Sirat Ibn Hisham 912
The reason for naming it the expedition of al-Sawīq
[ سَبَبُ تَسْمِيَتِهَا بِغَزْوَةِ السَّوِيقِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَإِنَّمَا سُمِّيَتْ غَزْوَةَ السَّوِيقِ، فِيمَا حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ: أَنَّ أَكْثَرَ مَا طَرَحَ الْقَوْمُ مِنْ أَزْوَادِهِمْ السَّوِيقُ، فَهَجَمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ عَلَى سَوِيقٍ كَثِيرٍ، فَسُمِّيَتْ غَزْوَةَ السَّوِيقِ. [ شِعْرُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ فِيهَا ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ بْنُ حَرْبٍ عِنْدَ مُنْصَرَفِهِ، لِمَا صَنَعَ بِهِ سَلَّامُ بْنُ مِشْكَمٍ: وَإِنِّي تَخَيَّرْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ وَاحِدًا لِحِلْفٍ فَلَمْ أَنْدَمْ وَلَمْ أَتَلَوَّمْ سَقَانِي فَرَوَانِي كُمَيْتًا مُدَامَةً عَلَى عَجَلٍ مِنِّي سَلَّامُ بْنُ مِشْكَمٍ وَلَمَّا تَوَلَّى الْجَيْشُ قُلْتُ وَلَمْ أَكُنْ لِأُفْرِحَهُ أَبْشِرْ بِعَزٍّ وَمَغْنَمِ تَأَمَّلْ فَإِنَّ الْقَوْمَ سُرَّ وَإِنَّهُمْ صَرِيحُ لُؤَيٍّ لَا شَمَاطِيطُ جُرْهُمِ وَمَا كَانَ إلَّا بَعْضُ لَيْلَةِ رَاكِبٍ أَتَى سَاعِيًا مِنْ غَيْرِ خَلَّةِ مُعْدِمِ
Translation
✧ [The reason for its being named the expedition of al-Sawīq] Ibn Hishām said: It was named the expedition of al-Sawīq because, as Abū ʿUbaydah narrated to me, most of what the people threw away from their provisions was sawīq, and the Muslims came upon much sawīq, so it was called the expedition of al-Sawīq. [Abū Sufyān's poem about it] Ibn Isḥāq said: Abū Sufyān b. Ḥarb said upon his return, because of what Sallām b. Mishkam did for him: I chose Madinah alone for an alliance, and I did not regret nor linger. Sallām b. Mishkam gave me to drink, and he quenched my thirst, a dark red wine, in my haste. When the army turned away, I said—and I would not have rejoiced him—"Rejoice in might and booty." Reflect, for the people were glad, and they are the pure stock of Luʾayy, not scattered bands of Jurhum. It was but part of a night of a rider who came striving, without any want of a destitute man.
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