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 "id": "work/asma-bint-marwan-verses-against-the-ansar",
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 "slug": "asma-bint-marwan-verses-against-the-ansar",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أبيات عصماء بنت مروان في عيب الأنصار وطاعتهم «الأتاوي»",
  "en": "Asma' bint Marwan's verses reviling the Ansar for obeying 'the stranger'"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أربعة أبيات على المتقارب تهجو فيها عصماء بني مالك والنبيت وعوفاً وبني الخزرج: أطعتم غريباً ليس من مراد ولا مذحج، ترجونه بعد قتل الرؤوس كما يُرتجى مرق المنضج، وتتمنى رجلاً أنفاً يبتغي غرّته فيقطع أمل المرتجي.",
  "en": "Four verses in which Asma' reviles Banu Malik, al-Nabit, Awf and Banu al-Khazraj: you obeyed a stranger of neither Murad nor Madhhij, hoping in him after the killing of your chiefs as one hopes for broth from a cooked pot; and she wishes for a proud man who would catch him unawares and cut off the hope of those who hope."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "literature",
  "dissent-heresy-freethought",
  "women"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "poem",
  "languages": [
   "ar"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 p. 286",
   "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. 286; text not reproduced; the first hemistich is obscene in the original and the editors print it as is"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أربعة أبيات ينسبها ابن إسحاق إلى [[person/asma-bint-marwan|عصماء بنت مروان]] ويقول إنها قالتها «تعيب الإسلام وأهله». {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285} تبدأ بسبّ فاحش لبني مالك والنبيت وعوف وبني الخزرج، ثم تقول: أطعتم «أتاوياً» أي غريباً من غيركم، لا من مراد ولا من مذحج، ترجونه بعد قتل رؤوسكم كما يُرتجى مرق القدر المنضج؛ وتختم بتمنّي رجل «أنف» يترفع عن الضيم يبتغي غرّته فيقطع من أمل المرتجي. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286} يُعرض بالمعنى ويُقرأ النص في الطبعة، وقد طبعه المحققون كما هو."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الجواب",
     "markdown": "أجابها [[person/hassan-ibn-thabit|حسان بن ثابت]] بأبيات على الوزن نفسه؛ انظر [[work/hassan-reply-to-asma-bint-marwan|جوابه]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "في المتحف",
     "markdown": "القصيدة شاهد على لغة المعارضة في المدينة: النبي عندها «أتاوي» غريب لا نسب له في قبائل اليمن التي ينتسب إليها الأنصار، والأنصار قد فقدوا رؤوسهم في بدر وأحد؛ وفيها تحريض صريح على اغتياله، وهو ما تدور عليه قراءة الخبر في [[event/killing-of-asma-bint-marwan|مدخل مقتلها]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/asma-bint-marwan-verses-against-the-ansar",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Four verses that Ibn Ishaq attributes to [[person/asma-bint-marwan|Asma bint Marwan]], and says she composed \"to disparage Islam and its people\". {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285} They open with a coarse insult to Banu Malik, Banu Nabit, Awf and Banu al-Khazraj. She then says that they obeyed a stranger, an \"atawi\", meaning a man from outside your own tribes, neither of Murad nor of Madhhij, whom you hope for after your leaders were killed, as one hopes for the broth of a cooked cooking-pot. The verses end by wishing for a proud man who refuses humiliation, seeking to deceive him and cut off the hope of the one who hopes. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286} The sense is given here; the text is read in the edition, which the editors printed as it stands."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The reply",
     "markdown": "[[person/hassan-ibn-thabit|Hassan ibn Thabit]] answered her with verses in the same metre; see [[work/hassan-reply-to-asma-bint-marwan|his reply]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the museum",
     "markdown": "The poem is evidence of the language of opposition in Medina. To her, the Prophet is a stranger, an \"atawi\", with no lineage among the Yemeni tribes to which the Ansar trace their descent, and the Ansar had lost their leaders at Badr and Uhud. It contains an open incitement to kill him, which is the key to reading the account in [[event/killing-of-asma-bint-marwan|the entry on her killing]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/asma-bint-marwan-verses-against-the-ansar",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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   "note": "«أتاوياً من غيركم»",
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   "type": "responded_to",
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   "note": "أجابها حسان",
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  "event/killing-of-asma-bint-marwan",
  "person/asma-bint-marwan",
  "work/hassan-reply-to-asma-bint-marwan",
  "event/killing-of-abu-afak",
  "person/hassan-ibn-thabit",
  "group/banu-khatma",
  "group/banu-umayya-ibn-zayd",
  "place/medina"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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