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small thing to ask and I led him to them. As he stood by them he said,
'Fare you well, I:Iubaysha, though life is at an end.'
Tell me when I sought and found you in I:Ialya
Or came on you in al-Khawaniq,
Was I not a lover worthy to be given what he asked,
Who undertook journeys by night and noonday?
I did nO wrong when I said when ou: people were together,
Reward me with love before some misfortune befalls!
Reward me with love before distance divides
And the chief goes off with a dear one thus parted.
For I was never disloyal to our secret troth
And my eye never looked admiringly at another.
When the tribe's troubles distracted me from love
Even then the attraction of love was there (818).
The same authority told me that she said: 'May your life be prolonged
seven and ten continuous years and eight thereafter.' Then I took him
away and he was beheaded. .
Abu Firiis b. Abu Sunbula al-Aslami from some of theIr shaykhs from
one who was present said: She went to him when he w~ b~headed
bent over him and kept on kissing him untIl she dIed at h,s sIde.
One of the B. Jadhima said:
God requite Mudlij for the evil they did us
Wherever they go or rest.
They took our goods and divided them;
The spears came at us not once nor tWice.
Were it not for the religion of Muhammad's people
Their cavalry! would have fled and been driven off.
What hindered them from helping a squadron
Like a swarm of locusts loose and scattered abroad?
If they repent or return to their (right) way ,
We will not repay them for what the squadron lost.
Wahb of the B. Layth answered him:
We called'Amir to Islam and the truth.
It is not our fault if .Amir turned their backs.
What happened to 'Amir, confound them, is not our fault
Because their minds were foolish and went astray.
One of the B. Jadhima said:
Congratulate B. Ka'b on the coming of Khalid and his companions
The mom when the squadrons came on us.
Ibn Khuwaylid showed nO desire for revenge.
1 Reading with C. khuyul. .'
:1 Or, reading the passive with W., 'for the squadron havmg been led astray.
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The Life of Muhammad
You would have been content had vou not been there.
Our men do not keep their fools fr~m us,
Nor is the malady of the day of al-Ghumaysa' cured.
A young man of B. Jadhima who was leading his mother and his two
sisters in their flight from Khalid's force said:
Set free your skirts, let your garments trail;
Walk as chaste women who do not quail.
We guard our women, we wiiI not fail.
Young men of B. Jadhima known as B. Musal,Iiq were composing rough
verse when they heard of Khalid, and one of them said:
$afra' white of flanks whom a man with flocks and camels
Possesses, knows that I will do all a man can do this day.
And another said:
$afra' who diverts her husband \vell knows,
She who eats but a morsel of meat,
That today I will deliver a swift blow
As one leaving the sacred area hits sluggish pregnant camels.
And another said:
No long-maned lion with ponderous paws,
Ferocious mien, and tawny whiskers, r
Roaring 'twixt jungle and thicket when the morn is cold,
Whose only food is man,
Is bolder than I was that day, I swear.
KHALlD'S JOURNEY TO DESTROY AL-'UZZA
Then the apostle sent Khalid to al-'Uzza which was in Nakhla. It was a
temple which this tribe of Quraysh and Kinana and all MUllar used to
venerate. Its guardians and wardens were B. Shayban of B. Sulaym, allies
of B. Hashim.
When the Sulami guardian heard of Khalid's coming he
hung his sword on her, climbed the mountain on which she stood, and said:
o 'Uzza, make an annihilating attack on KhaIid,
Throw aside your veil and gird up your train,
o 'Uzza, if you do not kill this man Khalid
Then bear a swift punishment or become a Christian.'
When Khalid arrived he destroyed her and returned to the apostle.
I I prefer this reading to W.'s shibiil, 'cubs'.
:1 For bu' see Lane, 270C; ithm can stand both for crime and punishment. TanlJjian- really
means 'become a Muslim', because the speaker at that date saw no difference between the
two religions.