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  "ar": "أبيات فروة بن عمرو الجذامي في محبسه وعند صلبه",
  "en": "Farwa ibn Amr al-Judhami's verses in prison and at his crucifixion"
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  "ar": "أبيات قالها فروة بن عمرو الجذامي حين حبسه الروم لإسلامه: يخاطب سليمى ويذكر الروم بين الباب والقروان، ويوصي ألا تكحل العين بعده، ويخاطب أبا كبيشة بأنه لا يُقطع لسانه وسط الأعزة وأنه جمع جودة وشجاعة وبياناً؛ وبيتان حين أجمعوا على صلبه بماء عفراء، وبيت يرويه الزهري قاله حين قُدّم ليُقتل: بلّغ سراة المسلمين بأنني سِلم لربي أعظمي ومقامي.",
  "en": "Verses Farwa ibn Amr al-Judhami composed when the Romans imprisoned him for his Islam: he addresses Sulayma, describes the Romans between the gate and the troughs, asks that no eye be kohl'd after him, and tells Abu Kubaysha that his tongue is not cut among the mighty and that he has gathered generosity, courage and eloquence; two verses when they resolved to crucify him at the water of Afra', and one verse al-Zuhri reports he said as he was brought out to die: tell the chiefs of the Muslims that my bones and my standing are at peace with my Lord."
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  "converts-and-leavers"
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 p. 238",
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   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-9b"
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أبيات قالها [[person/farwa-ibn-amr-al-judhami|فروة بن عمرو الجذامي]] في محبس الروم وعند صلبه، يوردها ابن إسحاق في خبر [[event/martyrdom-of-farwa-al-judhami|استشهاده]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أبيات المحبس",
     "markdown": "قصيدة على روي النون: طرقته سليمى بعد ساعة من الليل والروم بين الباب والقروان، فصدّها الخيال وساءه ما رأى، وهمّ أن يغفي وقد أبكاه؛ ويوصي سليمى ألا تكحل العين بعده بإثمد، ويخاطب أبا كبيشة بأنه وسط الأعزة لا يُقطع لسانه، فإن هلك فقدوا أخاهم وإن بقي عرفوا مكانه، وقد جمع أجلّ ما جمع الفتى من جودة وشجاعة وبيان. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عند الصلب",
     "markdown": "لما أجمعت الروم على صلبه على ماء يقال له [[place/afra|عفراء]] بفلسطين قال بيتين: ألا هل أتى سليمى أن حليلها على ماء عفراء فوق إحدى الرواحل، على ناقة لم يضرب الفحل أمها مشذّبة أطرافها بالمناجل. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238} ويفسّر المحققون «إحدى الرواحل» بالخشبة التي صُلب عليها، و«المشذّبة» التي أُزيلت أغصانها. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238} وزعم الزهري أنهم لما قدّموه ليقتلوه قال: «بلّغ سراة المسلمين بأنني سِلمٌ لربي أعظمي ومقامي»، ثم ضربوا عنقه وصلبوه على ذلك الماء. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "من شرح المحققين",
     "markdown": "«الموهن» بعد ساعة من الليل، و«القروان» جمع قرو وهو حويض من خشب تُسقى فيه الدواب، و«أغفي» أنام نوماً خفيفاً، و«الإثمد» ضرب من الكحل، و«لا يُحص» لا يُقطع؛ وفي شرح المواهب للزرقاني «عفراء» ممدودة وقصره في الشعر ضرورة، وفي الأصول «عفرا». {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/farwa-al-judhami-prison-verses",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Verses composed by [[person/farwa-ibn-amr-al-judhami|Farwa ibn Amr al-Judhami]] in the Byzantine prison and at his crucifixion. Ibn Ishaq gives them in the account of [[event/martyrdom-of-farwa-al-judhami|his martyrdom]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The verses from prison",
     "markdown": "A qasida on the rhyme of the nun. A visitor, Sulayma, came to him an hour into the night while the Byzantines stood between the door and the gate; the apparition held her back and what he saw troubled him, and he was about to sleep but was overcome with weeping. He instructs Sulayma never to put kohl on her eyes after him. He addresses Abu Kabisha, saying that he is among the honoured and his tongue will not be cut off; if he dies, they will have lost their brother, and if he lives, they will know where he is. The poem gathers the finest of the qualities a young man can have: generosity, courage and eloquence. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "At the crucifixion",
     "markdown": "When the Byzantines agreed to crucify him at a water called [[place/afra|Afra]] in Palestine, he said two verses: they ask whether Sulayma has heard that her husband is at the water of Afra, on one of the mounts, on a camel whose mother has never been mated, its ends trimmed with sickles. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238} The editors explain \"one of the mounts\" as the wooden post on which he was crucified, and \"trimmed\" as stripped of its branches. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238} Al-Zuhri claimed that when they brought him forward to kill him, he said: \"Convey to the leaders of the Muslims that I am at peace with my Lord, my bones and my station,\" and then they struck off his head and crucified him at that water. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Commentators' glosses",
     "markdown": "\"Al-Mawhin\" means an hour into the night; \"al-Qiran\" is the plural of \"qaru\", a wooden trough from which animals are watered; \"aghfa\" means to sleep lightly; \"al-ithmid\" is a kind of kohl; \"la yuhas\" means will not be cut off. In the commentary of al-Zurqani on \"al-Mawahib\", \"Afra\" is written with a long vowel, and its shortening in verse is a licence; in the original sources it is \"Afra\". {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    }
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     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
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