Verses attributed to al-Zibriqan ibn Badr, 'We came so that people would know our merit'

Four verses on the rhyme of the mim, which Ibn Hisham, not Ibn Ishaq, gives for al-Zibriqan ibn Badr when he came to the Prophet ﷺ in the delegation of Banu Tamim. ¹

The poet says that they came so that people would know their excellence when the seasons of gatherings were near, that they are the branches of people in every place, and that there is no one in the land of the Hijaz like Darim. They drive back those who would instruct them when they become proud, and strike the head of the proud and the arrogant. In every raid they make in Najd or in the land of the foreigners, the quarter of the spoils is theirs. ¹

One of the verses says: "There is none in the land of the Hijaz like Darim." ¹

Ibn Hisham attributes the verses to "some of the people of knowledge of poetry among Banu Tamim", and they are an addition of his to the transmission of Ibn Ishaq. ¹ He had noted on the previous page that most people of knowledge in poetry deny that some of what is transmitted for al-Zibriqan is his, so the attribution here remains a transmission. ²

"Al-mawasim" are places where people gather once a year, such as the pilgrimage, 'Ukaz and Dhu al-Majaz; "al-mu'limun" are those who mark themselves in war with a sign, and another reading is "al-alamin"; "al-asid" is the proud one who does not turn his neck; "al-mirba'" is taking the quarter of the spoils, so the meaning is that they are chiefs; "Najd" is what rises from the land, and the poet means the lands of the Arabs; Darim is a clan of Banu Tamim. ¹

Hassan answered it with his qasida "Hal al-Majd illa al-Su'dad al-Ud wal-Nada". ¹