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 "label": {
  "ar": "قصيدة مالك بن النمط «ذكرت رسول الله في فحمة الدجى»",
  "en": "Malik ibn al-Namat's poem 'I remembered the Messenger of God in the blackness of night'"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "قصيدة على روي الدال قالها مالك بن النمط الهمداني بعد كتاب النبي لهمدان: يذكر رسول الله في فحمة الدجى وهو بأعلى رحرحان وصلدد والإبل تسير بركبانها في طريق بيّن، ويحلف برب الراقصات إلى منى أن رسول الله فيهم مصدَّق، رسول أتى من عند ذي العرش مهتدٍ، ما حملت ناقة فوق رحلها أشد على أعدائه من محمد ولا أعطى إذا جاءه طالب العرف. ومعها رجزان قيلا عند القدوم.",
  "en": "A dal-rhymed poem Malik ibn al-Namat al-Hamdani composed after the Prophet's letter to Hamdan: he remembered the Messenger of God in the blackness of night at the heights of Rahrahan and Saldad as the camels carried their riders along a clear road, and swore by the Lord of the camels pacing to Mina that the Messenger of God among them was believed, a messenger come guided from the Lord of the Throne; no camel ever bore on its saddle one harder on his enemies than Muhammad nor more generous when a seeker of favour came. Two rajaz chants said on arrival go with it."
 },
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  "period/prophetic-era"
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   "basis": "unverified",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
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   "person/malik-ibn-al-namt"
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  "language": "language/arabic",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 244-246",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-9c"
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "قصيدة على روي الدال قالها [[person/malik-ibn-al-namt|مالك بن النمط]] في النبي بعد أن كتب لهمدان [[work/letter-to-hamdan|كتابه]]، يوردها ابن هشام في ختام [[event/delegation-of-hamdan|وفد همدان]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرجزان",
     "markdown": "عند القدوم كان مالك ورجل آخر يرتجزان بالقوم: يقول أحدهما إن همدان خير سوقة وأقيال ليس لها في العالمين أمثال، محلها الهضب ومنها الأبطال؛ ويقول الآخر إنهم جاوزوا سواد الريف في غبار الصيف والخريف على إبل مخطّمة بحبال الليف. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/244}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مضمون القصيدة",
     "markdown": "يقول الشاعر إنه ذكر رسول الله في فحمة الدجى وهم بأعلى رحرحان وصلدد، والإبل الغائرة العيون تشتد في سيرها بركبانها في طريق بيّن ممتد، على كل ناقة قوية تمرّ بهم مرّ الظليم الضخم، صوادر بالركبان من هضب قردد. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245} ثم يحلف برب الراقصات إلى منى أن رسول الله فيهم مصدَّق، رسول أتى من عند ذي العرش مهتدٍ، فما حملت ناقة فوق رحلها أشد على أعدائه من محمد، وأعطى إذا ما طالب العرف جاءه وأمضى بحد المشرفي المهند. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245} {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/246}\n\nومنها: «فما حملت من ناقة فوق رحلها أشدَّ على أعدائه من محمد». {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/246}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "من شرح المحققين",
     "markdown": "«الفحمة» السواد و«الدجى» الظلمة، ورحرحان وصلدد موضعان، و«الخوص» الغائرة العيون، و«تغتلي» تشتد في سيرها، و«اللاحب» الطريق البيّن، و«الجسرة» الناقة القوية، و«الهجف» الذكر الضخم من النعام، و«الراقصات» الإبل، و«صوادر» رواجع، و«القردد» ما ارتفع من الأرض. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/malik-ibn-al-namt-poem",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A qasida on the rhyme of the dal, composed by [[person/malik-ibn-al-namt|Malik ibn al-Namt]] about the Prophet, after the Prophet wrote his [[work/letter-to-hamdan|letter]] to Hamdan. Ibn Hisham gives it at the end of [[event/delegation-of-hamdan|the delegation of Hamdan]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The two rajaz verses",
     "markdown": "On arrival, Malik and another man chanted verses to the people. One said that Hamdan are the best of the commoners and the kings, and that there are no equals to them in the world; their dwelling is the high land, and from them come the champions. The other said that they had crossed the dark lands of the countryside in the dust of summer and autumn, on camels whose noses were tied with palm-fibre ropes. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/244}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Content of the qasida",
     "markdown": "The poet says that he mentioned the Messenger of God in the blackness of night, while they were on the high ground of Rahrahan and Saladad. The camels with sunken eyes press on with their riders along a clear, long road. On every strong she-camel they pass by, like a great ostrich, returning from the high land of Qurdud. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245} He then swears by the Lord of the dancing camels to Mina that the Messenger of God is confirmed among them, a messenger who came from the One of the Throne, rightly guided. No camel ever carried on its saddle anything more grievous to his enemies than Muhammad, and when someone asked for kindness he gave, and he carried out his judgement with the sword of Hind, the keen blade. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245} {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/246}\n\nOne of its lines says: \"No camel has ever carried upon her saddle anything more grievous to his enemies than Muhammad.\" {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/246}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Commentators' glosses",
     "markdown": "\"Al-Fahma\" is blackness and \"al-Duja\" darkness; Rahrahan and Saladad are two places; \"al-Khawṣ\" are those whose eyes are sunken; \"tighlī\" means press on hard; \"al-lahib\" is the clear road; \"al-jasra\" is a strong she-camel; \"al-hajif\" is the great male ostrich; \"al-raqisat\" are camels; \"sawadir\" are those returning; \"al-Qurdud\" is what rises from the land. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245}"
    }
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     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
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