Sirat Ibn Hisham 908
What poetry was recited about the day of Badr
[ شِعْرُ قُتَيْلَةَ بِنْتِ الْحَارِثِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَتْ قُتَيْلَةُ بِنْتُ الْحَارِثِ، أُخْتُ النَّضْرِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، تَبْكِيهِ: يَا رَاكِبًا إنَّ الْأَثِيلَ مَظِنَّةٌ مِنْ صُبْحِ خَامِسَةٍ وَأَنْتَ مُوَفَّقُ أَبْلِغْ بِهَا مَيْتًا بِأَنَّ تَحِيَّةً مَا إنْ تَزَالُ بِهَا النَّجَائِبُ تَخْفِقُ مِنِّي إلَيْكَ وَعَبْرَةً مَسْفُوحَةً جَادَتْ بِوَاكِفِهَا وَأُخْرَى تَخْنُقُ هَلْ يَسْمَعَنِّي النَّضْرُ إنْ نَادَيْتُهُ أَمْ كَيْفَ يَسْمَعُ مَيِّتٌ لَا يَنْطِقُ أَمُحَمَّدُ يَا خَيْرَ ضَنْءِ كَرِيمَةٍ فِي قَوْمِهَا وَالْفَحْلُ فَحْلٌ مُعْرَّقُ مَا كَانَ ضُرَّكَ لَوْ مَنَنْتَ وَرُبَّمَا مَنَّ الْفَتَى وَهُوَ الْمَغِيظُ الْمُحْنَقُ أَوْ كُنْتَ قَابِلَ فِدْيَةٍ فَلْيُنْفِقَنْ بِأَعَزَّ مَا يَغْلُو بِهِ مَا يُنْفِقُ فَالنَّضْرُ أَقْرَبُ مَنْ أَسَرَّتْ قَرَابَةً وَأَحَقُّهُمْ إنْ كَانَ عِتْقٌ يُعْتَقُ ظَلَّتْ سُيُوفُ بَنِي أَبِيهِ تَنُوشُهُ لِلَّهِ أَرْحَامٌ هُنَاكَ تُشَقَّقُ صَبْرًا يُقَادُ إلَى الْمَنِيَّةِ مُتْعَبًا رَسْفَ الْمُقَيَّدِ وَهُوَ عَانٍ مُوَثَّقُ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: فَيُقَالُ، وَاَللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ: إنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَمَّا بَلَغَهُ هَذَا الشِّعْرُ، قَالَ: لَوْ بَلَغَنِي هَذَا قَبْلَ قَتْلِهِ لَمَنَنْتُ عَلَيْهِ
Translation
✧ [The Poetry of Qutaylah bt. al-Ḥārith] Ibn Isḥāq said: Qutaylah bt. al-Ḥārith, the sister of al-Naḍr b. al-Ḥārith, said, weeping for him: O rider, al-Athīl is the likely place from the morning of the fifth day, and you are guided. Convey thereby to a dead man a greeting with which the noble camels never cease to hasten. From me to you, and tears poured forth gushing with their downpour, and another that chokes. Will al-Naḍr hear me if I call him, or how can a dead man hear who does not speak? O Muḥammad, O best of noble lineage's offspring among her people, and the stallion is a stallion of deep roots. What harm would it have done you had you shown grace? For sometimes a young man shows grace while he is enraged and choked with anger. Or had you accepted a ransom, then he would surely spend with the dearest thing that one spends when it is costly. For al-Naḍr is the nearest of those whose kinship is captive, and the most deserving of them, if any captive is to be freed. The swords of his father's sons kept assailing him; for God's sake, what wombs are there that are torn apart! Patiently he is led to death, exhausted, dragging the steps of one shackled, while he is a captive bound in chains. Ibn Hishām said: It is said, and God knows best, that when this poetry reached the Messenger of God ﷺ, he said: "Had this reached me before his execution, I would have shown him grace."
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