11 – Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to me and said: Abū al-Yaqẓān informed me, from Muḥammad ibn ʿĀʾishah, who said:
“Among Quraysh there were three households famous for their tyranny, and they were all wiped out together.
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The first was the clan of Subayʿah from the sons of Tamīm ibn Murrah. Of them Ibn Judʿān recited:
[waafir]
When the sons of Subayʿah left me all alone,
what aim, what scout is left for me to pursue?
I sit, after them, a solitary, lonely man,
now that the lithe, black-lioned champions are gone. -
The second was Banu ʿAṭiyyah of the descendants of ʿAmr ibn Huṣayṣ—the kinsmen of Qays ibn ʿAdī from Banu Sahm—about whom Abū Ṭālib said:
[ṭawīl]
How foolish are the minds of a people who exchanged
the sons of Khalaf for us—an ill-fated swap with brutish souls. -
As for the third house, it was Banu al-Sabbāq ibn ʿAbd al-Dār ibn Quṣayy. Whenever a crime was committed against someone else, they would claim it on the strength of their own pride, until they were destroyed. A poet said of them:
[basīṭ]
If you should ask me for a dwelling of honor,
it is the house of Banu al-Sabbāq in al-Sanad.”