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 "id": "work/abu-afak-verses-against-the-prophet",
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 "slug": "abu-afak-verses-against-the-prophet",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أبيات أبي عفك في الراكب الذي صدّع أولاد قيلة",
  "en": "Abu Afak's verses on the rider who split the sons of Qayla"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "خمسة أبيات يوردها ابن إسحاق لأبي عفك: عاش دهراً فما رأى داراً ولا جمعاً أبرّ عهوداً من أولاد قيلة، يهدّ الجبال جمعهم ولم يخضعوا؛ فصدّعهم راكب جاءهم بحلال وحرام لشتى معاً؛ فلو أن بالعز صدّقوا أو الملك تابعوا تُبّعاً.",
  "en": "Five verses Ibn Ishaq gives to Abu Afak: he had lived an age and never seen a house or gathering truer to its pledges than the sons of Qayla, whose assembly could level mountains and never bowed; then a rider split them, bringing lawful and forbidden together; had they believed in might or followed a king, they would have followed Tubba'."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
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 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "literature",
  "dissent-heresy-freethought"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "poem",
  "languages": [
   "ar"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 p. 285",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-14"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Fable 5.1; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 p. 285; text not reproduced"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "خمسة أبيات على المتقارب ينسبها ابن إسحاق إلى [[person/abu-afak|أبي عفك]] ويجعلها علامة ظهور نفاقه. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285} معناها: أنه عاش دهراً فما رأى من الناس داراً ولا جمعاً أبرّ عهوداً وأوفى لمن يعاقد من أولاد قيلة، جمعُهم يهدّ الجبال ولم يخضعوا؛ ثم صدّعهم راكب جاءهم، «حلال حرام لشتى معاً»، أي يحلّ ويحرّم أموراً متفرقة؛ فلو أنهم بالعزّ صدّقوا أو الملكَ تابعوا لتابعوا تُبّعاً. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285} ويفسّر المحققون قيلة بالمرأة التي يُنسب إليها الأوس والخزرج، وتُبّعاً بأحد ملوك اليمن. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "في المتحف",
     "markdown": "الأبيات من أقدم ما حُفظ من شعر المعارضة في المدينة: احتجاج بوحدة الأنصار القبلية على «الراكب» الغريب الذي قسم صفهم، وتعريض بأنهم لو أرادوا ملكاً لاتبعوا ملكاً حقيقياً. يُعرض بالمعنى، ويُقرأ النص في الطبعة؛ وعاقبته في [[event/killing-of-abu-afak|خبر مقتله]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/abu-afak-verses-against-the-prophet",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Five verses in the metre of al-mutaqarib, which Ibn Ishaq attributes to [[person/abu-afak|Abu Afak]] and which he presents as a sign of the revelation of his hypocrisy. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285} Their sense: he has lived a long time and has not seen, among people in any house or group, men more faithful to their pledges, or more loyal to those who make an agreement with them, than the sons of Qayla. Their gathering could crush mountains, and yet they did not submit. Then a rider came to them and split them, \"lawful and unlawful mixed together\", meaning he makes lawful and forbids various matters that scatter them. If they had believed in glory, or followed a king, they would have followed a true king. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285} The commentators explain Qayla as the woman to whom the Aws and the Khazraj are traced, and Tubba' as one of the kings of Yemen. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the museum",
     "markdown": "These verses are among the oldest surviving opposition poetry from Medina. They protest the unity of the Ansar's tribal bonds against the strange \"rider\" who divided their ranks, and they hint that if they wanted a king, they would have followed a real one. The sense is given here; the text is read in the edition. Their consequence appears in [[event/killing-of-abu-afak|the account of his killing]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/abu-afak-verses-against-the-prophet",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
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   "note": "«راكب جاءهم» بحسب سياق ابن إسحاق",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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