Sirat Ibn Hisham 928

Ḥassān's poetry on the slaying of b. al-Ashraf and b. Abī al-Ḥuqayq

[ شِعْرُ حَسَّانَ فِي مُقْتَلِ ابْنِ الْأَشْرَفِ وَابْنِ أَبِي الْحُقَيْقِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ حَسَّانُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ يَذْكُرُ قَتْلَ كَعْبِ بْنِ الْأَشْرَفِ وَقَتْلَ سَلَّامِ بْنِ أَبِي الْحُقَيْقِ: لِلَّهِ دَرُّ عِصَابَةٍ لَاقَيْتهمْ يَا ابْنَ الْحُقَيْقِ وَأَنْتَ يَا ابْنَ الْأَشْرَفِ يَسْرُونَ بِالْبِيضِ الْخِفَافِ إلَيْكُمْ مَرَحًا كَأُسْدٍ فِي عَرِينٍ مُغْرِفِ حَتَّى أَتَوْكُمْ فِي مَحِلِّ بِلَادِكُمْ فَسَقَوْكُمْ حَتْفًا بِبِيضٍ ذُفَّفِ مُسْتَنْصِرِينَ لِنَصْرِ دِينِ نَبِيِّهِمْ مُسْتَصْغَرِينَ لِكُلِّ أَمْرٍ مُجْحِفِ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَسَأَذْكُرُ قَتْلَ سَلَّامِ بْنِ أَبِي الْحُقَيْقِ فِي مَوْضِعِهِ إنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ. وَقَوْلُهُ: ذُفَّفِ، عَنْ غَيْرِ ابْنِ إسْحَاقَ

Translation

✧ [Ḥassān's poetry on the killing of Ibn al-Ashraf and Ibn Abī al-Ḥuqayq] Ibn Isḥāq said: Ḥassān b. Thābit said, mentioning the killing of Kaʿb b. al-Ashraf and the killing of Sallām b. Abī al-Ḥuqayq: By God, what an excellent band you met, O Ibn al-Ḥuqayq, and you, O Ibn al-Ashraf! They walk by night toward you with sleek white swords, exultantly, like lions in a sheltering thicket; Until they came to you in the place where your lands settled, and they gave you death to drink with keen white swords; Seeking help for the victory of their Prophet's religion, deeming small every onerous affair. Ibn Hishām said: I shall mention the killing of Sallām b. Abī al-Ḥuqayq in its proper place, if God wills. And his saying "keen" is from other than Ibn Isḥāq.

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