Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2959b
"عَن أَبِى عَلِىٍّ الْحِرْمَازِىِّ قَالَ: دَخَلَ هِشَامُ بْنُ الْبَخْتَرِىِّ فِى أُنَاسٍ مِنْ بَنِى مَخْزُومٍ عَلَى عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ فَقَالَ لَهُ: يَا هِشامُ أَنْشِدْنِى شِعْرَكَ فِى خَالِدِ بْنِ الْوَليد، فَأَنْشَدَهُ، فَقَالَ: قَصَّرْتَ فِى الثَّنَاءِ عَلَى أَبِى سُلَيْمَانَ -رَحِمَهُ اللَّه- إِنْ كَانَ (لَيُحِبُّ أَنْ يُذِلَّ) الشِّرْكَ وَأَهْلَهُ، وَإِنْ كَانَ الشَّامِتُ بِهِ لَمُتَعَرِّضًا لِمَقْتِ اللَّه، ثُمَّ قَالَ عُمَرُ: قَاتَل (اللَّه) أَخَا بَنِى تَمِيمٍ مَا أَشْعَرَ. فَقُلْ لِلَّذِى يَبْغَى خِلَافَ الَّذِى مَضَى... تَهَيَّأ لأُخرَى مِثْلِهَا فَكَأَنْ قَدِ فَمَا عَيْشُ مَنْ قَدْ عَاشَ بَعْدى () بِنَافِعِى... وَلَا مَوْتُ مَنْ قَدْ مَاتَ قَبْلِى بِمُخْلِدِى ثُمَّ قَالَ: رَحِمَ اللَّه أَبَا سُليْمَانَ! مَا عِنْدَ اللَّه خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِمَّا كَانَ فِيهِ، وَلَقَدْ مَاتَ فَقِيدًا وَعَاشَ حَمِيدًا، وَلَكِنْ رَأَيْتُ الدَّهْرَ لَيْسَ بِقَائِلٍ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abiá ʿAli al-Ḥirmāzi
- Dakhal Hishām b.
Machine translation, not reviewed
"On the authority of Abu 'Ali al-Himmani who said: Hisham ibn al-Bakhtari entered upon 'Umar ibn al-Khattab with some people from Bani Makhzum, and he said to him: O Hisham, recite to me your poem about Khalid ibn al-Walid. So he recited it, and he said: You fell short in praising Abu Sulayman, may Allah have mercy on him. If he loved to humiliate polytheism and its people, and whoever rejoices at his misfortune is exposing himself to the wrath of Allah. Then 'Umar said: May Allah fight the brother of Bani Tamim, how poetic he was! Say to the one who seeks other than what has passed: prepare for another like it, as if it had already come. So the life of one who lives after me is of no benefit to me, nor is the death of one who died before me a cause for my eternity. Then he said: May Allah have mercy on Abu Sulayman! What is with Allah is better for him than what he was in. He died praised and lived commended, but I have seen that time is not one that speaks."
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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