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 "id": "work/zibriqan-boast-poem",
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 "slug": "zibriqan-boast-poem",
 "label": {
  "ar": "قصيدة الزبرقان بن بدر في الفخر بقومه بين يدي النبي",
  "en": "Al-Zibriqan ibn Badr's boasting poem before the Prophet"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "قصيدة الفخر التي قام بها الزبرقان بن بدر في مفاخرة وفد بني تميم بمسجد النبي سنة 9هـ: نحن الكرام، منا الملوك، نُطعم عند القحط، ونُفاخر فنغلب. أجابه حسان بن ثابت. يثبت ابن هشام روايتين لبعض ألفاظها رواهما له بعض بني تميم.",
  "en": "The boast al-Zibriqan ibn Badr declaimed in the Banu Tamim delegation's contest at the Prophet's mosque in 9 AH: we are the noble, ours are the kings, we feed in drought and win every boast. Hassan ibn Thabit answered it. Ibn Hisham records two variant readings he heard from men of Tamim."
 },
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  "arabia"
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  "period/prophetic-era"
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  "literature"
 ],
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  "earliest": 630.9991991622005,
  "latest": 631.9985352197195
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0631~",
   "hijri": "0009",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "سنة الوفود عن أبي عبيدة (ص205)",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa",
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
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  "kind": "poem",
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   "poetry"
  ],
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   "by_muslims": false,
   "basis": "unverified",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  "authors": [
   "person/al-zibriqan-ibn-badr"
  ],
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  "composed": {
   "edtf": "0631~",
   "hijri": "0009",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "سنة الوفود عن أبي عبيدة (ص205)",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa",
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 208-209",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-8a"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa",
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Fable 5.1; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 208-209"
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "قصيدة قصيرة على روي العين قام بها [[person/al-zibriqan-ibn-badr|الزبرقان بن بدر]] شاعر [[event/delegation-of-banu-tamim|وفد بني تميم]] حين فاخر الوفد النبي في مسجده، بعد خطبة عطارد وجواب ثابت بن قيس. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/208}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مضمون القصيدة",
     "markdown": "يفخر الشاعر بأن قومه الكرام لا يعادلهم حي، منهم الملوك وفيهم تُنصب البِيَع، وأنهم قهروا الأحياء كلها، وأن مُطعِمهم يُطعم عند القحط إذا انقطع المطر، وأن سادة الناس تأتيهم من كل أرض فيصطنعونهم، وأنهم ينحرون الإبل العظام للنازلين حتى يشبعوا، وأنهم إذا فاخروا حياً عادوا وقد قُطع رأسه، وأنهم يأبون ولا يأبى لهم أحد. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/208}\n\nومطلعها: «نحن الكرام فلا حي يعادلنا منا الملوك وفينا تُنصب البِيَع». {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/208}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرواية",
     "markdown": "يذكر ابن هشام أن الشطر الأول يُروى «منا الملوك وفينا تُقسم الرَّبَع»، وأن بيتاً آخر يُروى «من كل أرض هواناً ثم نُتَّبع»، وأن بعض بني تميم رواها له. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/209} ويضيف المحققون أن «تقسم الربع» إشارة إلى أن الرئيس كان يأخذ ربع الغنيمة في الجاهلية، فالمعنى أنهم رؤساء وسادة. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/209}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "من شرح المحققين",
     "markdown": "«البِيَع» مواضع الصلوات والعبادات، و«القزع» السحاب الرقيق فالمراد أنهم يُطعمون إذا لم تمطرهم السماء، و«هويّاً» سراعاً، و«الكوم» الإبل العظيمة السنام، و«في أرومتنا» أي أن هذا الكرم متأصل فيهم. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/208}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الجواب",
     "markdown": "أجاب عنها [[person/hassan-ibn-thabit|حسان بن ثابت]] بقصيدته [[work/hassan-reply-to-zibriqan|«إن الذوائب من فهر وإخوتهم»]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/209}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/zibriqan-boast-poem",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A short qasida on the rhyme of the ayn, recited by [[person/al-zibriqan-ibn-badr|al-Zibriqan ibn Badr]], the poet of [[event/delegation-of-banu-tamim|the delegation of Banu Tamim]], when the delegation boasted before the Prophet in his mosque, after the speech of Utarid and the reply of Thabit ibn Qays. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/208}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Content of the qasida",
     "markdown": "The poet boasts that no tribe equals his noble people: among them are the kings, and among them churches are raised. They have overcome all the living, and when rain fails in a drought, their feeder feeds the people. The lords of the people come to them from every land and seek their patronage. They slaughter great camels for the guests until the guests are satisfied; and when they boast over a tribe, that tribe returns with its head cut off. They refuse, and no one refuses them. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/208}\n\nOne of its lines reads: \"We are the noble; no living tribe equals us; among us are kings, and among us churches are raised.\" {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/208}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The transmission",
     "markdown": "Ibn Hisham says that the first half of the line is also transmitted as \"among us are kings, and among us the quarter is divided\", and that another line is transmitted as \"from every land, humiliation, then we are followed\"; some of Banu Tamim transmitted it to him. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/209} The editors add that \"the quarter is divided\" refers to the chief taking a quarter of the spoils in the pre-Islamic period, so the meaning is that they are chiefs and lords. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/209}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Commentators' glosses",
     "markdown": "\"Al-biya\" are the places of prayer and worship; \"al-qiza'\" is thin cloud, so the meaning is that they feed people when the sky does not rain on them; \"huwiyyan\" means swiftly; \"al-kawm\" are great camels with high humps; \"fi arumatina\" means that this generosity is rooted in them. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/208}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The reply",
     "markdown": "[[person/hassan-ibn-thabit|Hassan ibn Thabit]] answered it with his qasida [[work/hassan-reply-to-zibriqan|\"Inna al-Dhawa'ib min Fahr wa Ikhwatihim\"]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/209}"
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
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