Al-Bidayah wa an-NihayahIbn Kathir

So whoever among them is envied for the turns of fate
Will find those very turns treacherous to him;
Had kings been granted endless life, we too would have endured,
And had the noble remained, we likewise would have remained.
Thus did those vicissitudes consume the chiefs of my tribe,
Just as they consumed the generations of old.

Ibn Isḥāq says (1): When Farwah ibn Musayk set out for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, having cut ties with the kings of Kindah, he recited—of the kāmil metre:

When I saw Kindah’s kings avert their faces,
Like a leg betrayed by its own sciatic nerve,
I readied my mount and made for Muḥammad,
Hoping for her abundant favors and rich reward. (2)

He continues: When Farwah reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, the Prophet said to him, as I have been informed,

“O Farwah, did what befell your people on the Day of al-Radm grieve you?”

He replied, “O Messenger of Allah, who would not be distressed when his people suffer what mine did on the Day of al-Radm?”

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “That calamity has only increased your people in goodness as far as Islam is concerned.”

He then appointed Farwah over Murād, Zubaid, and the whole of Madhḥij, and sent Khālid ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ with him to oversee the alms-tax. Khālid remained there with him until the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed away.

The Arrival of ʿAmr ibn Maʿdi-Karib with a Company from Zubaid

Ibn Isḥāq adds (3): ʿAmr ibn Maʿdi-Karib once said to Qays ibn Makshūḥ al-Murādī, when news of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reached them,

“O Qays, you are the chief of your people, and we have been told that a man of Quraysh named Muḥammad has appeared in the Ḥijāz and is said to be a Prophet. Let us go to him so that we may learn the truth of his affair. If he is truly a Prophet, as he claims, that will not be hidden from us; when we meet him, we shall follow him. But if it is otherwise, we shall know his reality.”

Qays refused and scoffed at the idea. ʿAmr therefore mounted and rode on until he reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, where he embraced Islam, affirmed him, and believed in him.

When Qays ibn Makshūḥ heard of this he threatened ʿAmr, saying that he had opposed him and abandoned his counsel and judgment. In response ʿAmr ibn Maʿdi-Karib composed the following verses (6), in the majzūʾ al-wāfir metre:

(1) Sirah Ibn Hisham, vol. 2, pp. 582–583. (2) The couplet appears in al-Isabah, vol. 3, p. 205, with the reading “yamamat raḥalati amama Muhammad” in the second line; it is also recorded in al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah, vol. 2, p. 307, and Abu Dharr al-Khashani glosses its wording in his Sharh al-Sirah, pp. 442–443. (3) Sirah Ibn Hisham, vol. 2, pp. 583–584; see Tabaqat Ibn Sa‘d, vol. 1, p. 328. (4) In al-Sirah it reads: “‘alayka.” (5) In al-Usul it reads “idha” without the waw, which I have supplied from the Sirah. (6) The verses of ‘Amr ibn Ma‘d Yakrib (nos. 87–89) also appear in al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah, vol. 2, pp. 583–584; their interpretation is provided in Sharh al-Sirah by Abu Dharr al-Khashani, pp. 443–445.
فَمَنْ يُغْبَطْ برَيبِ الدّهرِ مِنْهُمْ … يَجدْ رَيْبَ الزَّمان لَهُ خَؤُونا فَلَو خَلَدَ المُلُوكُ إذن خَلَدْتا … وَلَوْ بَقي الكِرَامُ إذنْ بَقِينا فَأَفْنَي ذلِكُمْ سَرَواتِ قَوْمي … كَمَا أفنَي القُرونَ الأَوَّلِينا قال ابن إسحاق (١) ولما توجه فروة بن مُسَيْك إلى رسول الله ﷺ مفارقًا ملوك كندة قال: [من الكامل] لَمَّا رَأَيْتَ مُلُوكَ كِنْدَةَ أعْرَضَتْ … كَالرِّجْلِ خَانَ الرِّجْلَ عِرْقُ نسَائِها قرَّبْتُ رَاحِلَتي أؤمُّ مُحمَّدا … أرْجو فواضِلَهَا وَحُسْنَ ثَرائِها (٢) قال: فلما انتهى فَروة إلى رسول الله ﷺ قال له فيما بلغني: "يا فروة، هل ساءك ما أصاب قومك يوم الرَّدْم؟ " فقال: يا رسول الله، من ذا الذي يصيب قومه ما أصاب قومي يوم الرَّدْم لا يسوؤه ذلك؟ فقال له رسول الله ﷺ : "أما إنَّ ذلك لم يزد قومَك في الإسلام إلا خيرًا" واستعمله على مُراد وزُبيد ومَذْحِج كلها، وبعث معه خالد بن سعيد بن العاص على الصدقة، فكان معه في بلاده حتى توفي رسول الله ﷺ . قُدوم عَمْرو بن مَعْدِ يكَرِب في أُناس من زُبيد قال ابن إسحاق (٣) : وقد كان عمرو بن معد يكرب قال لقيس بن مَكْشُوح المُرادي، حين انتهى إليهم أمر رسول الله ﷺ : يا قيسُ، إنّك سيّدُ قومِكَ، وقد ذُكر لنا أن رجلًا من قُريش يُقال له مُحمَّدٌ قد خرجَ بالحجاز، يُقال إنه نبيٌّ، فانطلقْ بنا إليه حتى نعلَمَ علمَه، فإن كان نبيًا كما يقول، فإنه لن يَخْفى علينا (٤) ، وإذا (٥) لقيناه اتّبعناه، وإن كان غير ذلك علمنا علمَه، فأبى عليه قيس ذلك، وسفَّه رأيَه، فركب عمرُو بن مَعْدِ يكَرِب حتّى قَدِم على رسول الله ﷺ ، فأسلمَ، وصدَّقه، وآمن به، فلما بلغَ ذلك قيسَ بن مَكْشوح أوعد عَمْرًا وقال: خالَفني وتركَ أمري ورأيي. فقال عمرو بن معد يكرب في ذلك (٦) : [مجزوء الوافر]
(١) سيرة ابن هشام (٢/ ٥٨٢ - ٥٨٣). (٢) ورد البيتان في الإصابة (٣/ ٢٠٥) برواية (يمَّمت راحلتي أمام محمد *) في البيت الثاني بالإضافة إلى السيرة النبوية (٢/ ٣٠٧) وشرح أبو ذر الخشني ألفاظهما في شرح السيرة (٤٤٢ - ٤٤٣). (٣) سيرة ابن هشام (٢/ ٥٨٣ - ٥٨٤) وانظر طبقات ابن سعد (١/ ٣٢٨). (٤) في السيرة: (عليك). (٥) في الأصول: (إذا) بلا واو استدركتها من السيرة. (٦) شعر عمرو بن معد يكرب (٨٧ - ٨٩): بالإضافة إلى السيرة النبوية (٢/ ٥٨٣ - ٥٨٤): وجاء تفسير الأبيات في شرح السيرة لأبي ذر الخشني (٤٤٣ - ٤٤٥).

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