves with her shoulders, as if her face bore the blackening of a pot. I swear by Him who was my Lord, and by stones set up at the Jamarāt, steeped in blood, you shall surely see what my mettle is, when skins are exchanged for the skins of leopards. For no lurking lion of Tarj, bold, fierce in the thicket, running, defends the reed-thicket from Kulāf, so that none draws near him with a notch, with a friend whom the confederates are unable to match, leaping at every shout and rebuke, more swiftly in assault than I, when I gave him a rumble and a roar, with white swords like spearheads, keen-edged, as if their points were the blaze of coals, and a dark shield curved from bull's hide, and a tawny bow, well-worn, with a notch, and a white one like a pool, upon which ʿUmayr stayed with the polishers for half a month; I trail it in its shoulder-belts, and I walk like the gait of a lurking lion, stretching forth. The youth Saʿd said to me: 'Guide them,' so I said: 'Perhaps it is a drawing near of treachery.' And I said: 'Abū ʿAdī, do not pursue them, if today you obey my command,' like their custom at Farwah when he came to them, and he was led away, bound with a rope.
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