Sirat Ibn Hisham 903
What poetry was recited about the day of Badr
قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَأَنْشَدَنِي أَبُو مُحْرِزٍ خَلَفُ الْأَحْمَرُ: نَصُدُّ عَنْ الطَّرِيقِ وَأَدْرَكُونَا كَأَنَّ سِرَاعَهُمْ تَيَّارُ بَحْرِ وَقَوْلُهُ: - مُدَلٍّ عَنْبَسٌ فِي الْغَيْلِ مُجْرِي - عَنْ غَيْرِ ابْنِ إسْحَاقَ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ أَبُو أَسَامَّةَ أَيْضًا: أَلَا مِنْ مُبَلَّغٌ عَنِّي رَسُولًا مُغَلْغَلَةً يُثَبِّتُهَا لَطِيفُ أَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ مَرَدِّي يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ وَقَدْ بَرَقَتْ بِجَنْبَيْكَ الْكُفُوفُ وَقَدْ تُرِكَتْ سَرَاةُ الْقَوْمِ صَرْعَى كَأَنَّ رُءُوسَهُمْ حَدَجٌ نَقِيفُ وَقَدْ مَالَتْ عَلَيْكَ بِبَطْنِ بَدْرٍ خِلَافَ الْقَوْمِ دَاهِيَةٌ خَصِيفُ فَنَجَّاهُ مِنْ الْغَمَرَاتِ عَزْمِي وَعَوْنُ اللَّهِ وَالْأَمْرُ الْحَصِيفُ وَمُنْقَلَبِي مِنْ الْأَبْوَاءِ وَحْدِي وَدُونَكَ جَمْعُ أَعْدَاءٍ وُقُوفُ وَأَنْتَ لِمَنْ أَرَادَكَ مُسْتَكِينٌ بِجَنْبِ كُرَاشٍ مَكْلُومٌ نَزِيفُ وَكُنْتُ إذَا دَعَانِي يَوْمَ كَرْبٍ مِنْ الْأَصْحَابِ دَاعٍ مُسْتَضِيفُ فَأَسْمَعَنِي وَلَوْ أَحْبَبْتُ نَفْسِي أَخٌ فِي مِثْلِ ذَلِكَ أَوْ حَلِيفُ أَرُدُّ فَأَكْشِفُ الْغُمَّى وَأَرْمِي إذَا كَلَحَ الْمَشَافِرُ وَالْأُنُوفُ وَقِرْنٍ قَدْ تَرَكَتْ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ يَنُوءُ كَأَنَّهُ غُصْنٌ قَصِيفُ دَلَفْتُ لَهُ إذْ اخْتَلَطُوا بِحَرَّى مُسْحْسَحَةٍ لِعَانِدِهَا حَفِيفُ فَذَلِكَ كَانَ صَنْعِي يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ وَقَبْلُ أَخُو مُدَارَاةَ عَزُوفُ أَخُوكُمْ فِي السِّنِينَ كَمَا عَلِمْتُمْ وَحَرْبٍ لَا يَزَالُ لَهَا صَرِيفُ وَمِقْدَامٌ لَكُمْ لَا يَزْدَهِينِي جَنَانُ اللَّيْلِ وَالْأَنَسُ اللَّفِيفُ أَخُوضُ الصَّرَّةَ الْجَمَّاءَ خَوْضًا إذَا مَا الْكَلْبُ أَلْجَأَهُ الشَّفِيفُ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: تَرَكْتُ قَصِيدَةً لِأَبِي أُسَامَةَ عَلَى اللَّامِّ، لَيْسَ فِيهَا ذِكْرُ بَدْرٍ إلَّا فِي أَوَّلِ بَيْتٍ مِنْهَا وَالثَّانِي، كَرَاهِيَةَ الْإِكْثَارِ.
Translation
✧ Ibn Hishām said: Abū Muḥriz Khalaf al-Aḥmar recited to me: “We turn away from the road, and they caught up with us, as if their swift ones were the tide of a sea.” And his saying: “—letting down ʿAnbas in the thicket, running—” is from other than Ibn Isḥāq. Ibn Isḥāq said: Abū Usāmah also said: “Oh, is there one to convey from me a message, a sealed one that a kind man makes firm? Did you not know of my turning back on the day of Badr, when the palms flashed at your two sides? The chiefs of the people were left thrown down, as if their heads were split colocynth fruits. A calamity, dark and mixed, has inclined upon you in the belly of Badr, against the people. My resolve and God's help and the firm command saved him from the overwhelming floods. And my return from al-Abwāʾ alone, while before you stood a host of standing enemies. You are meek toward whoever wants you, by the side of Kurāsh, wounded and drained of blood. And when a caller from the companions called me on a day of distress, seeking shelter, I would make him hear me, even if I wished myself—a brother in such a case or an ally. I return and uncover the grief and cast, when the lips and noses are drawn back in a grimace. And a foe whom I left upon my hands, he rises as if he were a broken branch. I advanced toward him when they mingled in a fierce, sweeping battle, with a rustling for its obstinate one. That, then, was my doing on the day of Badr, and before, a brother of conciliation, averse to it. Your brother in years, as you have known, and in a war that never ceases to have creaking. And a bold one for you; the darkness of night and the gathered company do not beguile me. I plunge into the deafening uproar, plunging, when the extreme cold drives the dog to shelter.” Ibn Hishām said: I have omitted an ode of Abū Usāmah rhyming in lām, in which there is no mention of Badr except in the first and second verses of it, out of dislike for prolixity.
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