al-Hubāb al-Kaʿbiyyah, and in due course he married her.
Some maintain that he was a milk-brother of al-Ḥusayn—may Allah be pleased with him.
He resided in Qudayd. A quarrel arose between his mother and Lubnā, so his mother came to loathe her and kept contriving until he divorced Lubnā. He then said to his mother, “Know that this is the last time you will ever see me.” The separation from his loved ones weighed heavily on him and wore him down.
He is the poet who said:
“Every calamity that time has dealt me I found—
save the parting of loved ones—easy to bear.” (1)
His poetry occupies the loftiest peak for tenderness, sweetness, and noble diction. He lived during the reign of Yazīd.
141 – Asmāʾ ibn Khārijah ibn Ḥiṣn ibn Ḥudhayfah ibn Badr al-Fazārī *
The commander, Abū Ḥassān; some say: Abū Hind,
= vol. 3, p. 61; Al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat, 3:204, 208; Al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya, 8:313; Al-Nujum al-zahira, 1:182; Tazyin al-ashwaq, 1:53, 62; ‘Asr al-Ma’mun, 2:152; Raghbat al-amil, 5:242.
(1) The verse appears in Al-Aghani, 9:189, and in Majalis Tha‘lab, 1:237. It belongs to a qasida that opens: “Aya kabadan tarat sudu‘an nawafidha / Wa ya hasrata ma dha taghallghala fi-l-qalb” (“O heart split wide like windows in flight, alas for what has sunk so deeply into the breast!”). In the nasib section of his Hamasah (3:222, with al-Tabrizi’s commentary), Abu Tammam quotes three lines—the first is the one cited by our author—followed by: “Wa qultu li-qalbi husaynun lajj bihi-l-hawa / Wa kallafani ma la utiqu mina-l-hubb” and “Ala ayyuha-l-qalbu-lladhi qadahu-l-hawa / Afiq la – aqarra Allahu ‘aynaka min qalb.” Abu Tammam does not attribute the poem to any particular poet.
(*) Al-Muhabbar, p. 154; Mashahir ‘Ulama al-Amsar, no. 532; Al-Kamil, 4:260; Tarikh al-Islam, 2:385; Fawat al-Wafayat, 1:168–169; Al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya, 9:43; Al-Nujum al-zahira, 1:179; Tahdhib Ibn ‘Asakir, 3:44, 49.