{
 "id": "person/durayd-ibn-al-simma",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "durayd-ibn-al-simma",
 "label": {
  "en": "Durayd ibn al-Simma",
  "ar": "دريد بن الصمة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A legendary pre-Islamic knight, tribal champion and poet of Banu Jusham (Hawazin); an old, blind veteran carried in a litter at Hunayn, he vehemently criticized Malik ibn Awf's strategy of bringing women and herds into battle, and was slain at Awtas.",
  "ar": "فارس هوازن وشاعرها وسيد بني جشم في الجاهلية؛ شيخ كبير كفيف حُمل في هودجه يوم حنين، وأنكر على مالك بن عوف سوق الأموال والنساء قائلاً «وهل يرد المنهزم شيء؟»، وقُتل بأوطاس."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia",
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "battles",
  "literature",
  "the-elderly"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 629.9998631046496,
  "latest": 630.0847382218346
 },
 "display": {
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0630-01~",
   "hijri": "0008-10",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "قتل بأوطاس إثر هزيمة حنين.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "دريد بن الصمة معاوية بن الحارث الجشمي"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "general",
   "poet"
  ],
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0630-01~",
   "hijri": "0008-10",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "قتل بأوطاس إثر هزيمة حنين.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "military-opponent",
    "toward": "group/early-muslims",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "حضر حنين في بني جشم مستشاراً حربياً وقُتل بأوطاس.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 80–82, 93–94",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-2a"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 80–94"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "فارس [[group/hawazin|هوازن]] وشاعرها وسيد [[group/banu-jusham|بني جشم]]؛ كان شيخًا طاعنًا في السن كفيف البصر حُمل في هودجه يوم حنين، وأنكر خطة [[person/malik-ibn-awf|مالك بن عوف]] في سوق الذراري والأموال، وقُتل ب[[place/awtas|أوطاس]] {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/80-82, 93-94}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "موقفه في حنين",
     "markdown": "لما نزل الناس بأوطاس سمع دريد بكاء الأطفال وثغاء الغنم، فاستدعى مالك بن عوف وقال له: «يا مالك، إنك قد أصبحت رئيس قومك، وإن هذا يوم كائن له ما بعده من الأيام؛ ما لي أسمع رغاء البعير ونهاق الحمير وبكاء الصغير؟»؛ فأجاب مالك: «سقت مع الناس أموالهم ونساءهم ليقاتل كل رجل عن أهله وماله»، فزجره دريد وقال: «راعي ضأن والله! وهل يرد المنهزم شيء؟ إنها إن كانت لك لم ينفعك إلا رجل بسيفه، وإن كانت عليك فضحت في أهلك ومالك» {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/81}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "مقتله",
     "markdown": "بعد هزيمة حنين لحق به [[person/rabia-ibn-rufy|ربيعة بن رفيع السلمي]] بأوطاس وهو في شجاره، فضربه بسيفه فلم يغن، فقال له دريد: «بئس ما سلحك أمك! خذ سيفي هذا فاضرب به وارفع عن العظام»، فقتله بسيفه {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/93-94}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "فارس وشاعر حكيم مسن من قبيلة هوازن، حذر قائده من المخاطرة بالنساء والأموال في المعركة، لكن القائد لم يسمع كلامه فوقعت الهزيمة."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/durayd-ibn-al-simma",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "[[group/hawazin|Hawazin]]'s knight and poet and chief of [[group/banu-jusham|Banu Jusham]]; a very old, blind man carried in his howdah on the day of Hunayn. He denounced [[person/malik-ibn-awf|Malik ibn Awf]]'s plan of driving out the dependants and the wealth, and was killed at [[place/awtas|Awtas]] {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa pp. 80-82, 93-94}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His stand at Hunayn",
     "markdown": "When the people alighted at Awtas, Durayd heard the children crying and the sheep bleating; he summoned Malik ibn Awf and said: \"Malik, you have become your people's chief, and this is a day that will have days after it — why do I hear the camels' moaning, the donkeys' braying and the infants' crying?\" Malik answered: \"I drove the people's wealth and women with them so every man fights for his family and his property.\" Durayd rebuked him: \"a sheep-herder, by God! Does anything turn back the routed? If the day is yours nothing but a man with his sword will help you; and if it is against you, you are disgraced in your family and your wealth\" {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/81}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His death",
     "markdown": "After Hunayn's rout [[person/rabia-ibn-rufy|Rabi'a ibn Rufay' al-Sulami]] caught up with him at Awtas in his litter and struck him with his sword — to no effect. Durayd told him: \"how ill your mother armed you! Take this sword of mine, strike with it and raise it off the bones\" — and he killed him with his own sword {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/93-94}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "An aged, wise knight-poet of Hawazin who warned his leader against risking the women and wealth in battle; the leader did not hear his words, and the defeat came."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/durayd-ibn-al-simma",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-abbas",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-abi-umayya",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-khatal",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-masud",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-ubayy",
  "person/abu-amir-al-ashari",
  "person/abu-bakr",
  "person/abu-dharr-al-ghifari",
  "person/abu-hurayra",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb"
 ],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "group/banu-jusham",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/hawazin",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-hunayn",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "military-adviser",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/expedition-to-awtas",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "killed-leader",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
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  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/battle-of-hunayn",
  "group/banu-jusham",
  "group/hawazin",
  "group/banu-nasr",
  "person/malik-ibn-awf",
  "event/expedition-to-awtas",
  "event/siege-of-taif",
  "person/al-shayma-bint-al-harith"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}