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 "id": "work/amr-ibn-al-ahtam-satire-of-qays-ibn-asim",
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 "slug": "amr-ibn-al-ahtam-satire-of-qays-ibn-asim",
 "label": {
  "ar": "هجاء عمرو بن الأهتم لقيس بن عاصم «ظلت مفترش الهلباء تشتمني»",
  "en": "Amr ibn al-Ahtam's satire of Qays ibn Asim"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بيتان من هجاء عمرو بن الأهتم لقيس بن عاصم حين بلغه أن قيساً حقّره عند النبي: شتمه عند الرسول فلم يَصدق ولم يُصب، وسؤدد منقر واسع وسؤدد قيس ضيق. ترك ابن هشام بيتاً ثالثاً لأن الشاعر أقذع فيه.",
  "en": "Two verses in which Amr ibn al-Ahtam lampooned Qays ibn Asim after learning that Qays had belittled him before the Prophet: Qays insulted him before the Messenger and was neither truthful nor right; Amr's lordship is wide, Qays's is cramped. Ibn Hisham omitted a third verse as obscene."
 },
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  "words"
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 "regions": [
  "arabia"
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  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
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 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "literature"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "poem",
  "genre": [
   "poetry"
  ],
  "made": {
   "by_muslims": true,
   "basis": "unverified",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  "authors": [
   "person/amr-ibn-al-ahtam"
  ],
  "language": "language/arabic",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 212-213",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-8a"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Fable 5.1; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 212-213"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بيتان من الهجاء قالهما [[person/amr-ibn-al-ahtam|عمرو بن الأهتم]] في [[person/qays-ibn-asim|قيس بن عاصم]] بعد [[event/delegation-of-banu-tamim|وفد بني تميم]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المناسبة",
     "markdown": "كان الوفد قد خلّف عمرو بن الأهتم في إبلهم لأنه أصغرهم سناً، وكان قيس بن عاصم يبغضه، فقال للنبي إنه غلام حدث خُلّف في الرحال، وأزرى به؛ فأعطاه النبي مثل ما أعطى القوم. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/212} {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213} فلما بلغ عمراً ما قاله قيس هجاه. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مضمون البيتين",
     "markdown": "يقول عمرو إن قيساً ظل يشتمه عند الرسول فلم يَصدق ولم يُصب، وإن قومه سادوا سؤدداً واسعاً بينما سؤدد قيس باد النواجذ مقعٍ على الذنب. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213} ومطلعه: «ظلت مفترش الهلباء تشتمني عند الرسول فلم تصدق ولم تصب». {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرواية",
     "markdown": "يقول ابن هشام إنه بقي بيت واحد تركه لأن الشاعر أقذع فيه. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213} ويفسّر المحققون «الهلباء» بما كنّى به الشاعر عن دبر قيس، و«الرهو» بالمتسع، و«مقعٍ على الذنب» بالجالس على أليتيه ضامّاً ساقيه. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/amr-ibn-al-ahtam-satire-of-qays-ibn-asim",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Two verses of satire composed by [[person/amr-ibn-al-ahtam|Amr ibn al-Ahtam]] against [[person/qays-ibn-asim|Qays ibn Asim]], after [[event/delegation-of-banu-tamim|the delegation of Banu Tamim]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The occasion",
     "markdown": "The delegation had left Amr ibn al-Ahtam with their camels because he was the youngest of them. Qays ibn Asim, who disliked him, told the Prophet that he was a young lad left behind with the baggage and belittled him; the Prophet gave him the same as the rest of the group. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/212} {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213} When what Qays had said reached Amr, he satirised him. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "What the two verses say",
     "markdown": "Amr says that Qays kept insulting him to the Messenger, and that he was neither truthful nor correct. His own people have won wide renown, while Qays's pride is ruined, sitting crouched on his rump. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213} The verses open with an address to a woman who keeps abusing him before the Messenger. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The account",
     "markdown": "Ibn Hisham says that one verse remained which he left out, because the poet used coarse language in it. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213} The editors explain \"al-Halba'\" as the euphemism the poet used for Qays's rear, \"al-Rahw\" as wide, and \"muqi'in ala al-dhanab\" as sitting on one's buttocks with the legs drawn in. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/213}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/amr-ibn-al-ahtam-satire-of-qays-ibn-asim",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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