لَقَدْ أَصْبَحَ أَبُو مُحَمَّد بِهذَا الْمَكَانِ غَرِيباً!
Abu Muhammad (Talhah) lies here away from his own place.
أَمَا وَاللهِ لَقَدْ كَنْتُ أَكْرَهُ أَنْ تَكُونَ قُرَيْشٌ قَتْلَى تَحْتَ بُطُونِ الْكَوَاكِبِ!
By Allah, I did not like that the Quraysh should lie killed under the stars.
أَدْرَكْتُ وَتْرِي مِنْ بَنِي عَبْدِ مَنَاف،
I have avenged myself with the descendants of ‘Abd Manaf,
وَأَفْلَتَتْنِي أَعْيَانُ بَنِي جُمَحَ،
but the chief persons of Banu Jumah (1) have escaped me.
لَقَدْ أَتْلَعُوا أَعْنَاقَهُمْ إِلَى أَمْر لَمْ يَكُونُوا أَهْلَهُ
They had stretched their necks towards a matter for which they were not suited,
فَوُقِصُوا دوُنَهُ.
and therefore their necks were broken before they reached the goal.
Alternative Sources for Sermon 218: Abu al-Faraj, al-'Aghani, XXI, 246; al-Mubarrad, al-Kamil, I, 126; al-Bayhaqi, al-Mahasin, II, 53; Ibn ‘Abd Rabbih, al-’Iqd, II, 279; Ibn al-'Athir, al-Nihayah, I, 192; al-Baladhuri, Ansab, II, 261; al-Mas’udi, Muruj, II, 371.
1. In the battle of Jamal, a group of Banú Jumah was with `Á’ishah, but the chief men of this group fled away from the battle-field. Some of them were: `Abdulláh al-Tawíl ibn Safwán, Yayá ibn Hakím, `Ámir ibn Mas`úd and Ayyúb ibn Habíb. From this group (Banú Jumah) only two persons were killed.
