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7 00 The Life of Muhammad Ibn Hishiim's Notes I He it is to whom Abu Duwiid al-Iyadl refers in his line: I saw that death had descended from al-!;Ia
702 The Life of Muhammad 67. KhauHin was Ibn 'Amr b. al-J:Iaf b. QuQ.ifa; others say Ibn 'Amr b. Murra b. Udad b. Zayd b. Mihsa' b. 'Amr b. 'Arib b. Zayd b. Kahlan b. Saba'; others say Ibn 'Amr b. Sa'd al-'Ashira b. Madh\1ij. 68. I shall say morc about him later on, God willing. Daus was the son of 'Udthan b. 'Abdullah b. Zahran b. Ka'b b. al-l;liirith b. Ka'b b. 'Abdullah b. Malik b. Nalr b. al-Asd b. al-Ghauth. Others say Daus b. 'Abdullah b. Zahran b. al-Asd b. al-Ghauth. 69. I shall have more to say about this later on, God ,\villing. 70. Allies of the sons of Abu Tiilib especially. Sulaym was b. l\Ian~u.r b. 'Ikrima b. Kha~afa b. Qays b. 'Aylan. 7r. These m'O verses were composed by Abu Khirash aI-HudhalI whose name ,"vas Khuwaylid b. l\lurra, and arc taken from a longer poem. Guardiansl means those in charge of the affairs of the Ka'ba. Cf. the lines of Ru'ba b. al-'Ajjaj in onc of his rajaz poems which I shall say more about later on God willing: Nay, by the lord of the birds who rest safely In the victims' enclosure and the overseer's2 house. 72. AI-Kumayt b. Zayd, one of B. Asad b. Khuzayma b. l\ludrika, said in one of his odes: Tribes swore they \vould not flee Turning their backs on l\lanat. The apostle of God sent Abu Sufyan b. l;Iarb-others say CAly b. Abu Talib-with orders to destroy it. 73. The name is also spelt Dhu'l-Khulu~a. A certain Arab said: If you, Dhu'l-Khulu;;a, were the avenger of blood As I, and your father had been slain, You would not forbid the killing of enemiest His father had~been killed and he wanted to tak:: vengeance; but first he '\-vent to DhQ 'l-Khala~a to get an oracle from the arrows. \Vhcn the arrow forbidding him to proceed came out he spoke the verses quoted above. Some attribute them to Imru'u'!-Qays b. ~ujr al-Kindi. The apostle of God dispatched Jarir b. 'Abdullah al-Bajali to destroy the idol. 74. I was told by a traditionist that the apostle of God sent CAli b. Abu Talib to destroy it, and he found there nvo swords called al-RasQb and al 1\1ikhdham. \Vhen he brought them to the apostle of God he gave them back to him. They are in fact the nyo swords which 'Ali had. 75. r have gi'\'C11 an account of it in the preceding pages. 76. The second half of the verse was uttered by a man of B. Sa'd. It is said that al-l\'lustaughir b. Rabi'a b. Ka'b b. Sacd lived 330 years. He, who lived longer than any man of l'vluqar, said: I I am weary of life and its length. I have lived for hundreds of years. Sadana. 2 Masdan. A century was followed by nvo more. From countless months I have added to my years. What remains is as what went before. Days pass and nights follow them. However, some people ascribe these verses to Zuhayr b. Janab al-Kalbi. 1 77. This is really a verse of al-Aswad b. Ya'fur al-Nahshal1, :0:ahshal being the son of Darim b. Malik b. l,Ianz;ala b. ::Ylalik b. Zayd I\1anat b. Tamim. Abu Mu1).riz Khalaf al-Abmar quoted the verse to me in the fom1: The people of al-Khawarnaq and al-Sadir and Bariq And the temple Dhu'l-Shurufar of Sindad. 2 78. It is said that anything that she gives birth to after that belongs to their sons and not their daughters. 79. All this information according to the Bedouin is wrong, except so Jar as concerns the l;Iaml; there Ibn Is1).aq is right. Among the Arabs the Bal:l1ra is the she-camel whose ear is slit and \vho is not ridden, whose hair is not shorn and whose milk is only drunk by the guest or given in alms, or left to their gods. The Sa'iba is a she-camel which a man vows that he will set free if he recovers from his sickness or if he gains an object which he sed:s; and when he has freed a she-camel or a camel for one of their gods, then it runs free and pastures, no profit being made from it. The \Va,,?Ila means a e\ve whose mother has twins at every birth. Its owner gives the ewes to his gods and keeps the males for himself. If her mother gives birth to a male lamb with her, they say Wa$alat (she has joined) her brother, and her brother is freed with her, no profit being made from him. I was given this information by YQnus b. J:Iabib the grammarian and others, each contributing his part thereto. 80. The poet says: Ibn Hishiim's Notes Round the Wa~Ila in Shurayf is a three-year-old camel, And those whose backs are taboo and those who are set free. 3 Tamim b. Ubayy b. 1\Iuqbil, one of B. 'Amir b. $aC~a'a, said: Therein is the rumbling of the young onager stallion Like the grumbling of the Diyafi camel in the midst of the Ba1;iras. This verse belongs to one of his odes and the plural of Bab'ira is Ba(ui'ir and Bubur. The plural of War'ila is Wara'it and TVllru1. The plural of multitude of Sa'iba is Sawa'ib and Suyyab, and the plural of multitude of ijamf is ijawamf. 81. And the Khuz:l'a say we are the sons of cAmr b. RabI'a b. Haritha b. cAmr b. 'Amir b. I:Iarith~ b. Imru'u'l-Qays b. Tha'laba b. IVLlzin b.' al-Asel b. al-Ghauth; and Khindif is their mother, according to what Abu 'Ubayda and other learned traditionists told me. Others say Khuzaca are the sons of I These verses (with unimportant variants) are in K. al-Alu'ammarin, ed. Gold7.iher, Leiden, 1899,1\'0. X and p. 7. 2 One's confidence in Ibn Hisham is not strengthened by this quotation. However, it is to be noted that he does not claim that this notorious forger's version is tu be preferred. 3 These lines contain all three terms. 7°3
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