Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-3030b
"عَنْ محمدِ بن إسحاقَ، عن عمهِ موسى بن يَسَارٍ قال: كَانَ عمرُ بن الخطابِ جالسًا ذات يَومٍ فقالَ: أيُّكم يحفظُ أبياتَ أَبِى اللِّجَامِ التَّغْلِبِىِّ؟ فلم يجبْهُ أحدٌ بشئٍ، فلما كَانَ بعدُ أتَاهُ ابنُ عباسٍ فأنشدَه أبياتَ أَبِى اللِّجَامِ: خليلَىَّ رُدَّانِى إلى الدهر إننى... أرى الدهرَ قد أفنى القرونَ الأوائِلَا كأَنَّ المنايَا قد سطتْ بِى سطوةً... وألقتْ إلى قبر عَلَىَّ الجَنَادِلَا ولستُ بأبقى مِن ملوكٍ تَخَرمَّوُا... أصابهُم دهرٌ يُصيبُ المقَاتِلَا أَبعدَ ابن قَحْطَانٍ أُرَجِّى سلامةً... لنفسى أو أُلْفى لذلك آمِلا فبكى عمر ومَكثَ جُمَعًا يستنشد ابن عباس هذه الأبيات".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mḥmd b. Sḥāq
- ʿMh Mwsá b. Yasār
- Kān ʿMr b. al-Khṭāb
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"On the authority of Muhammad ibn Ishaq, from his paternal uncle Musa ibn Yasar, who said: 'Umar ibn al-Khattab was sitting one day and said: Which of you memorizes the verses of Abu al-Lijam al-Taghlibi? None of them answered him with anything. Then, after some time, Ibn 'Abbas came to him and recited to him the verses of Abu al-Lijam: O my two companions, return me to the age, for I see that the age has destroyed the earlier generations. It is as if the deaths have swooped upon me with a swoop, and cast upon me the stones of a grave. I am not more enduring than kings who passed away, whom a time that strikes the vital parts has struck. After the son of Qahtan, do I hope for safety for myself, or do I expect to be like that?" Then 'Umar wept and remained for a while asking Ibn 'Abbas to recite these verses again".
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