Sirat Ibn Hisham 952
al-Zubayr's account of the cause of the defeat
[ حَدِيثُ الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ سَبَبِ الْهَزِيمَةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: ثُمَّ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ نَصْرَهُ عَلَى الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَصَدَقَهُمْ وَعْدَهُ، فَحَسُّوهُمْ بِالسُّيُوفِ حَتَّى كَشَفُوهُمْ عَنْ الْعَسْكَرِ، وَكَانَتْ الْهَزِيمَةُ لَا شَكَّ فِيهَا. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَبَّادٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ الزُّبَيْرِ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ: وَاَللَّهِ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتنِي أَنْظُرُ إلَى خَدَمِ هِنْدِ بِنْتِ عُتْبَةُ وَصَوَاحِبُهَا مُشَمَّرَاتٌ هَوَارِبُ، مَا دُونِ أَخْذِهِنَّ قَلِيلٌ وَلَا كَثِيرٌ إذْ مَالَتْ الرُّمَاةُ إلَى الْعَسْكَرِ، حِينَ كَشَفْنَا الْقَوْمَ عَنْهُ وَخَلَّوْا ظُهُورَنَا لِلْخَيْلِ، فَأُتِينَا مِنْ خَلْفِنَا، وَصَرَخَ صَارِخٌ: أَلَا إنَّ مُحَمَّدًا قَدْ قُتِلَ؛ فَانْكَفَأْنَا وَانْكَفَأَ عَلَيْنَا الْقَوْمُ بَعْدَ أَنْ أَصَبْنَا أَصْحَابَ اللِّوَاءِ حَتَّى مَا يَدْنُو مِنْهُ أَحَدٌ مِنْ الْقَوْمِ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: الصَّارِخُ: أَزَبُّ الْعَقَبَةِ، يَعْنِي الشَّيْطَانَ. [ شَجَاعَةُ صُؤَابٍ وَشِعْرُ حَسَّانَ فِي ذَلِكَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ: أَنَّ اللِّوَاءَ لَمْ يَزَلْ صَرِيعًا حَتَّى أَخَذَتْهُ عَمْرَةُ بِنْتُ عَلْقَمَةَ الْحَارِثِيَّةُ، فَرَفَعَتْهُ لِقُرَيْشِ، فَلَاثُوا بِهِ. وَكَانَ اللِّوَاءُ مَعَ صُؤَابٍ، غُلَامٌ لِبَنِي أَبِي طَلْحَةَ، حَبَشِيٌّ وَكَانَ آخِرُ مَنْ أَخَذَهُ مِنْهُمْ، فَقَاتَلَ بِهِ حَتَّى قُطِعَتْ يَدَاهُ، ثُمَّ بَرَكَ عَلَيْهِ، فَأَخَذَ اللِّوَاءَ بِصَدْرِهِ وَعُنُقِهِ حَتَّى قُتِلَ عَلَيْهِ، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: اللَّهُمَّ هَلْ أَعْزَرْتُ - يَقُولُ: أَعَذَرْتُ - فَقَالَ حَسَّانُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ فِي ذَلِكَ: فَخَرْتُمْ بِاللِّوَاءِ وَشَرُّ فَخْرٍ لِوَاءٌ حِينَ رُدَّ إلَى صُؤَابِ جَعَلْتُمْ فَخَرَكُمْ فِيهِ بِعَبْدٍ وَأَلْأَمُ مَنْ يَطَا عَفَرَ التُّرَابِ ظَنَنْتُمْ، وَالسَّفِيهُ لَهُ ظُنُونُ وَمَا إنْ ذَاكَ مِنْ أَمْرِ الصَّوَابِ بِأَنَّ جِلَادَنَا يَوْمَ الْتَقَيْنَا بِمَكَّةَ بَيْعُكُمْ حُمْرَ الْعِيَابِ أَقَرَّ الْعَيْنَ أَنْ عُصِبَتْ يَدَاهُ وَمَا إنْ تُعْصَبَانِ عَلَى خِضَابِ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: آخِرُهَا بَيْتًا يُرْوَى لِأَبِي خِرَاشٍ الْهُذَلِيِّ، وَأَنْشَدَنِيهِ لَهُ خَلَفٌ الْأَحْمَرُ: أَقَرَّ الْعَيْنَ أَنْ عُصِبَتْ يَدَاهَا وَمَا إنْ تُعْصَبَانِ عَلَى خِضَابِ فِي أَبْيَاتٍ لَهُ، يَعْنِي امْرَأَتَهُ، فِي غَيْرِ حَدِيثِ أُحُدٍ. وَتُرْوَى الْأَبْيَاتُ أَيْضًا لِمَعْقِلِ بْنِ خُوَيْلِدٍ الْهُذَلِيُّ
Translation
✧ [Al-Zubayr's account of the cause of the defeat] Ibn Isḥāq said: Then God sent down His help to the Muslims and fulfilled His promise to them, and they struck them with swords until they drove them from the camp, and the defeat was without doubt. Ibn Isḥāq said: Yaḥyā b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr related to me, from his father ʿAbbād, from ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr, from al-Zubayr, that he said: By God, I saw myself looking at the anklets of Hind bt. ʿUtbah and her companions, with their garments tucked up, fleeing; there was little or nothing to prevent taking them when the archers turned toward the camp, when we had driven the people away from it and left our backs exposed to the cavalry. Then we were attacked from behind, and a crier cried out: 'Indeed Muḥammad has been killed!' So we turned back, and the people turned upon us after we had struck down the bearers of the banner, until no one of the people came near it. Ibn Hishām said: The crier was Azabb al-ʿAqabah, meaning the devil. [The bravery of Ṣuʾāb and Ḥassān's poetry about that] Ibn Isḥāq said: Some of the people of knowledge related to me that the banner remained lying on the ground until ʿAmrah bt. ʿAlqamah al-Ḥārithiyyah took it up and raised it for Quraysh, and they gathered around it. The banner had been with Ṣuʾāb, a slave of Banū Abī Ṭalḥah, an Abyssinian, and he was the last of them to take it up. He fought with it until both his hands were cut off, then he knelt upon it and held the banner to his chest and neck until he was killed upon it, saying: 'O God, have I excused myself?'—he means, have I made my excuse? Ḥassān b. Thābit said about that: You boasted of the banner, and the worst boasting is a banner when it was returned to Ṣuʾāb. You made your boasting in it through a slave, and the meanest of those who tread the dust of the earth. You thought—and the foolish has thoughts—and that is not of the matter of right, that our fighting on the day we met at Makkah was your selling of red saddlebags. It delighted the eye that his hands were bound, though they were not bound for dyeing. Ibn Hishām said: The last two verses are transmitted on the authority of Abū Khirāsh al-Hudhalī, and Khalaf al-Aḥmar recited them to me as his: It delighted the eye that her hands were bound, though they were not bound for dyeing, in some verses of his, meaning his wife, in a context other than the account of Uḥud. The verses are also transmitted on the authority of Maʿqil b. Khuwaylid al-Hudhalī.
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