Al-Uqud al-DurriyyaIbn Abd al-Hadi

Reports from every quarter of Syria arrived in agreement, bearing an account whose soundness is beyond reproach. Those who attended the funeral prayer and escorted the bier—by Allah, no pen could ever number them. Upon him be the choicest mercy that may be bestowed, and from the Almighty greeting and peace, for as long as the celestial spheres revolve or a dove laments from the branches above.

The poem is now complete; it consists of (1) sixty-six couplets.

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Among the elegies is a poem by Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Khalīl al-Baghdādī, the Ḥanbalī jurist better known as Ibn al-Khuḍarī—may Allah have mercy on him (2):

Live as you please, yet the end of it is extinction; death is inescapable, and there is no alternative (3).
If Time should aid you for a day, how often has it aided with evil—its very help is hardship itself.
A day must surely come when death sets out for you, inevitably, whether the appointed term seems far away or draws near.
Every soul has a share of the arrows of calamity: they fly, striking unerringly from every direction (4).

(1) MSS F, K, and T read: “waʿadtaha” (I promised her/it). (2) The base manuscripts give the name as “al-Husari,” which is corrected here on the basis of the sources. MS B adds: “among them is the work of Shaykh Jamal al-Din ʿAbd al-Samad ibn Khalil.” Ibn Kathir describes him as “the hadith scholar and preacher of Baghdad” (d. 765 AH). For his biography see: al-Bidayah wa-al-Nihayah, 18:691; al-Dhayl ʿala Tabaqat al-Hanabilah, 5:14–15. (3) MS B reads: “al-mawt la budda” (death is inevitable), while MSS B and F have: “ʿanhu wa-la ghina” (there is no doing without it). (4) MS F gives: “min suhum …,” and MSS F and K read: “tarmi fa-tusmi” (it shoots and strikes unerringly).
وأتت رواياتُ الشآم بجَمْعها ... خبرًا صحيحًا ليس فيه أثامُ إنَّ الذي شهدوا الصلاةَ وشيَّعوا ... واللَّهِ لا تُحصيهمُ الأقلامُ فعليه أفضلُ رحمةٍ تُهْدَى له ... ومن الإله تحيَّةٌ وسلامُ ما دامتِ الأفلاكُ في دَوَرانها ... أو ناحَ مِنْ فوقِ الغصون حَمامُ تمت، وهي (١) ستةٌ وستون بيتًا. * * * * ومنها قصيدةٌ للشيخ جمال الدين عبد الصمد بن إبراهيم بن الخليل ابن إبراهيم بن الخليل البغدادي الحنبلي، المعروف بابن الخُضَري رحمه الله تعالى (٢): عِش ما تشاءُ فإنَّ آخِرَهُ الفنا ... الموتُ مالا بدَّ منه ولا غِنى (٣) والدَّهرُ إن يومًا أعانَ فطالما ... بالسُّوء عانَ فعونُه عينُ العنا لا بدَّ من يومٍ يؤمُّك حَتْفُه ... حتمًا نأى الأجلُ المقدَّر أو دنا للنَّفس سَهْمٌ من سهام نوائبٍ ... يرمي فيُصْمي مِن هناك ومِنْ هنا (٤)
(١) (ف، ك، ط): «وعدتها». (٢) وقع في الأصول: «الحصري» بمهملات، والتصويب من المصادر. وفي (ب): «ومنها للشيخ جمال الدين عبدالصمد بن خليل». قال ابن كثير: «محدّث بغداد وواعظها». ت (٧٦٥). ترجمته في «البداية والنهاية»: (١٨/ ٦٩١) و «الذيل على طبقات الحنابلة»: (٥/ ١٤ ــ ١٥). (٣) (ب): «الموت لا بد»، (ب، ف): «عنه ولا غنى». (٤) (ف): «من سهوم .. »، (ف، ك): «ترمي فتُصمي».

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