Those of the Arabs and the poets who claimed that they see the ghouls and hear the humming of the jinn, and what they likened to the jinn and the devils, to their limbs and their deeds

Banī Qays ibn Thaʻlabah al-Bakrī wa-huwa yadhkuru Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd wa-mā aʻṭāhu Allāh

Wa-law kāna shayʼun khālidan wa-muʻammaran ٭ la-kāna Sulaymānu al-barīʼ min al-dahri barāhu ilāhī fa-iṣṭafāhu ʻibādahu ٭ wa-mallakahu mā-bayna Thurayyā ilá Miṣra wa-sakhkhara min jinni al-malāʼiki tisʻah ٭ qiyāman ladayhi yaʻmalūna bi-lā ajri

( qāla ) fa-abat al-ʻArab fī lughatihā illā an al-jinn kull mā ijtanna yaqūlu : mā sammá Allāh al-jinn illā annahum ijtannū fa-lam yuraw wa-mā sammá banī Ādam insan illā annahum ẓaharū fa-lam yajtannū fa-mā ẓahara fa-huwa ins wa-mā ijtanna fa-lam yura fa-huwa jinn

Thumma qāla Ibn Jarīr : wa-ammā khabar Allāh ʻanhu annahu min al-jinn fa-ghayr madfūʻ an yusammá mā ijtanna min al-ashyāʼ ʻan al-abṣār kullahā jinnan ka-mā qad dhakarnā qablu fī shiʻr al-Aʻshá fa-yakūn Iblīs wa-al-malāʼikah minhum li-ijtinānihim ʻan abṣār banī Ādam :

Wa-qāla al-Rāghib al-Iṣbahānī fī Mufradātihi : al-jinn yuqālu ʻalá wajhayn ( iḥdāhumā ) lil-rūḥānīyīn al-mustatirah ʻan al-ḥawāss kullahā bi-izāʼ al-ins fa-ʻalá hādhā tadkhulu fīhi al-malāʼikah wa-al-shayāṭīn fa-kull malāʼikah jinn wa-laysa kull jinn malāʼikah wa-ʻalá hādhā qāla Abū Ṣāliḥ : al-malāʼikah kullahā jinn wa-qīla bal al-jinn baʻḍ al-rūḥānīyīn wa-dhālika anna al-rūḥānīyīn thalāthah ( akhyār ) wa-hum al-malāʼikah ( wa-ashrār ) wa-hum al-shayāṭīn ( wa-awsāṭ ) fīhim akhyār wa-ashrār wa-hum al-jinn wa-yadullu ʻalá dhālika qawluhu taʻālá « qul ūḥiya ilayya » ilá qawlihi ʻazza wa-jalla « wa-annā minnā al-muslimūn wa-minnā al-qāsiṭūn »

Man iddaʻá min al-Aʻrāb wa-al-shuʻarāʼ annahum yarawna al-ghīlān (1) wa-yasmaʻūna ʻazīf al-jānn wa-mā yushabbihūnahu bi-al-jinn wa-al-shayāṭīn wa-bi-aʻḍāʼihim wa-aʻmālihim

Anshada aʻrābī :

Ka-annahu lammā tadāná muqrabuhu (2) ٭ wa-inqaṭaʻat awdhāmuhu (3) wa-karabuhu (4) wa-jāʼat al-khaylu jamīʻan tudhannibuhu (5) ٭ shayṭānu jinnin fī hawāʼin yarqubuhu idh dhanaba fa-intaqaḍa ʻalayhi kawkabuhu

Wa-anshada :

Anna al-ʻUqaylīya lā-talqá lahu shibhan ٭ wa-law ṣabarta la-talqāhu ʻalá al-ʻīsi (1) baynā tarāhu ʻalayhi al-khazzu muttakiʼan ٭ idh mariyyuhu dajja (2) fī ḥashshi (3) al-karābīsi (4) wa-qad takannafahu ʻurrāmuhu (5) zamanan ٭ ashbāhu jinnin ʻukūfin ḥawla Iblīsi idh al-mafālīsu yawman ḥārabū malikan ٭ tará al-ʻUqaylīya minhum fī karādīsi (6)

Wa-qāla Abū al-Khaṭafá (7)

Yarfaʻna bi-al-layli idhā mā asdafā ٭ aʻnāqa jinnānin (8) wa-hāman rajafā wa-ʻanaqan (9) baʻda al-rasīmi (10) khayṭafā (11)

Wa-anshada Ibn al-Aʻrābī

Ghināʼun Kulaybīyun yará al-jinna yabtaghī ٭ ṣadāhu idhā mā āba lil-jinni āyibu

Wa-qāla al-Aʻshá :

Fa-innī wa-mā kallaftumūnī ittibāʻahu ٭ li-yaʻlama rabbī man aʻaqqa wa-aḥwabā (12) la-ka-al-thawri wa-al-jinnīyu yaḍribu ẓahrahu ٭ wa-mā dhanbuhu an ʻāfat al-māʼa mashraban

Wa-qāla al-Riqyānī :

Bayna al-lahá minhu idhā mā hamadā ٭ mithla ʻazīfi al-jinni (13) haddat haddā

Wa-qāla Dhū al-Rummah :

Qad aʻsifu (14) al-nāziḥa al-majhūla maʻsifuhu ٭ fī ẓillin akhḍara yadʻū hāmahu (15) al-būmu lil-jinni bi-al-layli fī arjāʼihā zajalun (16) ٭ ka-mā tanāwaḥa bayna al-rīḥi ʻayshūmu (17) dawwīyatun (1) wa-dujá laylin ka-annahumā ٭ yammun (2) turāṭinu (3) fī ḥāfātihi al-Rūmu

Wa-qāla :

Wa-kam ʻarrastu baʻda-al-surá min muʻarrasin (4) ٭ bihā min ṣadāʼi al-jinni aṣwātu sāmiri

Wa-qāla :

Kam jabtu dūnaka min bahmāʼa muẓlimatin ٭ tīhin (5) idhā mā-maghná jinnihi samarā

Wa-qāla :

Wa-ramlin li-ʻazfi al-jinni fī ʻuqdātihi ٭ harīrun ka-tiḍrābi al-mughannīna bi-al-ṭabli

Wa-qāla :

Wa-tīhin khabaṭnā ghawlahā wa-artamá binā (6) ٭ abū al-buʻdi min arjāʼihi al-mutaṭāwiḥi (7) falātin aṣwatu al-jinni fī munkarātihā ٭ harīrun wa-lil-abwāmi fīhā nawāʼiḥu wa-ṭūlu ightimāʼī fī al-dujá kullamā raʻat ٭ min al-layli aṣdāʼu al-mathānī al-ṣawāʼiḥu

Wa-yaqūlūna li-man bihi laqwah (8) aw-shatarin (9) idhā shabba yā-laṭīma al-Shayṭān wa-yaqūlūna lil-rajul al-mufriṭ al-ṭūl yā-ẓilla al-naʻāmah wa-lil-mutakabbir al-ḍakhm yā-ẓilla al-Shayṭān

Wa-kāna ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz awwal man nahá al-nās ʻan ḥaml al-ṣibyān ʻalá ẓuhūr al-khayl yawm al-ḥalbah wa-qāla : taḥmilūna al-ṣibyān ʻalá al-jinnān wa-anshada fī tashbīh al-ins bi-al-jinn li-Abī al-Juwayriyah al-ʻAbdī :

Insun idhā aminū jinnun idhā faziʻū (10) ٭ marzūʼūna bahālīlu idhā ḥashadū

Wa-anshadū :

Wa-qāti wa-Allāhi azḥalnā ٭ qalāʼiṣan taḥsabuhunna jinnā

Wa-qāla Ibn al-Zawāʼid :

Buḥūru khafḍin li-man alamma bihim ٭ jinnun bi-armāḥihim idhā khaṭarū

Wa-anshadū :

Innī imruʼun tābiʻatī shayṭānīyah ٭ ākhaytuhu ʻumrī wa-qad ākhānīyah yashrabu fī qaʻbī (1) wa-qad saqānīyah ٭ fa-al-ḥamdu li-Allāhi al-ladhī aʻṭānīyah

Wa-qāla ʻUbayd ibn Aws al-Ṭāʼī :

Hal jāʼa Awsan laylatī wa-naʻīmuhā ٭ wa-maqāmu Awsin fī al-khibāʼi al-musharraji (2) mā-ziltu aṭwī al-jinna asmaʻu ḥissahum ٭ ḥattá dufiʻtu ilá rāqi al-murūji

Wa-anshada ākhar :

Dhahabtum wa-ʻudtum bi-al-amīri wa-qultum ٭ taraknā aḥādītha wa-laḥman muwaḍḍaʻā fa-mā zādanī illā sanāʼan wa-rifʻatan ٭ wa-lā zādakum fī al-qawmi illā takhashshuʻā fa-mā nafarat jinnī wa-lā fulla mibradī (3) ٭ wa-mā aṣbaḥat ṭayrī min al-khawfi wuqqaʻā (4)

Wa-ashʻāruhum fī hādhā al-maʻná tafūtu al-ḥaṣr

Iḍāfatʹhum mabānī Tadmur wa-amthālahā ilá al-jinn

Qāla al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī :

Illā Sulaymāna idh qāla al-ālahu lahu ٭ qum fī al-barīyati fa-uḥdudʹhā (5) ʻan al-fandi (6) wa-khayyisi al-jinna (7) innī qad adhintu lahum ٭ yabnūna Tadmura bi-al-ṣuffāḥi (8) wa-al-ʻamadi

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : wa-ahl Tadmur yazʻumūna anna dhālika al-bināʼ qabla zaman Sulaymān ʻalayhi al-salām bi-akthar mimmā baynanā al-yawm wa-bayna Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd ʻalayhimā al-salām « qālū » wa-lākinnakum idhā raʼaytum bunyānan ʻajīban wa-jahiltum mawḍiʻ al-ḥīlah fīhi aḍaftumūhu ilá al-jinn wa-lam tuʻānūhu bi-fikr . Wa-qāla al-ʻUrjī :

Saddat masāmiʻahā li-qarʻi marāḥilin ٭ min nasji jinnin mithluhu lā yunsaju

Wa-qāla al-Aṣmaʻī al-suyūf al-maʼthūrah hiya al-latī yuqālu innahā min ʻamal al-jinn li-Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd ʻalayhimā al-salām fa-ammā al-qawārīr wa-al-ḥammāmāt fa-dhālika mā-lā shakka fīhi . Wa-qāla al-Baʻīth :

Banī Ziyādin li-dhikri Allāhi maṣnaʻatan ٭ min al-ḥijārati lam tuʻmal min al-ṭīni ka-annahā ghayra anna al-insa tarfaʻuhā ٭ mimmā banat li-Sulaymāna al-shayāṭīnu

Wa-qāla al-Aʻshá fī bināʼ al-shayāṭīn li-Sulaymān :

Ará ʻĀdiyā lam yamnaʻ al-mawta rabbahu ٭ wa-warada bi-Taymāʼa al-Yahūdīyi Ablaqu (1) banāhu Sulaymānu ibnu Dāwūda ḥiqbatan (2) ٭ lahu jandalun (3) ṣummun wa-ṭayyun mūthaqu (4)

Tafriqatʹhum bayna mawāḍiʻ al-jinn

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : ka-mā yaqūlūna qunfudh Barqah (5) wa-ḍabb Saḥā (6) wa-arnab al-Khullah (7) wa-dhiʼb Khamar (8) fa-yufarriqūna baynahā wa-bayna mā yunsab li-dhālika ammā fī al-siman wa-ammā fī al-khubth wa-ammā fī al-qūwah ka-dhālika ayḍan yufarriqūna bayna mawāḍiʻ al-jinn fa-idhā nasabū al-shakl minhā ilá mawḍiʻ maʻrūf fa-qad khaṣṣūhu min al-khubth wa-al-qūwah wa-al-ʻurāmah (9) bi-mā laysa li-jumlatihim wa-jumhūrihim qāla Labīd :

Ghulbun (10) tashadhdharu (11) bi-al-duḥūli ka-annahā ٭ jinnu al-Badīyi (12) rawāsiyan aqdāmuhā

Wa-qāla al-Nābighah :

Sumkīna (13) min ṣadaʼi al-ḥadīdi ka-annahum ٭ taḥta al-nusūri (14) jinnatu al-Baqqāri (15)

Wa-qāla Zuhayr :

ʻAlayhinna fityānun ka-jinnati ʻAbqara (16) ٭ jadīrūna yawman an yanīfū fa-yastaʻlū

Wa-qāla Ḥātim :

ʻAlayhinna fityānun ka-jinnati ʻAbqara ٭ yahuzzūna bi-al-aydī al-washīja al-muqawwamā (17)

Tanzīluhum al-jinn fī marātib

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : thumma yunazzilūna al-jinn fī marātib fa-idhā dhakarū al-jinnī sāliman qālū jinnī . Fa-idhā arādū annahu mimman sakana maʻa al-nās qālū ʻāmir wa-al-jamīʻ ʻummār . Wa-in kāna mimman yaʻriḍu lil-ṣibyān fa-hum arwāḥ fa-in khabutha aḥaduhum wa-taʻarrama fa-huwa shayṭān . Fa-in zāda ʻalá dhālika fī al-qūwah fa-huwa ʻifrīt wa-al-jamʻ ʻafārīt . Wa-hum fī al-jumlah jinn wa-khawāfī qāla al-shāʻir

Wa-lā yaḥissu siwá al-ḥāfī bihā atharu

Fa-idhā ẓahara al-jinnī wa-naṭaqa wa-anqá wa-ṣāra khayran kullahu fa-huwa malak fī qawl man taʼawwala qawlahu « kāna min al-jinni fa-fasaqa ʻan amri rabbihi » ʻalá an al-jinn fī hādhā al-mawḍiʻ al-malāʼikah wa-qāla ākharūn : kāna minhum ʻalá al-iḍāfah ilá al-dār wa-al-diyānah lā ʻalá annahu kāna min jinsihim wa-innamā dhālika ʻalá qawlihim : Sulaymān ibn Yazīd al-ʻAdawī wa-Sulaymān ibn Ṭawḥān al-Naymī wa-Abū ʻAlī al-ʻAbdarī wa-ʻAmr ibn Qāʼid al-Aswārī : aḍāfūhum ilá al-maḥāll wa-tarakū ansābahum fī al-ḥaqīqah :

Wa-qāla ākharūn : kull mustajinn fa-huwa jinnī wa-jānn wa-janīn wa-ka-dhālika al-walad fī al-baṭn qīla lahu janīn li-kawnihi fī al-baṭn wa-istijnānihi wa-qīla li-mayt al-ladhī fī al-qabr janīn wa-qāla ʻAmr ibn Kulthūm

Wa-lā shamṭāʼa lam tadaʻi al-manāyā (1) ٭ lahā min tisʻatin illā janīnā

Yukhbiru annahā qad dafanatʹhum kullahum « qālū » wa-ka-dhālika al-malāʼikah min al-ḥafaẓah wa-al-ḥamalah wa-al-Karūbīyīn (2) fa-lā budda min ṭabaqāt , wa-rubbamā furriqa baynahum bi-al-aʻmāl wa-ushtuqqa lahum al-asmāʼ min al-sabab ka-mā qālū li-wāḥid min al-anbiyāʼ Khalīl Allāh wa-qālū li-ākhar Kalīm Allāh wa-qālū li-ākhar Rūḥ Allāh . Wa-al-ʻArab tunazzilu al-shujʻān fī al-marātib wa-al-ism al-ʻāmm shujāʻ thumma buhmah (3) a-laysa hādhā qawl Abī ʻUbaydah fa-ammā qawluhum : shayṭān al-ḥamāṭah (4) fa-innahum yaʻnūna al-ḥayyah wa-anshada al-Aṣmaʻī

Talāʻabu mathná Ḥaḍramīyin ka-annahu ٭ taʻammuju shayṭānin bi-dhawī kharwaʻin (5) qafri

Wa-qad yusammūna al-kibr wa-al-ṭughyān wa-al-khunzuwānīyah (6) wa-al-ghaḍab al-shadīd shayṭānan ʻalá al-tashbīh .

Qāla ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb raḍiya Allāh taʻālá ʻanhu : wa-Allāh la-anziʻanna naʻratahu (7) wa-la-aḍribannahu ḥattá anziʻa shayṭānahu min nakhratihi (1) wa-qāla Ḥassān ibn Thābit fī maʻná qawlihi wa-Allāh la-aḍribannahu ḥattá anziʻa min raʼsihi shayṭānahu fa-qāla

Wa-dāwīyatin (2) sabsabin samlaqi ٭ min al-bīdi taʻrifu junbānahā qaṭaʻtu bi-ʻīrānatin (3) ka-al-fanīqi ٭ yamraḥu fī al-āli shayṭānuhā

Wa-abyanu minhu qawl Manẓūr ibn Rawāḥah

Atānī wa-ahlī bi-al-rimāḥi wa-ghamratin ٭ masabbun (4) ʻarīfu al-luʼmi ḥattá Banī Badri fa-lammā atānī mā taqūlu taqallaṣat ٭ shayāṭīnu raʼsī wa-antashayna min al-khamri

Wa-al-Aʻrāb tajʻal al-khawāfī wa-al-mustajinnāt min qabl an turattab al-marātib jinnayn taqūl ḥinn wa-jinn bi-al-jīm wa-al-ḥāʼ wa-anshadū

Abittu ahwī fī shayāṭīna tarinnu ٭ mukhtalifin bukhāruhā ḥinnun wa-jinnu

Wa-yajʻalūna al-ḥinn fawq al-jinn wa-qāla Aʻshá Sulaym

Fa-mā anā min jinnin idhā kuntu khāfiyā ٭ wa-lastu min al-nisnāsi fī ʻunṣuri al-bashari

Dhahaba ilá qawl man qāla al-bashar nās wa-nisnās wa-al-khawāfī ḥinn wa-jinn wa-yaqūl anā min akram al-ḥayyayn ḥaythu mā-kānat

Wa-ḍaʻafat al-nussāk wa-aghbiyāʼ al-ʻubbād yazʻumūna an lahum khāṣṣah shayṭānan qad wukkila bihim yuqāl lahu al-Mudhhib yusriju lahum al-nīrān wa-yuḍīʼu lahum al-ẓulmah li-yaftinahum wa-ayrīhim al-ʻajab idhā ẓannū an dhālika min qibal Allāh taʻālá

(qāla) wa-ammā al-khābil wa-al-khabl fa-innamā dhālika ism lil-jinn al-ladhīna yukhabbilūna wa-yataʻarraḍūna mimman ayisa ʻindahu illā al-ʻazīf wa-al-nawḥ wa-faṣṣala ayḍan Labīd baynahum fa-qāla

A-ʻādhil law kāna al-bidādu (5) la-qūtilū ٭ wa-lākin atānā kullu jinnin wa-khābili

Zaʻmuhum an al-ghūl min unthá al-jinn wa-ka-dhālika al-siʻlāh

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : «qālū» idhā taʻarraḍat al-jinnīyah wa-talawwanat wa-ʻabithat fa-hiya shayṭānah thumma ghūl . Wa-rubbamā jaʻalū al-ghūl isman li-kull shayʼ min al-jinn yaʻriḍ lil-suffār wa-yatalawwan fī ḍurūb al-ṣuwar wa-al-thiyāb dhakaran kāna aw unthá illā an al-akthar ʻalá annahu unthá wa-qad qāla Abū al-Miḍrāb ʻUbayd ibn Ayyūb al-ʻAnbarī

Wa-ḥālafat al-wuḥūshu wa-ḥālafatnī ٭ bi-qurbi ʻuhūdihinna wa-bi-al-biʻādi wa-amsá al-dhiʼbu yarṣudunī muḥshiyan(1) ٭ li-khiffati ḍarbatī wa-li-ḍaʻfi ādī wa-ghūlan qafratin dhakarun wa-unthá ٭ ka-anna ʻalayhimā qiṭaʻu al-bijādi

Fa-jaʻala fī al-ghīlān al-dhakar wa-al-unthá wa-qad qāla al-shāʻir fī talawwunihā

Wa-mā tazālu ʻalá ḥālin takūnu bihā ٭ ka-mā talawwanu fī athwābihā al-ghūlu

Fa-al-ghūl mā kāna ka-dhālika . ( wa-al-siʻlāh ) ism li-wāḥidah min nisāʼ al-jinn tataghawwal li-taftin al-suffār « qālū » wa-innamā hādhā minhā ʻalá al-ʻabath aw laʻallahā an tafziʻa insānan fa-yataghayyar ʻaqluhu min ajlihi ʻinda dhālika li-annahum lam yusallaṭū ʻalá al-ṣaḥīḥ al-ʻaql wa-law kāna dhālika la-badaʼū bi-ʻAlīyin ibn Abī Ṭālib wa-Ḥamzah ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib wa-Abī Bakr wa-ʻUmar fī zamānihimā wa-bi-Ghaylān wa-al-Ḥasan fī dahrihimā wa-bi-Wāṣil wa-ʻAmr fī ayyāmihimā wa-qad farraqa bayna al-ghūl wa-al-siʻlāh ʻUbayd ibn Ayyūb ḥaythu yaqūl

Wa-sākhiratin minnī wa-law anna ʻaynahā ٭ raʼat mā ulāqīhi min al-hawli junnat azallun wa-siʻlātun wa-ghūlun bi-qafratin ٭ idh al-laylu wārá al-jinna fīhi arannat(2)

Wa-hum idhā raʼaw al-fatāh ḥadīdah al-ṭarf wa-al-dhihn sarīʻah al-ḥarakah mamshūqah maḥḍah qālū siʻlāh wa-qāla al-Aʻshá :

wa-rijālun qatlá bi-janbay Arīk(3) ٭ wa-nisāʼun ka-annahunna al-saʻālá

Wa-yaqūlūna tazawwaja ʻAmr ibn Yarbūʻ al-siʻlāh wa-qāla al-rājiz :

Yā-qātala Allāh banī al-siʻlāh

Wa-fī talawwun al-siʻlāh yaqūl ʻAbbās ibn Mirdās al-Sulamī :

Aṣābat al-qawma ghūlun julla qawmihim ٭ wasṭa al-buyūti wa-lawnu al-ghūli alwānu

Wa-qāla ʻUbayd ibn Ayyūb wa-kāna jawwālan fī majhūl al-arḍ lammā ishtadda khawfuhu wa-ṭāla taraddaduhu wa-abʻada fī al-harab

Laqad khiftu ḥattá law tamurru ḥamāmatun ٭ la-qultu ʻaduʼun aw ṭalīʻatu maʻshari fa-in qīla amnun qultu hādhī khadīʻatun ٭ wa-in qīla khawfun qultu ḥaqqan fa-shammiri wa-khiftu khalīlī dhā al-ṣafāʼi wa-rābanī ٭ wa-qīla fulānun aw fulānatun fa-aḥdhari fa-li-Allāhi darru al-ghūli ayyu rafīqatin ٭ li-ṣāḥibi qafrin khāʼifin mutanaffiri arannat bi-laḥnin baʻda laḥnin wa-awqadat ٭ ḥawālayya nīrānan talūḥu wa-tazharu wa-aṣbaḥtu ka-al-waḥshīyi yatbaʻu mā-khalā ٭ wa-yaṭlubu maʼnūsa al-bilādi al-mubaʻtharu

Wa-mimmā dhakara al-ghīlān qawluhu :

Taqūlu wa-qad alammat bi-al-insi lammatun ٭ mukhaḍḍabatu al-aṭrāfi khursu al-khalākhili a-hādhā khalīlu al-ghūli wa-al-dhiʼbi wa-al-ladhī ٭ yahīmu bi-rabbāti al-ḥijāli al-kawāhili raʼat khalaqa al-adrāsi(1) ashʻatha shāḥiban ٭ ʻalá al-jadbi bassāman karīma al-shamāʼili taʻawwada min ābāʼihi fatakātihim ٭ wa-iṭʻāmihim fī kulli ghabrāʼa(2) shāmili

Wa-mimmā qāla fī hādhā al-maʻná :

ʻAlāma tará Laylá tuʻadhdhibu bi-al-muná ٭ akhā qafarātin kāna bi-al-dhiʼbi yaʼnasu wa-ṣāra khalīla al-ghūli baʻda ʻadāwatin ٭ ṣafīyan wa-rabbatʹhu al-qifāru al-basābisu(3)

Wa-qāla fī hādhā al-maʻná :

Fa-lawlā rijālun yā-Manīʻu raʼaytuhum ٭ lahum khuluqun ʻinda al-jiwāri ḥamīdu anālakum minnī nakālun wa-ghāratun ٭ lahā dhanabun lam tudrikūhu baʻīdu aqalla banū al-iḥsāni ḥattá aghartum ٭ ʻalá man yuthīru al-jinna wa-hiya hujūdu

Wa-tazʻum al-Aʻrāb an al-ghūl idhā ḍuribat ḍarbah mātat illā an yuʻīd ʻalayhi al-ḍārib qabl an taqḍī ḍarbah ukhrá fa-innahu an faʻala dhālika lam tamut wa-qad qāla shāʻiruhum :

Fa-thannaytu wa-al-miqdāru yaḥrusu ahlahu ٭ fa-layta yamīnī qabla dhālika shullat

Wa-anshadū li-Abī al-Bilād al-Ṭuhawī :

La-hāna ʻalá Juhaynata mā alāqī ٭ min al-rawʻāti yawma Raḥā Biṭān(4) laqītu al-ghūla tasrī fī ẓalāmin ٭ bi-sahmin ka-al-ʻiyābati ṣaḥṣaḥān(5) fa-qultu lahā kilānā niḍwu(6) arḍin ٭ akhū safarin fa-ṣuddī ʻan makānī fa-ṣaddat wa-antaḥaytu lahā bi-ʻaḍbin ٭ ḥusāmin ghayri muʼtashabin(7) yamānī fa-qadda sarātahā(1) wa-al-barda minhā ٭ nakharat lil-yadayni wa-lil-jirāni fa-qālat zid fa-qultu ruwayda innī ٭ ʻalá amthālihā thabtu al-janāni shadadtu ʻiqālahā wa-ḥaṭaṭtu ʻanhā ٭ li-anẓura ghudwatan mādhā dahānī idhā ʻaynāni fī wajhin qabīḥin ٭ ka-wajhi al-hirri mashqūqi al-lisāni wa-rijlā mukhaddajin(2) wa-lisānu kalbin ٭ wa-jildun min qirābin aw shinān

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : wa-Abū al-Bilād al-Ṭuhawī hādhā kāna min shayāṭīn al-Aʻrāb wa-huwa ka-mā tará yakdhibu wa-huwa yaʻlam wa-yuṭīl al-kadhib wa-yujīzuhu wa-qad qāla ka-mā tará :

Fa-qālat zid fa-qultu rūbad innī ٭ ʻalá amthālihā thabtu al-janāni

Li-annahum hākadhā yaqūlūna yazʻumūna an al-ghūl tastazīd baʻda al-ḍarbah al-ūlá li-annahā tamūt min ḍarbah wa-taʻīsh min alf ḍarbah

Zaʻmuhum annahum yaẓharūna lahum wa-yukallimūnahum wa-yunākiḥūnahum

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : wa-min qawl al-Aʻrāb annahum yaẓharūna lahum wa-yukallimūnahum wa-yunākiḥūnahum wa-li-dhālika qāla Shamir ibn al-Ḥārith al-Ḍabbī :

Wa-nārin qad ḥaḍaʼtu(3) baʻīda(4) wahnin ٭ bi-dārin lā urīdu bihā maqāmā siwá tajlīli rāḥatin wa-ʻaynin ٭ ukāliʼuhā makhāfata an tanāmā atū nārī fa-qultu manūna antum ٭ fa-qālū al-jinnu qultu ʻimū ẓalāmā fa-qultu ilá al-ṭaʻāmi fa-qāla minhum ٭ zaʻīmun naḥsudu al-insa al-ṭaʻāmā

Wa-dhakara Abū Zabd ʻanhum an rajulan minhum tazawwaja al-siʻlāh wa-annahā kānat ʻindahu zamānan wa-waladat minhu ḥattá raʼat dhāta laylah barqan ʻalá bilād al-saʻālá fa-ṭārat ilayhinna fa-qāla

Raʼá barqā-fa-awḍaʻa(5) fawqa bakrin ٭ falāyan mā asāla wa-mā aʻāmā

Fa-min hādhā al-nitāj al-mushtarak wa-hādhā al-khalq al-murakkab « ʻindahum » banū al-siʻlāh min banī ʻAmr ibn Yarbūʻ wa-Bilqīs malikah-Sabaʼ

Wa-taʼawwalū qawl al-shāʻir : lā-humma inna Jurhuman ʻibādakā ٭ al-nāsu ṭarafun (1) wa-hum tilādakā

Fa-zaʻamū an abā-Jurhum min al-malāʼikah al-ladhīna kānū idhā ʻaṣaw fī al-samāʼ unzilū ilá al-arḍ ka-mā qīla fī Hārūt wa-Mārūt fa-jaʻalū Suhaylan ʻashshāran musikha najman wa-jaʻalū al-Zuhrah imraʼah baghīyan musikhat najman wa-kāna ismuhā Anāhīd . Wa-taqūl al-Hind fī al-kawkab al-ladhī yusammá ʻUṭārid shabīhan bi-hādhā wa-yaqūl al-nās fulān makhdūm yadhhabūna ilá annahu idhā ʻazama ʻalá al-shayāṭīn wa-al-arwāḥ wa-al-ʻummār ajābūhu wa-aṭāʻūhu . Fa-minhum ʻAbd Allāh ibn Hilāl al-Ḥimyarī . Al-ladhī kāna yuqāl lahu ṣadīq Iblīs . Wa-minhum Kadyās al-Hindī wa-Ṣāliḥ al-Mūsawī . Wa-qad kāna ʻUbayd yaqūl an al-ʻĀmirī ḥarīṣ ʻalá ijābat al-ʻazīmah wa-lākin al-badan idhā lam yaṣluḥ an yakūn haykalan lam yastaṭiʻ dukhūlahu wa-al-ḥīlah fī dhālika an yanbakhir bi-al-lubān al-dhakar wa-yurāʻī sayr al-Mushtarī wa-yaghtasil bi-al-māʼ al-qarāḥ wa-yadaʻ al-jimāʻ wa-akl al-zuhūmāt wa-yatawaḥḥash fī al-fayāfī wa-yukthir dukhūl al-kharābāt ḥattá yariqq wa-yalṭuf wa-yaṣīr fīhi mushābahah min al-jinn fa-in ʻazama ʻinda dhālika fa-lam yujib fa-lā yaʻūdanna li-mithlihā fa-innahu laysa mimman yakūn badanuhu haykalan lahā wa-matá ʻāda khabaṭahu fa-rubbamā junna wa-rubbamā māta qāla fa-law kuntu mimman yaṣluḥ an yakūn lahum haykalan la-kuntu fawq ʻAbd-Allāh ibn Hilāl

« qālat al-Aʻrāb » wa-rubbamā nazalnā bi-majmaʻ kathīr wa-raʼaynā khiyāman wa-qibāban wa-nāsan thumma faqadnāhum min sāʻatinā

Wa-al-ʻawāmm tarwī an Ibn Masʻūd raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu raʼá rajulan min al-Zuṭṭ fa-qāla : hāʼulāʼ ashbah man raʼaytu min al-jinn laylah al-jinn . Wa-qad ruwiya ʻanhu khilāf dhālika

Wa-qāla Abū al-Najm ٭ bi-ḥaythu tastinnu maʻa al-jinni al-ghūlu ٭ fa-akhraja al-jinn min al-ghūl al-ladhī bātat bihi al-jinn . Wa-hādhā min ʻādatihim an yukhrijū al-shayʼ min al-jumlah baʻda an dakhala dhālika al-shayʼ fī al-jumlah fa-yaẓhar li-amr khāṣṣ

Wa-fī baʻḍ al-riwāyah annahum kānū yasmaʻūna fī al-Jāhilīyah min ajwāf al-awthān hamhamah wa-anna Khālid ibn al-Walīd ḥīna hadama al-ʻUzzá ramatʹhu bi-al-shirar ḥattá iḥtaraqa ʻāmmah fakhidhahu ḥattá ʻawwadhahu al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam « qāla al-imām al-Jāḥiẓ raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá » wa-hādhihi fitnah lam yakun Allāh taʻālá li-yamtaḥin bihā al-Aʻrāb min al-ʻawāmm « qāla » wa-mā ashukk annahu kāna lil-sadanah ḥiyal wa-alṭāf li-makān al-takassub . Wa-law samiʻta aw raʼayta baʻḍ mā-qad aʻadda al-Hind min hādhihi al-makhārīq fī buyūt ʻibādātihim la-ʻalimta an Allāh taʻālá qad manna ʻalá jahalah al-nās bi-al-mutakallimīn al-ladhīna qad nashaʼū fīhim : yaʻnī ʻulamāʼ al-kalām wa-falāsifah al-dīn ʻalayhim riḍwān Allāh

Mazāʻimuhum fī al-hātif wa-al-nāqil wa-al-riʼīy (1)

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : wa-al-Aʻrāb wa-ashbāh al-Aʻrāb lā yataḥāshawna min al-īmān bi-al-hātif bal yataʻajjabūna mimman radda dhālika fa-min dhālika ḥadīth al-Aʻshá ibn Mās ibn Zurārah al-Asadī annahu samiʻa hātifan yaqūl :

Laqad halaka al-Fayyāḍu ghaythu Banī Fihri ٭ wa-dhū al-bāʻi wa-al-majdi al-rafīʻi wa-dhū al-qadri

Qāla fa-qultu mujīban lahu :

Alā ayyuhā al-nāʻī akhā al-jūdi wa-al-nadá ٭ man al-marʼu tanʻāhu lanā min Banī Fihri

Fa-qāla :

Naʻaytu ibna Judʻāna bna ʻAmrin akhā al-nadá ٭ wa-dhā al-ḥasabi al-qudmūsi wa-al-manṣibi al-qaṣri

Wa-hādhā al-bāb kathīr

« qālū » wa-li-naql al-jinn al-akhbār ʻalima al-nās wafāt al-mulūk wa-al-umūr al-muhimmah ka-mā tasāmaʻū bi-mawt al-Manṣūr fī al-yawm al-ladhī tuwuffiya fīhi bi-qurb Makkah . Wa-hādhā al-bāb ayḍan kathīr

« wa-kānū » yaqūlūna idhā alifa al-jinnī insānan wa-taʻaṭṭafa ʻalayhi wa-akhbarahu bi-baʻḍ al-akhbār wajada ḥissahu wa-raʼá khayālahu , wa-idhā kāna ʻindahum ka-dhālika qālū maʻa fulān riʼīy min al-jinn . Wa-man yaqūlūna dhālika fīhi ʻAmr ibn Liḥāʼ ibn Qamʻah — wa-al-Maʼmūn al-Ḥārithī — wa-ʻUthaybah ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Shihāb fī nās maʻrūfīn min dhawī al-aqdār min bayn fārisin raʼīsin wa-sayyid muṭāʻ fa-ammā al-kuhhān(2) fa-mithl Ḥārithah ibn Juhaynah wa-kāhinah Bāhilah wa-ʻanz Salamah wa-mithl Shiqq wa-Saṭīḥ wa-ashbāhuhum

Wa-ammā al-ʻarrāf wa-huwa dūn al-kāhin fa-mithl al-Ablaq al-Usaydī wa-al-Ajlaḥ al-Zuhrī wa-ʻUrwah ibn Zayd al-Asadī wa-ʻarrāf al-Yamāmah Rabāḥ ibn Kaḥlah wa-huwa ṣāḥib al-Mustanīr al-Balthaʻī wa-qad qāla al-shāʻir :

Fa-qultu li-ʻarrāfi al-Yamāmati dāwinī ٭ fa-innaka in abraʼtanī la-ṭabību

Wa-qāla Jabhāʼ al-Ashjaʻī :

Aqāma hawá Ṣafīyata fī fuʼādī ٭ wa-qad sayyartu kulla hawá ḥabībi laka al-khayrātu kayfa muniḥta wuddī ٭ wa-mā anā min hawāki bi-dhī naṣībi aqūlu wa-ʻUrwatu al-Asadīyu yarqī ٭ atāka bi-ruqyati al-maliqi al-kadhūbi la-ʻamruka mā al-tathāʼubu yā ibna Zaydin ٭ bi-shāfin min ruqāka wa-lā mujībi la-sayru al-nāʻijāti aẓunnu ashfá ٭ li-mā bī min ṭabībi Banī al-Dhuhūbi

Wa-laysa al-bāb al-ladhī yaddaʻīhi hāʼulāʼi min jins al-ʻiyāfah (1) wa-al-zajr wa-al-khuṭūṭ wa-al-naẓar fī asrār al-kaff wa-fī mawāḍiʻ qarḍ al-fār wa-fī al-khīlān fī al-jasad wa-fī al-naẓar fī al-aktāf wa-al-qaḍāʼ bi-al-nujūm wa-al-ʻilāj bi-al-fikr

Wa-qad kāna Musaylimah yaddaʻī an maʻahu riʼīyan fī awwal zamānihi , wa-li-dhālika qāla al-shāʻir ḥīna waṣafa makhārīqahu wa-khudaʻahu :

Bi-bayḍati qārūrin wa-rāyati shādinin ٭ wa-khullati jinnīyin wa-tawṣīli ṭāʼiri

A-lā tarāhu dhakara khullata al-jinnīy

Mā-ruwiya min hutūfihim bi-al-baʻthah al-Muḥammadīyah

Ḥaká al-imām al-Māwardī fī Aʻlām al-nubūwah mā-rawāhu ahl al-sīr min hutūf al-jinn bi-Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam qabl mabʻathihi wa-annahu kāna min āyāt nubūwatihi . Al-ṣādirah ʻan al-ilhām fa-min dhālika mā-rawāhu ʻUthmān ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ʻan Muḥammad ibn Kaʻb qāla baynamā ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb riḍwān Allāh ʻalayhi dhāta yawm jālisan idh marra bihi rajul fa-qīla lahu : a-taʻrif hādhā al-mārr yā amīr al-muʼminīn qāla : wa-man huwa qālū hādhā Sawād ibn Qārib qāla anta Sawād ibn Qārib qāla naʻam yā amīr al-muʼminīn fa-qāla anta al-ladhī atāka riʼīyuka bi-ẓuhūr al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam qāla : naʻam yā amīr al-muʼminīn baynā anā dhāta laylah bayna al-nāʼim wa-al-yaqẓān idh atānī riʼīy min al-jinn fa-ḍarabanī bi-rijlihi wa-qāla : qum yā-Sawād ibn Qārib fa-asmaʻ maqālī wa-aʻqil in kunta taʻqil annahu qad baʻatha Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam min Luʼayy ibn Ghālib yadʻū ilá Allāh taʻālá wa-ilá ʻibādatihi wa-anshaʼa yaqūl :

ʻAjibtu lil-jinni wa-taṭlābihā ٭ wa-shaddihā al-ʻīsa bi-aqtābihā tahwī ilá Makkata tabghī al-hudá ٭ mā-ṣādiqu al-jinni ka-kadhdhābihā fa-arḥal ilá al-ṣafwati min Hāshimi ٭ fa-laysa qadamāhā ka-adhnābihā

Fa-qultu lahu : daʻnī fa-innī amsaytu nāʻisan wa-lam arfaʻ bi-mā qāla raʼsan fa-lammā kānat al-laylah al-thāniyah atānī fa-ḍarabanī bi-rijlihi wa-qāla : qum yā-Sawād ibn Qārib fa-asmaʻ maqālatī wa-aʻqil in kunta taʻqil annahu qad baʻatha Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam min Luʼayy ibn Ghālib yadʻū ilá Allāh wa-ilá ʻibādatihi wa-anshaʼa yaqūl :

ʻAjibtu lil-jinni wa-tajbārihā ٭ wa-shaddihā al-ʻīsa bi-akwārihā tahwī ilá Makkata tabghī al-hudá ٭ mā-muʼminū al-jinni ka-kuffārihā fa-arḥal ilá al-ṣafwati min Hāshimi ٭ bayna rawābīhā wa-aḥjārihā

Fa-qultu : daʻnī fa-qad amsaytu nāʻisan wa-lam arfaʻ bi-mā qāla raʼsan fa-lammā kānat al-laylah al-thālithah atānī fa-ḍarabanī bi-rijlihi wa-qāla : qum yā-Sawād ibn Qārib fa-asmaʻ maqālatī wa-aʻqil in kunta taʻqil qad baʻatha rasūl min Luʼayy ibn Ghālib yadʻū ilá Allāh taʻālá wa-ilá ʻibādatihi wa-anshaʼa yaqūl :

ʻAjibtu lil-jinni wa-tajsāsihā ٭ wa-shaddihā al-ʻīsa bi-aḥlāsihā tahwī ilá Makkata tabghī al-hudá ٭ mā-khayru al-jinni ka-anjāsihā fa-arḥal ilá al-ṣafwati min Hāshimi ٭ wa-asmu bi-ʻaynayka ilá raʼsihā

Qāla : fa-aṣbaḥtu wa-qad imtaḥana Allāh qalbī lil-Islām fa-raḥaltu nāqatī wa-ataytu al-Madīnah fa-idhā Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam wa-aṣḥābuhu fa-qultu : asmaʻ maqālī yā-Rasūl Allāh qāla : hāti fa-anshaʼtu

Atānī najīyun bayna hadwin wa-raqdatin ٭ wa-lam aku fīmā qad nujītu bi-kādhibi thalātha layālin qawluhu kulla laylatin ٭ atāka rasūlun min Luʼayy ibn Ghālibi fa-shammartu min dhayli al-izāri wa-wassaṭat ٭ bī al-dhuʻlubu al-wajnāʼu bayna al-sabāsibi fa-ashhadu an Allāha lā-shayʼa ghayruhu ٭ wa-annaka maʼmūnun ʻalá kulli ghāʼibi wa-annaka adná al-mursalīna wasīlatan ٭ ilá Allāhi yā-ibna al-akramīna al-aṭāyibi fa-murnā bi-mā yaʼtīka yā-khayra man mashá ٭ wa-in kāna fīmā jāʼa shaybu al-dhawāʼibi wa-kun lī shafīʻan yawma lā-dhū shafāʻatin ٭ ⟨...⟩wāka bi-mughnin ʻan Sawādi bni Qāribi

Qāla fa-fariḥa Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam wa-aṣḥābuhu bi-maqālatī faraḥan shadīdan wa-wathaba ilayhi ʻUmar fa-iltazamahu wa-qāla : qad kuntu uḥibb an asmaʻ minka hādhā al-ḥadīth fa-hal yaʼtīka riʼīyuka al-yawm

Fa-qāla : mudh qaraʼtu al-Qurʼān fa-lā wa-niʻma al-ʻiwaḍ kitāb Allāh min al-jinn

Wa-rawá Ibrāhīm ibn Salāmah bi-sanadihi ilá rajul min Khathʻam qāla : kānat Khathʻam lā-tuḥill ḥalālan wa-lā tuḥarrim ḥarāman wa-kānat taʻbud aṣnāman ( qāla ) fa-baynā naḥnu ʻinda ṣanam lanā dhāta laylah nataqāḍá ilayhi fī amr qad shajara baynanā idh ṣāḥa ṣāʼiḥ min jawfihi

Yā-ayyuhā al-rakbu dhawū al-aḥkāmi ٭ mā-antum wa-ṭāʼishi al-aḥlāmi wa-musnidū al-ḥukmi ilá al-aṣnāmi hādhā nabīyun sayyidu al-anāmi ٭ yaṣdaʻu bi-al-ḥaqqi wa-bi-al-Islāmi aʻdalu dhī ḥukmin min al-aḥkāmi wa-yatbaʻu al-nūru ʻalá al-aẓlāmi ٭ sa-yuʻlanu fī al-baladi al-ḥarāmi qad ṭahhara al-nāsa min al-āthāmi

Qāla al-Khathʻamī : fa-faziʻnā minhu wa-kharajtu ilá Makkah wa-aslamtu maʻa al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam

Wa-rawá Ibrāhīm ibn Salāmah bi-sanadihi ʻan rajul ḥaddatha ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb qāla lahu : kharajtu wa-aṣḥāb lī fī tijārah lanā nurīd al-Shām fa-ṣaḥibanā rajul min Yahūd fa-lammā kunnā bi-baʻḍ awdiyah al-Shām hatafa hātif

Iyyāka lā-taʻjal wa-khudhhā mūbiqah ٭ fa-inna sharra al-sayri sayru al-ḥaqḥaqah qad lāḥa najmun fa-istawá fī mashriqah ٭ bi-kashfin ʻan ẓulmā ʻabūsin mūbiqah yadʻū ilá ẓilli jinānin mūniqah,

Fa-qāla al-Yahūdī : tadrūna mā-yaqūl hādhā al-ṣārikh qulnā : mā-yaqūl qāla : yukhbiru an nabīyan qad ẓahara khilāfakum bi-Makkah fa-qadimnā fa-wajadnā al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam bi-Makkah

Wa-min bashāʼir hutūfihim mā ḥakāhu Abū ʻĪsá qāla : samiʻat Quraysh fī al-layl hātifan ʻalá Abī Qubays ( jabal ) yaqūl :

Fa-in yuslim al-Saʻdāni yu⟨...⟩baḥ Muḥammadun ٭ bi-Makkata lā-yakhshá khilāfa mukhālifi

Fa-lammā aṣbaḥū qāla Abū Sufyān man al-Saʻdān Saʻd Bakr wa-Saʻd Tamīm fa-lammā kāna fī al-laylah al-thāniyah samiʻūhu yaqūl

A-yā-Saʻda Saʻda al-Awsi kun anta nāṣiran ٭ wa-yā-Saʻda Saʻda al-Khazrajayni al-ghaṭārifi ajībā ilá dāʻī al-hudá wa-tamannayā ٭ ʻalá Allāhi fī al-Firdawsi munyata ʻārifi fa-inna thawāba Allāhi lil-ṭālibi al-hudá ٭ jinānun min al-Firdawsi dhātu zakhārifi

Qāla al-Māwardī : wa-la-in kānat hādhihi al-hutūf akhbār āḥād ʻamman lā-yurá shakhṣuhu wa-lā yaḥujj qawluhu bi-khurūjihi ʻan al-ʻādah nadhīr wa-taʼthīruhu fī al-nufūs bashīr wa-qad qabilahā al-sāmiʻūn wa-qubūl al-akhbār yuʼakkid ṣiḥḥatahā wa-yuʼayyid ḥujjatahā ( fa-in qīla ) an kānat hutūf al-jinn min dalāʼil al-nubūwah jāza an takūn dalīlan ʻalá ṣiḥḥat al-kahānah fa-ʻanhu jawābān ( aḥaduhumā ) an dalāʼil al-nubūwah ghayruhā wa-innamā hiya min al-bashāʼir bihā wa-farq bayna al-dalālah wa-al-bishārah ikhbāran ( wa-al-thānī ) an al-kahānah ʻan mughayyab wa-al-bishārah ʻan muʻayyan fa-al-ʻiyān maʻlūm wa-al-ghāʼib mawhūm āh kalām al-Māwardī

Mazāʻimuhum fī awṣāfihim wa-man qatalūhu

Yaqūlūna min al-jinn jins ṣūrah al-wāḥid minhum ʻalá niṣf ṣūrah al-insān wa-ismuhu « Shiqq » wa-annahu kathīran mā-yaʻriḍ lil-rajul al-musāfir idhā kāna waḥdahu fa-rubbamā ahlakahu fazaʻan wa-rubbamā ahlakahu ḍarban wa-qatlan ( qālū ) fa-min dhālika ḥadīth ʻAlqamah ibn Ṣafwān ibn Umayyah ibn Ḥarb al-Kinānī jadd Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam fī al-Jāhilīyah kharaja wa-huwa yurīd mālan lahu bi-Makkah wa-huwa ʻalá ḥimār wa-ʻalayhi izār wa-ridāʼ wa-maʻahu miqraʻah fī laylah aḍḥiyānīyah ḥattá intahá ilá mawḍiʻ yuqāl lahu Ḥāʼiṭ Jarmān fa-idhā huwa bi-Shiqq lahu yad wa-rijl wa-ʻayn wa-maʻahu sayf wa-huwa yaqūl

ʻAlqamu innī maqtūlu ٭ wa-inna laḥmī maʼkūlu aḍribuhum bi-al-Dhuhlūli(1) ٭ ḍarba ghulāmin shamlūli raḥbu al-dhirāʻi bahlūlu

Fa-qāla ʻAlqamah

Yā-Shiqqu hā mā-lī wa-laka ٭ aghmid ʻannī minṣalaka naqtulu man lā-yaqtuluka

Qāla Shiqq

ʻUnaytu laka ʻunaytu laka ٭ kaymā ubīḥa maqtalaka fa-iṣbir li-mā qad ḥumma laka (1)

Fa-ḍaraba kull wāḥid minhumā ṣāḥibahu fa-kharrā mayyitayn . Fa-mimman qatalat al-jinn ʻAlqamah ibn Ṣafwān hādhā wa-Ḥarb ibn Umayyah qālū wa-qālat al-jinn

Wa-qabru Ḥarbin bi-makānin qafri ٭ wa-laysa qurba qabri Ḥarbin qabru

( qālū ) wa-min al-dalīl an hādhayn al-baytayn min ashʻār al-jinn an aḥadan lā-yastaṭīʻ an yunshidahumā thalāth marrāt muttaṣilah lā-yataʻtaʻ fīhā wa-huwa yastaṭīʻ an yunshid athqal shiʻr fī al-arḍ wa-ashaqqahu ʻashr marrāt wa-lā yataʻtaʻ

( qālū ) wa-qatalat Mirdās ibn Abī ʻĀmir abā ʻAbbās ibn Mirdās — wa-qatalat al-Gharīḍ khanqan baʻda an ghanná bi-al-ghināʼ al-ladhī kānū nahawhu ʻanhu — wa-qatalat al-jinn Saʻd ibn ʻUbādah ibn Dublum wa-samiʻū al-hātif yaqūl

Naḥnu qatalnā sayyida al-Khaz ٭ raji Saʻda bna ʻUbādah wa-ramaynāhu bi-sahmayni ٭ fa-lam nakhṭi fuʼādah

Man istahwawhu(2) wa-minhum Khurāfah

( qālū ) istahwaw Sinān ibn Abī Ḥārithah li-yastafḥilūhu fa-māta fīhim wa-istahwaw Ṭālib ibn Abī Ṭālib fa-lam yūjad lahu athar ilá yawminā hādhā — wa-istahwaw ʻAmr ibn ʻAdī al-Lakhmī al-malik al-ladhī yuqāl fīhi shabba ʻAmr ʻan al-ṭawq thumma raddūhu ʻalá Jadhīmah al-Abrash baʻda sinīn — wa-istahwaw ʻUmārah ibn al-Mughīrah wa-nafakhū fī iḥlīlihi fa-ṣāra maʻa al-waḥsh

Wa-yarwūna ʻan ʻAbd Allāh ibn Qatādah yarfaʻuhu qāla : Khurāfah rajul min ʻUdhrah istahwatʹhu al-shayāṭīn

Wa-rawaw ʻan ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu annahu saʼala al-mafqūd al-ladhī istahwatʹhu al-jinn mā kāna ṭaʻāmuhum qāla : al-rawth : qāla fa-mā kāna sharābuhum qāla al-bawl

Tawṣīfuhum rijl al-ghūl wa-ʻayn al-Shayṭān

Al-ʻāmmah tazʻum an al-ghūl yataṣawwar fī aḥsan al-ṣūrah illā annahu lā-budda an takūn rijluhā rijl ḥimār , wa-akhbarū ʻan al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad an aʻrābīyan anshadahu

Wa-ḥāfiru al-ʻayri fī sāqi khadaljatin (1) ٭ wa-jafnu ʻaynin khilāfa al-insi fī al-ṭūli

Wa-dhakarū an al-ʻāmmah tazʻum an shiqq ʻayn al-Shayṭān bi-al-ṭūl : qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : wa-mā aẓunnuhum akhadhū hādhayn al-maʻnayayn illā ʻan al-Aʻrāb

Mazāʻimuhum fī arḍ Wabār wa-bilād al-Ḥawsh (2)

Tazʻum al-Aʻrāb an Allāh taʻālá ḥīna ahlaka al-ummah al-latī kānat tusammá Wabār ka-mā ahlaka Ṭamsan wa-Jadīsan wa-ʻImlāqan wa-Thamūd wa-ʻĀdan an al-jinn sakanat fī manāzilihim wa-ḥamatʹhā min kull man arādahā wa-annahā akhṣab bilād Allāh wa-aktharuhā shajaran wa-aṭyabuhā thamaran wa-aktharuhā ḥabban wa-ʻinaban wa-aktharuhā nakhlan wa-mawzan fa-in danā insān min tilka al-bilād mutaʻammidan aw ghāliṭan ḥathaw fī wajhihi al-turāb fa-in abá al-rujūʻ khabbalūhu wa-rubbamā qatalūhu

( qāla al-Jāḥiẓ ) wa-al-mawḍiʻ nafsuhu bāṭil fa-in qīla lahum dullūnā ʻalá jihatihi wa-awqifūnā ʻalá ḥaddihi wa-khalākum dhamm zaʻamū an man arādahā ulqiya ʻalá qalbihi al-ṣarfah ḥattá ka-annahum aṣḥāb Mūsá fī al-tīh wa-qāla al-shāʻir

Wa-dāʻin daʻā wa-al-laylu murkhin sudūlahu ٭ zajāʼa al-qirá yā-Muslima bna Ḥimāri daʻā juʻalan lā-yahtadī li-maqīlihi ٭ min al-luʼmi ḥattá yahtadī li-Wabāri

Fa-hādhā al-shāʻir al-aʻrābī jaʻala arḍ Wabār mathalan fī al-ḍalāl , wa-al-Aʻrāb yataḥaddathūna ʻanhā ka-mā yataḥaddathūna ʻammā yajidūnahu bi-al-Daw (3) wa-al-Ṣammān (4) wa-al-Dahnāʼ (5) wa-raml Yabrīn (6) wa-mā akthar mā-yadhkurūna arḍ Wabār fī al-shiʻr ʻalá maʻná hādhā al-shāʻir ( qālū ) fa-laysa al-yawm fī tilka al-bilād illā al-jinn wa-al-ibil al-Ḥawshīyah wa-al-ḥawsh min al-ibil ʻindahum hiya al-latī qad ḍurabat fīhā nuḥūl ibil al-jinn fa-al-Ḥawshīyah min nasl ibil al-jinn wa-al-ʻAbdīyah wa-al-Mahrīyah wa-al-ʻAsjadīyah wa-al-ʻUmānīyah qad ḍurabat fīhā al-ḥawsh wa-qāla Ruʼbah

Ḥawat rijālun min bilādi al-Ḥawshi

Wa-qāla Ibn Harmah

Ka-annī ʻalá ḥawshīyatin aw naʻāmatin ٭ lahā nasabun fī al-ṭayri wa-huwa ẓalīmu

Wa-innamā sammaw ṣāḥibah Yazīd ibn al-Ṭathrīyah Ḥawshīyah ʻalá hādhā al-maʻná , wa-qāla baʻḍ aṣḥāb al-tafsīr fī qawlihi taʻālá « wa-annahu kāna rijāl min al-ins yaʻūdhūna bi-rijāl min al-jinn fa-zādūhum rahaqan » an jamāʻah min al-ʻArab kānū idhā sārū fī tīh min al-arḍ wa-tawassaṭū bilād al-Ḥawsh khāfū ʻabath al-jinnān wa-al-saʻālī wa-al-ghīlān wa-al-shayāṭīn fa-yaqūm aḥaduhum fa-yarfaʻ ṣawtahu annā ʻāʼidhūna bi-sayyid hādhā al-wādī fa-lā yuʼdhīhim aḥad wa-taṣīr lahum bi-dhālika khifārah

Mazāʻimuhum fī al-ṣarʻ

Yazʻumūna an al-majnūn idhā ṣaraʻatʹhu al-jinnīyah wa-anna al-majnūnah idhā ṣaraʻahā al-jinnī an dhālika innamā huwa ʻalá ṭarīq al-ʻishq wa-al-hawá wa-shahwah al-nikāḥ , wa-anna al-Shayṭān yaʻshaq al-marʼah minnā — wa-anna naẓar ilayhā min ṭarīq al-ʻajab bihā ashadd ʻalayhā min ḥummá ayyām — wa-anna ʻayn al-jānn ashadd min ʻayn al-insān

Mazāʻimuhum fī al-ṭāʻūn (1)

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : al-ʻArab tazʻum an al-ṭāʻūn ṭaʻn min al-Shayṭān , wa-tusammī al-ṭāʻūn rimāḥ al-jinn , qāla al-Asadī lil-Ḥārith al-Ghassānī malik Ghassān

La-ʻamruka mā-khashītu ʻalá Ubayyin ٭ rimāḥa banī muqayyidati al-ḥimāri wa-lākinnī khashītu ʻalá Ubayyin ٭ rimāḥa al-jinni aw iyyāka Ḥāri

Yaqūl lam akun akhāf ʻalá Ubayy maʻa manʻatihi wa-ṣarāmatihi an taqtulahu al-andhāl wa-man yarbiṭ al-ʻayr dūn al-faras wa-lākinnī innamā kuntu akhāfuka ʻalayhi fa-takūn anta al-ladhī taṭʻanahu aw yaṭʻanahu ṭāʻūn al-Shām wa-qāla al-ʻUmānī yadhkur dawlah banī al-ʻAbbās qad dafaʻa Allāhu rimāḥa al-jinni ٭ wa-adhhaba al-ʻadhāba wa-al-tajannī

Wa-qāla Zayd ibn Jundab al-Iyādī :

Wa-lawlā rimāḥu al-jinni mā-kāna hazamahum ٭ rimāḥu al-aʻādī min faṣīḥin wa-aʻjami

Dhahaba ilá qawl Abī Duʼād :

Sulliṭa al-mawtu wa-al-manūnu ʻalayhim ٭ fa-lahum fī ṣadā al-maqābiri hāmu (1)

Yaʻnī al-ṭāʻūn al-ladhī aṣāba Iyādan , wa-ruwiya an ʻAmr ibn al-ʻĀdī qāma fī al-nās fī ṭāʻūn ʻAmwās fa-qāla : an hādhā al-ṭāʻūn qad ẓahara wa-innamā huwa wakhz min al-Shayṭān fa-firrū minhu fī hādhihi al-shiʻāb : wa-balagha dhālika Ibn Jabal fa-ankara ʻalayhi

Mā-yazʻumūnahu fī tamaththulihim wa-taṣawwurihim

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : tazʻum al-ʻāmmah « an Allāh taʻālá qad mallaka al-jinn wa-al-shayāṭīn wa-al-ʻummār wa-al-ghīlān an yataḥawwalū fī ayy ṣūrah shāʼū illā al-ghūl fa-innahā tataḥawwal fī jamīʻ ṣūrah al-marʼah wa-libāsihā illā rijlayhā fa-lā budda an yakūnā rijlay ḥimār »

Wa-innamā qāsū taṣawwur al-jinn ʻalá taṣawwur Jibrīl ʻalayhi al-salām fī ṣūrah Diḥyah ibn Khalīfah al-Kalbī — wa-ʻalá taṣawwur al-malāʼikah al-ladhīna ataw Maryam wa-Ibrāhīm wa-Lūṭan wa-Dāwūd fī ṣūrah al-muʼminīn — wa-ʻalá mā-jāʼa fī al-athar min taṣawwur Iblīs fī ṣūrah Surāqah ibn Mālik — wa-ʻalá taṣawwurihi fī ṣūrah al-shaykh al-Najdī

( qālū ) fa-idhā istaqāma an takhtalif ṣuwaruhum wa-akhlāṭ abdānihim wa-tattafiq ʻuqūluhum wa-nīyātuhum wa-istiṭāʻatuhum jāza ayḍan an yakūn Iblīs laʻnah Allāh ʻalayhi wa-al-Shayṭān wa-al-ghūl an yatabaddalū fī al-ṣuwar min ghayr an yatabaddalū fī al-ʻaql wa-al-bayān wa-al-istiṭāʻah āh

Wa-naqala al-ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad Ibn Ḥajar fī Fatḥ al-bārī ʻan al-Bayhaqī fī Manāqib al-Shāfiʻī bi-isnādihi ʻan al-Rabīʻ qāla samiʻtu al-Shāfiʻī yaqūl : man zaʻama annahu yará al-jinn abṭalnā shahādatahu illā an yakūn nabīyan āh

( qāla Ibn Ḥajar ) wa-hādhā maḥmūl ʻalá man yaddaʻī ruʼyatahum ʻalá ṣuwarihim al-latī khuliqū ʻalayhā wa-ammā man iddaʻá annahu yará shayʼan minhum baʻda an yataṭawwar ʻalá ṣuwar shattá min al-ḥayawān fa-lā yaqdaḥ fīhi wa-qad tawāradat al-akhbār bi-taṭawwurihim fī al-ṣuwar , ( qāla ) wa-ikhtalafa ahl al-kalām fī dhālika fa-qīla huwa takhyīl faqaṭ wa-lā yantaqil aḥad ʻan ṣūratihi al-aṣlīyah wa-qīla bal yantaqilūna lākin lā bi-iqtidārihim ʻalá dhālika bal bi-ḍarb min al-fiʻl idhā faʻalahu intaqala ka-al-siḥr ( ay al-shaʻbadhah ) ( qāla ) wa-hādhā qad yarjiʻ ilá al-awwal āh wa-sa-yaʼtī taḥqīq tamaththulihim fī awwal mabāḥith al-khātimah

Raʼyuhum fī qurnāʼ al-shuʻarāʼ al-fuḥūl

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : yazʻumūna an maʻa kull faḥl min al-shuʻarāʼ shayṭānan yaqūl dhālika al-faḥl ʻalá lisānihi al-shiʻr wa yaqūlūna ism shayṭān al-Mukhabbal (1) ʻAmr wa-ism shayṭān al-Aʻshá Misḥal (2) wa-ka-dhālika ayḍan ism shayṭān al-Farazdaq ʻAmr wa-qad dhakara al-Aʻshá Misḥalan ḥīna hajāhu Jahannām fa-qāla :

Daʻawtu khalīlī Misḥalan wa-daʻaw lahu ٭ bi-Jahannāma yudʻá lil-hajīni al-mudhammami

Wa-dhakarahu al-Aʻshá fa-qāla :

Ḥabānī akhī al-jinnīyu nafsī fidāʼuhu ٭ bi-aqbaḥi jayyāshi al-ʻashīyāti murḥami

Wa-qāla Aʻshá Sulaym :

Wa-mā-kāna jinnīyu al-Farazdaqi uswatan ٭ wa-habā kāna fīhim mithlu faḥli al-Mukhabbali wa-mā fī al-khawāfī mithlu ʻAmrin wa-shaykhihi ٭ wa-lā baʻda ʻAmrin shāʻirun mithlu Misḥali

Wa-qāla al-Farazdaq fī madīḥ Asad ibn ʻAbd-Allāh :

La-tablughanna Abā al-Ashbāli madḥatanā ٭ man kāna bi-al-ghawri aw ṭawday Khurāsānā ka-annahā al-dhahabu al-ʻiqyānu ḥabbarahā ٭ lisānu ashʻari khalqi Allāhi shayṭānā

Wa-qāla

Fa-law kunta ʻindī yawma Qurʼin ʻadhartanī ٭ bi-yawmin dahatnī jinnuhu wa-khabāʼiluhu

Fa-min ajl hādhā al-bayt wa-min ajl qawl al-ākhar

Idhā mā-zāʻa jāriyatan (3) fa-lāqá ٭ khabāla Allāhi min insin wa-jinni

Zaʻamū an al-khābil al-nās . Wa-lammā qāla Bashshār ibn Burd

Daʻānī Shanqanānu ilá khalfi bakratin ٭ fa-qultu utruknī fa-antafarida aḥmadi

Ay aḥmad lī fī al-shiʻr min an yakūn lī ʻalayhi min muʻīn fa-qāla Aʻshá Sulaym yarudd ʻalayhi

Idhā alifa al-jinnīyu qirdan mushannafan ٭ fa-qūlū li-khinzīri al-Jazīrati abshiri

Fa-jaziʻa Bashshār ʻinda dhālika jazaʻan shadīdan li-annahu kāna yaʻlam maʻa taghazzulihi an wajhahu wajh qird wa-kāna awwal mā ʻurifa min jazaʻihi min dhikr al-qird al-ladhī , raʼaw minhu ḥattá unshida qawl Ḥammād ʻAjrad

Wa-yā aqbaḥa min qirdin ٭ idhā mā ʻamiya al-qirdu

Wa-fī an maʻa kull shāʻir shayṭānan buqāl maʻahu qawl Abī al-Najm

Innī wa-kullu shāʻirin min al-bashari ٭ shayṭānuhu unthá wa-shayṭānī dhakaru

Wa-qāla ākhar

Innī wa-in kuntu ṣaghīra al-sinni ٭ wa-kāna fī al-ʻayni nabwun ʻannī fa-inna shayṭānī kabīru al-jinni

Wa-ammā qawl ʻAmr ibn Kulthūm

Wa-qad harrat kilābu al-jinni minnā ٭ wa-shadhdhabnā qatādata man yalīnā

Fa-innahum yazʻumūna an kilāb al-jinn hum al-shuʻarāʼ . Wa-mimmā dalla ʻalá annahum yaqūlūna an maʻa kull shāʻir shayṭānan qawl shāʻirihim

Idhā mā taraʻraʻa fīnā al-ghulā ٭ mu fa-laysa yuqālu lahu man huwah idhā lam yasud qabla shaddi al-izā ٭ ri fa-dhālika fīnā al-ladhī lā huwah wa-lī ṣāḥibun min banī al-Shayṣabā ٭ ni fa-ṭawran aqūlu wa-ṭawran huwah

Wa-Shayṣabān wa-Shanqanān raʼīsān wa-min ābāʼ al-qabāʼil fī zaʻmihim wa-qad dhakarahumā Abū al-Najm li-annī Shanqanān wa-Shayṣabān

Khayāluhum fī jinn al-Shām wa-al-Hind

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : wa-aṣḥāb al-ruqī wa-al-akhdh wa-al-ʻazāʼim wa-al-siḥr wa-al-shaʻbadhah yazʻumūna an al-ʻadad wa-al-qūwah fī al-jinn wa-al-shayāṭīn li-nazālah al-Shām wa-al-Hind wa-anna ʻaẓīm shayāṭīn al-Hind buqāl lahu ( Sakū yark ) wa-ʻaẓīm shayāṭīn al-Shām buqāl lahu « Dar Kārāb » wa-qad dhakarahumā Abū Isḥāq fī hijāʼihi Muḥammad ibn Bashīr ḥīna iddaʻá hādhihi al-ṣināʻah fa-qāla

Qad la-ʻamrī jamaʻta min aṣʻiyābi ٭ thumma min shaʻri Ādama wa-al-kharābi wa-tafarradta bi-al-ṭawāliqi wa-al-haykali ٭ wa-al-dahtamāti min kulli bābi wa-ʻalimta al-asmāʼa kay mā-tulāqī ٭ Zuḥalan wa-al-Mirrīkha fawqa al-saḥābi wa-istatharta al-arwāḥa bi-al-baḥri yaʼtīna ٭ aṣraḥu al-ṣaḥīja baʻda al-muṣābi jāmiʻan min laṭāʼifi al-dahmasiyā ٭ ti kūsan naʻtuhā fī kitābi thumma aḥkamta muthqana al-karawiyā ٭ ti wa-fiʻli al-nārīsi wa-al-nijābi thumma lam taftuka al-siʻāyatu wa-al-khid ٭ matu wa-al-iḥtifāʼu bi-al-ṭullābi bi-al-khawātīmi wa-al-manādīli wa-al-saʻá ٭ bi-Sakūyarka wa-Darkārābi

Tawahhumuhum malāmiḥ al-jinn fī al-ins

Qāla al-Qaʻqāʻ ibn Maʻbad ibn Zurārah fī ibnihi ʻAwf ibn al-Qaʻqāʻ : wa-Allāh la-mā ará fī ʻAwf min shamāʼil al-jinn akthar mimmā ará fīhi min shamāʼil al-ins : wa-qāla Bujayr ibn Ayyūb :

Akhū qafarātin ḥālafa al-jinna wa-antafá ٭ min al-insi ḥattá qad taqaḍḍat wasāʼiluhu lahu nasabu al-insīyi yuʻrafu najluhu ٭ wa-lil-jinni minhu khalquhu wa-shamāʼiluhu

Wa-qāla al-ākhar :

Wa-ṣāra khalīla al-ghūli baʻda ʻadāwatin ٭ ṣafīyan wa-rabbatʹhu al-qifāru al-basābisu fa-laysa bi-jinnīyin fa-yuʻrafa najluhu ٭ wa-lā huwa insun taḥtawīhi al-majālisu yaẓillu wa-lā-yubdī li-shayʼin nahārahu ٭ wa-lākinnahu bi-nishāʻin (1) wa-al-laylu dāmisu

Qawluhum fī junūn al-jinn wa-ṣarʻ al-Shayṭān

Anshada aʻrābī :

Fa-mā yuʻjibu al-jinnāna minka ʻalimtuhum ٭ wa-fī al-Asadi afrāsun lahum wa-najāʼibu a-tusriju yarbūʻan wa-tuljimu qunfudhan ٭ laqad aʻwazatʹhum mā-ʻalimtu al-marākibu fa-in kānat al-jinnānu junnat fa-bi-al-ḥará ٭ wa-lā-dhanba al-aqdāri wa-Allāhu ghālibu wa-mā al-nāsu illā-khādiʻun wa-mukhdaʻun ٭ wa-ṣāḥibu isʹhābin wa-ākharu kādhibu

Wa-qāla Daʻlaj ibn al-Ḥakam

wa kayfa bafīqu al-dahri Kaʻbu bnu Nāshibin ٭ wa-shayṭānuhu ʻinda al-ahillati yuṣraʻu

Wa-anshada ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Manṣūr al-Asadī

Junūnuka majnūnun wa-lasta bi-wājidin ٭ ṭabīban yudāwī min junūni junūni

Wa-anshada

Atawnī bi-majnūnin yasīlu luʻābuhu ٭ wa-mā ṣāḥibī illā al-ṣaḥīḥu al-musallamu

Wa-qāla Ibn Mayyādah

Fa-lammā atānī mā naqūlu Muḥāribu ٭ taghannat shayāṭīnu wa-junna junūnuhā wa-ḥākat lahā mimmā aqūlu qaṣāʼidā ٭ tarāmat bihā ṣuhbu al-mahārī wa-jūnuhā

Wa-qāla fī al-tamthīl

Inna shurkha al-shabābi (1) wa-al-shaʻra al-aswa ٭ da mā-lam yuʻāḍ kāna junūnā

Wa-qāla al-ākhar

Qālat ʻahidtuka majnūnan fa-qultu lahā ٭ inna al-shabāba junūnun burʼuhu al-kibaru

Wa-mā aḥsan mā qāla al-shāʻir

Jādat bihā ʻinda al-ghadāti yamīnuhu ٭ kiltā baday ʻAmrin al-ghadāta yamīnu mā an yajūda bi-mithlihā fī mithlihi ٭ illā karīmu al-khīmi (2) aw majnūnu

Wa-qāla al-Jumaḥī

Wa-law annanī lam anal minkum muʻāqabatan ٭ illā al-sinānu bi-dhāti al-mawti maṭʻūnu aw-lā khaṭabtu fa-innī qad hamamtu bihi ٭ bi-al-sayfi inna khaṭība al-sayfi majnūnu

Wa-anshada

Hum aḥmaw ḥimá al-ruqbá bi-ḍarbin ٭ buʼallifu bayna ashtāti al-manūni fa-nukkiba ʻanhum darʼu al-aʻādī ٭ wa-dāwaw bi-al-junūni min al-junūni

Mā yaḥkūnahu min nīrān al-saʻālī wa-al-jinn

Anshada Abū Zabd li-Sahm ibn al-Ḥārith

Wa-nārin qad ḥaḍaʼtu baʻīda hadʼin ٭ bi-dārin lā urīdu bihā maqāmā siwá taḥāyuli rāḥilatin wa-ʻaynin ٭ ukāliʼuhā makhāfata an tanāmā atū nārī fa-qultu manūna antum ٭ fa-qālū al-jinnu qultu ʻimū-ẓalāmā fa-qultu ilá al-ṭaʻāmi fa-qāla minhum ٭ zaʻīmun naḥsudu al-insa al-ṭaʻāmā

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ : wa-hādhā ghalaẓ wa-laysa min hādhā al-bāb bal al-ladhī buqaʻ hāhunā qawl Abī al-Miṭrāb ʻUbayd ibn Ayyūb

Fa-li-Allāhi darru al-ghūli ayyu rafīqatin ٭ li-ṣāḥibi qafrin khāʼifin mutanaffiri arannat (1) bi-al-ḥinni baʻda laḥnin wa-awqadat ٭ ḥawālayya nīrānun tabūkhu (2) wa-tazharu

Falsafah mā tazʻumuhu al-Aʻrāb min ʻazīf al-jinnān wa-taghawwul al-ghīlān

Qāla al-Jāḥiẓ raḥimahu Allāh : kāna Abū-Isḥāq buqūl fī al-ladhī tadhkur al-Aʻrāb min ʻazīf al-jinnān wa-taghawwul al-ghīlān aṣl hādhā al-amr wa-ibtidāʼuhu an al-qawm lammā nazalū bi-bilād al-waḥsh ʻamilat fīhim al-waḥshah , wa-man infarada wa-ṭāla maqāmuhu fī al-bilād wa-al-khalāʼ wa-al-buʻd min al-ins istawḥasha wa-lā-siyyamā maʻa qillah al-ishtighāl wa-al-mudhākirīn wa-al-waḥdah , lā taqṭaʻ ayyāmahum illā bi-al-muná aw bi-al-tafkīr , wa-al-fikr rubbamā kāna min asbāb al-waswasah wa-qad ubtuliya bi-dhālika ghayr ḥāsib ka-Abī Yāsir wa-Mathná walad al-Fanāfir (qāla) wa-akhbaranī al-Aʻmash annahu fakkara fī masʼalah fa-ankara ahluhu ʻaqlahu ḥattá ḥamawhu wa-dāwawhu , wa-qad ʻaraḍa dhālika li-kathīr min al-Hind wa-idhā istawḥasha al-insān muthila lahu al-shayʼ al-ṣaghīr fī ṣūrah al-kabīr wa-irtāba wa-tafarraqa dhihnuhu wa-inthaqaḍat akhlāṭuhu fa-yará mā-lā-yurá wa-yasmaʻ mā-lā-yasmaʻ wa-yatawahham ʻalá al-shayʼ al-ṣaghīr al-ḥaqīr annahu ʻaẓīm jalīl thumma jaʻalū mā taṣawwara lahum min dhālika shiʻran tanāshadūhu wa-aḥādīth tawārathūhā fa-izdādū bi-dhālika īmānan wa-nashaʼa ʻalayhi al-nāshiʼ wa-rubbiya bihi al-ṭifl fa-ṣāra aḥaduhum ḥīna yatawassaṭ al-fayāfī wa-tashtamil ʻalayhi al-ghayṭān fī al-layālī al-khanādis , fa-ʻinda awwal waḥshah aw fazʻah wa-ʻinda ṣiyāḥ būm wa-mujāwabah ṣadā wa-qad raʼá kull bāṭil wa-tawahhama kull zūr wa-rubbamā kāna fī al-jins wa-aṣl al-ṭabīʻah naffāḥan kadhdhāban wa-ṣāḥib tashnīʻ wa-tahwīl fa-yaqūl fī dhālika min al-shiʻr ʻalá ḥasab hādhihi al-ṣifah fa-ʻinda dhālika yaqūl raʼaytu al-ghīlān wa-kallamtu al-siʻlāh thumma yatajāwaz dhālika ilá an yaqūl qataltuhā thumma yatajāwaz dhālika ilá an yaqūl rāfaqtuhā thumma yatajāwaz dhālika ilá an yaqūl tazawwajtuhā

Qāla ʻUbayd ibn Ayyūb fa-li-Allāhi darru al-ghūli ayyu rafīqatin ٭ li-ṣāḥibi qafrin khāʼifin mutanaffiri

Wa-qāla

A-hādhā rafīqu al-ghūli wa-al-dhiʼbi wa-al-ladhī ٭ yahīmu bi-rabbāti al-ḥijāli al-hawākili

Wa-qāla ākhar

Akhū qafarātin ḥālafa al-jinna wa-antafá ٭ min al-insi ḥattá qad taqaḍḍat wasāʼiluhu lahu nasabu al-insīyi yuʻrafu najluhu ٭ wa-lil-jinni minhu khalquhu wa-shamāʼiluhu

Wa-mimmā zādahum fī hādhā al-bāb wa-aghrāhum bihi wa-madda lahum fīhi annahum laysa yalqawna bi-hādhihi al-ashʻār wa-bi-hādhihi al-akhbār illā aʻrābīyan mithlahum wa-illā ghabīyan lam yaʼkhudh nafsahu qaṭṭ li-tamyīz mā-yūjib al-takdhīb wa-al-taṣdīq aw al-shakk wa-lam yasluk sabīl al-tawaqquf wa-al-tathabbut fī hādhihi al-ajnās qaṭṭ — wa-ammā an yalqaw riwāyah shiʻr aw ṣāḥib khabar fa-al-riwāyah ʻindahum ka-mā kāna al-aʻrābī akdhab fī shiʻrihi kāna aẓraf ʻindahum wa-ṣārat riwāyatuhu aghlab wa-maḍāḥīk ḥadīthihi akthar fa-li-dhālika ṣāra baʻḍuhum yaddaʻī ruʼyah al-ghūl aw-qatlihā aw murāfaqatihā aw tazwījihā , wa-ākhar yazʻum annahu rāfaqa fī maghārah namiran fa-kāna yuṭāʻimuhu wa-buʼākiluhu fa-min hāʼulāʼ khāṣṣah al-Qattāl al-Kilābī fa-innahu al-ladhī yaqūl

A-yursilu Marwānu al-amīru risālatan ٭ li-ātiyahu innī idhan la-muḍallalu wa-mā bī ʻiṣyānun wa-lā buʻdu manhalin ٭ wa-lākinnanī min khawfi Marwāna awjalu wa-fī sāḥati al-ʻanqāʼi aw fī ʻamāyatin ٭ aw al-Awdi (1) mā-min rahbati al-mawti mawʼilu wa-lī ṣāḥibun fī al-ghāri hadaka ṣāḥiban ٭ huwa al-jawnu (2) illā annahu lā-yuʻallalu idhā mā iltaqaynā kāna julla ḥadīthinā ٭ ṣumātan wa-ṭarfun ka-al-maʻābili (3) akḥalu taḍammanat al-arwá (4) lanā bi-ṭaʻāminā ٭ kilānā lahu minhā naṣībun wa-maʼkalu fa-aghlibuhu fī ṣanʻati al-zādi annanī ٭ umīṭu al-adhá ʻanhu wa-lā yataʼammalu wa-kānat lanā ṭibbun (5) bi-arḍin muḍillatin ٭ sharīʻatunā lā ⟨...⟩ man jāʼa awwalu kilānā ʻaduwwun law yará fī ʻaduwwihi ٭ maḥzan wa-kullun fī al-ʻadāwati muḥmalu

Wa-anshada al-Aṣmaʻī

Ẓalalnā maʻan jārayni naḥtarisu al-thaʼya (1) ٭ yushāribunī min faḍlatī wa-ushāribuhu

Dhakara sabuʻan wa-rajulan qad tawāfaqā fa-ṣāra kull wāḥid minhumā yadaʻ faḍlan min suʼrihi li-yashrab ṣāḥibuhu , wa-al-thaʼy al-fasād , wa-akhbara an kull wāḥid minhumā yaḥtaris min ṣāḥibihi

Fa-ammā min jamīʻ mā-dhakarnāhu ʻanhum fa-namā yukhbirūna ʻanhu min jihah al-ʻāyinah wa-al-taḥqīq wa-innamā al-mithl fī hādhā mithl qawlihi

Qad kāna shayṭānuka min khuṭṭābihā ٭ wa-kāna shayṭānī min ṭullābihā ḥīnan fa-lammā iʻtarakā alwá bihā

Wa-al-insān yajūʻ fa-yasmaʻ fī udhnihi ka-al-dawīy wa-qāla al-shāʻir

Dawīyu al-fayāfī rābahu , fa-ka-annahu ٭ amīmun (2) wa-sārī al-layli lil-ḍawʼi yaʻūdu

Yaʻūdu ay yaḍjar , wa-rubbamā qāla al-ghulām li-mawlāhu daʻawtanī fa-yaqūl lā wa-innamā iʻtará masāmiʻahu , dhālika li-ʻaraḍ li-annahu sabuʻa ṣawtan

Wa-min hādhā al-bāb qawl Taʼabbaṭa Sharran aw qawl al-qāʼil fī kalimah lahu

Yaẓillu bi-mawmātin wa-yumsī bi-qafratin ٭ jaḥīshan (3) wa-bi-ʻurūrī ẓuhūri al-mahāliki wa-yasbiqu wafda al-rīḥi min ḥaythu yantaḥī ٭ bi-munkhariqin min shaddihi al-mutadāriki idhā khāṭa ʻaynayhi kará al-nawmi lam yazal ٭ lahu kāliʼun min qalbin shabḥāna fātiki wa-yajʻalu ʻaynayhi rabīʼata qalbihi ٭ ilá sallatin min ḥaddin akhḍara bātiki idhā hazzahu fī ʻaẓmi qarnin tadhallalat ٭ nawājidhu afwāhi al-manāyā al-ḍawāḥiki yará al-insa waḥshīya al-falāti wa-yahtadī ٭ bi-ḥaythu ihtadat ummu al-nujūmi al-shawābiki

( qāla al-Jāḥiẓ ) : wa-yadull ʻalá mā-qāla Abū Isḥāq min nuzūlihim fī bilād al-waḥsh wa-bayna al-ḥasharāt wa-al-sibāʻ mā-rawāhu lanā Abū Musʹhir ʻan aʻrābī min banī Tamīm nazala nāḥiyah al-Shām fa-kāna lā-yaʻdimuhu fī kull laylah an yaʻuḍḍahu aw yaʻuḍḍ waladahu aw baʻḍ ḥāshiyatihi sabuʻ min al-sibāʻ aw dābbah min dawābb al-arḍ fa-qāla

Taʻāwaranī daynun wa-dhullun wa-ghurbatun ٭ wa-mazzaqa jildī nābu sabuʻin wa-mikhlabu wa-fī al-arḍi aḥnāshun wa-sabuʻun wa-ḥāribu ٭ wa-naḥnu asārá wasṭahā nuthāqibu

Thumma ʻadda fī qaṣīdatihi mā-yanīf ʻan al-thalāthīn ṣinfan mā-bayna ḥayawān wa-ḥasharāt

— al-ḥawāshī —

[6] «1» jamʻ ghūl wa-hiya shayṭān yaʼkul al-nās — bi-zaʻmihim — aw dābbah raʼatʹhā al-ʻArab ( Qāmūs )

[6] «2» maṣdar mīmī ay qurbuhu

[6] «3» jamʻ wadham ka-sabab wa-asbāb wa-huwa sayr yushadd fī al-ʻunuq

[6] «4» bi-fatḥatayn ḥabl yushadd fī al-wasaṭ

[6] «5» dhanabahu yadhnibuhu wa-yadhnubuhu talāhu fa-lam yufāriq atharahu ka-istadhnabahu

[7] «1» al-ʻīs bi-al-kasr al-ibil al-bīḍ

[7] «2» ay yamshī mishyah al-shaykh

[7] «3» al-ḥashsh muthallathah mawḍiʻ qaḍāʼ al-ḥājah

[7] «4» jamʻ kirbās wa-huwa thawb quṭn wa-al-karbasah mashy al-muqayyad

[7] «5» jamʻ ʻārim wa-huwa al-shars al-shadīd al-muʼdhī

[7] «6» ay jumūʻ ʻaẓīmah

[7] «7» bi-fatḥāt laqab Ḥudhayfah jadd Jarīr al-shāʻir

[7] «8» jamʻ jinn

[7] «9» bi-fatḥatayn nawʻ min al-sayr

[7] «10» al-rasīm ḥusn al-mashy

[7] «11» ka-haykal sarīʻ al-mashy

[7] «12» ṣāra ilá al-ḥawb bi-al-fatḥ wa-huwa al-ithm

[7] (13) al-ʻazīf ṣawt al-jinn wa-huwa jars yusmaʻ fī al-mafāwiz bi-al-layl wa-al-hadd al-ṣawt al-ghalīẓ

[7] (14) aʻsafa ʻan al-ṭarīq māla wa-ʻadala wa-takhabbaṭa ʻalá ghayr hidāyah

[7] (15) al-hām jamʻ hāmah wa-huwa ṭāʼir min ṭayr al-layl wa-huwa al-ṣadá

[7] (16) al-zajal bi-fatḥatayn rafʻ al-ṣawt

[7] (17) jamʻ ʻayshūmah wa-hiya shajar wa-mā hāja min nabt

[8] (1) al-dawwīyah al-falāh

[8] (2) al-yamm al-baḥr

[8] (3) takallama bi-al-aʻjamīyah

[8] (4) aʻrasa al-qawm nazalū ākhir al-layl lil-istirāḥah ka-ʻarrasū wa-al-mawḍiʻ maʻras wa-muʻarras wa-al-surá ka-hudá sayr ʻāmmah al-layl

[8] (5) arḍ tīh muḍillah

[8] (6) irtamá bihi alqāhu

[8] (7) taṭāwaḥat bihi al-nawá tarāmat

[8] (8) dāʼ fī al-wajh

[8] (9) al-shatar inqilāb al-jafn min aʻlá wa-asfal wa-inshiqāquhu

[8] (10) hādhā ka-qawl al-ākhar min al-muwalladīn fī al-Turk qawmun idhā qūbilū kānū malāʼikatan ٭ ḥusnan wa-in qūtilū kānū ʻafārītā

[9] (1) ay qadaḥī

[9] (2) ay al-mashdūd bi-al-sharaj wa-huwa al-ʻury

[9] (3) al-fall al-thalm

[9] (4) al-ṭayr idhā kānat ʻalá shajar aw arḍ yuqāl lahā wuqūʻ wa-waqʻ

[9] (5) ay amnaʻuhā

[9] (6) ay al-kadhib

[9] (7) ay dhallilhā

[9] (8) ka-rummān ḥijārah ʻirāḍ riqāq wa-al-ʻamad jamʻ ʻimād

[10] (1) al-Ablaq al-Fard ḥiṣn lil-Samawʼal ibn ʻĀdiyā banāhu abūhu aw Sulaymān bi-arḍ Taymāʼ wa-qaṣadatʹhu al-Zabbāʼ fa-ʻajazat ʻanhu wa-ʻan Mārid fa-qālat : tamarrada Mārid wa-ʻazza al-Ablaq wa-Taymāʼ qaryah maʻrūfah ʻalá naḥw ʻashr sāʻāt min manzilah al-Muʻaẓẓam — iḥdá manāzil wa-mawāqif al-sikkah al-Ḥijāzīyah — tābiʻah li-ḥukūmah Najd

[10] (2) al-ḥiqbah bi-al-kasr muddah min al-dahr lā-waqta lahā wa-al-sanah

[10] (3) ka-Jaʻfar mā yuqilluhu al-rajul min al-ḥijārah

[10] (4) ay muḥkam

[10] (5) bi-ḍamm fa-sukūn iḥdá diyārāt al-ʻArab

[10] (6) bi-fatḥ awwalihi maqṣūr al-ākhar munawwanan jamʻ saḥāh wa-hiya nāḥiyah wa-shajarah shākah

[10] (7) al-khallah bi-al-fatḥ al-thuqbah al-ṣaghīrah wa-al-ramlah al-munfaridah

[10] (8) al-khamar bi-fatḥatayn mā-wārāka min shajar wa-ghayrihi wa-jabal bi-al-Quds ka-mā fī al-Qāmūs

[10] (9) ay al-sharāsah wa-al-adhá

[10] «10» jamʻ aghlab

[10] «11» tashadhdhara tahayyaʼa lil-qitāl wa-tawaʻʻada wa-tahaddada

[10] «12» bi-ḍamm fa-kasr yuqāl qawm budī wa-budā bādūn

[10] «13» al-samk ṣadaʼ al-ḥadīd

[10] «14» bi-fatḥ awwalihi wa-thānīhi wa-tashdīd thālithihi maftūḥan labūs ka-al-dirʻ

[10] «15» wād wa-mawḍiʻ bi-raml ʻĀlij kathīr al-jinn «Qāmūs»

[10] «16» mawḍiʻ kathīr al-jinn «Qāmūs»

[10] «17» ay al-rumḥ wa-aṣl al-washīj shajar al-rimāḥ

[11] «1» al-shamaṭ bayāḍ al-raʼs yukhāliṭ sawādahu

[11] «2» bi-takhfīf al-rāʼ fī al-Qāmūs hum sādah al-malāʼikah

[11] «3» bi-ḍamm fa-sukūn qāla fī al-Qāmūs huwa al-shujāʻ al-ladhī lā-yuhtadá min ayna yuʼtá

[11] «4» bi-fatḥ al-ḥāʼ shajar shabīh bi-al-tīn aḥabb shajar ilá al-ḥayyāt

[11] «5» ka-dirham nabt lā-yurʻá

[11] «6» bi-ḍamm al-khāʼ huwa al-kabīr

[11] «7» bi-al-ḍamm ay khayshūmuhu

[12] «1» ay ʻalá ṣadrihi

[12] «2» al-dāwiyah al-falāh wa-al-sabsab al-arḍ al-baʻīdah al-mustawiyah wa-al-samlaq al-qāʻ al-ṣafṣaf

[12] «3» al-ʻīrānah bi-al-fatḥ min al-ibil al-nājiyah fī nashāṭ . Wa-al-fanīq al-faḥl al-mukarram . Wa-al-āl al-sarāb

[12] «4» bi-kasr fa-fatḥ kathīr al-sibāb

[12] «5» ay al-birāz ay law bārazanāhum rajul rajul la-ghālabū bi-fatḥ al-bāʼ

[13] «1» yuqāl huwa miḥashsh ḥarb bi-al-kasr ay, mūqid lahā

[13] «2» ay ṣāḥat

[13] (3) ka-amīr wād

[14] ( 1 ) al-adrās jamʻ dirīs wa-huwa al-thawb al-khalaq

[14] ( 2 ) al-ghabrāʼ min al-sinīn al-jadbah

[14] ( 3 ) jamʻ basbas ka-sabsab aw-huwa maqlūbuhu wa-huwa al-qafr al-khālī

[14] «4» bi-kasr al-waḥdah mawḍiʻ

[14] «5» al-arḍ al-mustawiyah al-jardāʼ

[14] «6» al-niḍw bi-al-kasr ḥadīdah al-lijām al-mahzūl min al-ibil

[14] «7» bi-fatḥ al-shīn ay muʻāb

[15] «1» bi-fatḥ al-sīn ay ẓahruhā

[15] «2» bi-fatḥ al-dāl huwa walad al-nāqah nāqiṣ al-khalq

[15] «3» ḥaḍaʼa al-nār awqadahā

[15] «4» taṣghīr baʻd

[15] «5» ay asraʻa fawqa-nāqah . Wa-al-laʼy al-shiddah wa-al-isālah al-jary wa-al-iʻāmah masīr al-ibil

[16] «1» al-ṭarīf al-mustaḥdath wa-al-talīd al-qadīm

[17] «1» al-riʼī ka-ghanī wa-yuksar jinnī yurá fa-yuḥabb aw al-maksūr lil-maḥbūb minhum ( Qāmūs )

[17] «2» qāla Ibn al-Athīr fī al-Nihāyah : al-kāhin al-ladhī yataʻāṭá al-khabar ʻan al-kāʼināt fī mustaqbal al-zamān wa-yaddaʻī maʻrifah al-asrār wa-qad kāna fī al-ʻArab kahanah ka-Shiqq wa-Saṭīḥ wa-ghayrihimā fa-minhum man kāna yazʻum an lahu tābiʻan min al-jinn wa-riʼīyan yulqī ilayhi al-akhbār wa-minhum man kāna yazʻum annahu yaʻrif al-umūr bi-muqaddimāt asbāb yastadill bihā ʻalá mawāqiʻihā min kalām man yasʼaluhu aw fiʻlihi aw ḥālihi wa-hādhā yakhuṣṣūnahu bi-ism al-ʻarrāf ka-al-ladhī yaddaʻī maʻrifah al-shayʼ al-masrūq wa-makān al-ḍāllah wa-naḥwihimā āh wa-qāla ayḍan : al-ʻarrāf al-munajjim aw al-ḥāzī al-ladhī yaddaʻī ʻilm al-ghayb wa-qad istaʼthara Allāh taʻālá bihi

[18] ( 1 ) al-ʻiyāfah zajr al-ṭayr wa-al-faʼūl bi-asmāʼihā wa-aṣwātihā wa-mamarrihā wa-kāna dhālika min ʻādah al-ʻArab kathīran wa-huwa kathīr fī ashʻārihim yuqāl ʻāfa yaʻīf idhā zajara wa-ḥadasa wa-ẓanna . Afādahu Ibn al-Athīr . Wa-qāla ayḍan al-zajr lil-ṭayr huwa al-tayammun wa-al-tashawwum bihā wa-al-tafawwul bi-ṭayrānihā ka-al-sāniḥ wa-al-bāriḥ wa-huwa nawʻ min al-kahānah wa-al-ʻiyāfah

[21] ( 1 ) al-Dhuhlūl bi-al-ḍamm al-faras al-jawād wa-laʻalla al-murād bihi hunā al-sayf

[22] ( 1 ) ay qaḍá

[22] ( 2 ) fī al-Qāmūs : istahwatʹhu al-shayāṭīn dhahabat bi-hawāhu wa-ʻaqlihi aw istahāmatʹhu wa-ḥayyaratʹhu aw zayyanat lahu hawāhu

[23] ( 1 ) khadaljah ay mumtaliʼah

[23] ( 2 ) bi-ḍamm al-ḥāʼ al-muhmalah fī al-Qāmūs : al-Ḥawshu bilād al-jinn aw nuḥūl al-jinn

[23] ( 3 ) al-Daw — wa-al-dawwīyah — wa-al-dāwiyah — wa-yukhaffaf al-falāh wa-dawwá tadwibah akhadha fī al-Daw

[23] ( 4 ) al-Ṣammān kull arḍ ṣalbah dhāt ḥijārah ilá janb raml wa-mawḍiʻ bi-ʻĀlij

[23] ( 5 ) al-Dahnāʼ al-falāh wa-mawḍiʻ li-Tamīm bi-Najd

[23] ( 6 ) wa-yuqāl Abrīn qāla fī al-Qāmūs : raml lā-tudrak aṭrāfuhu ʻan yamīn maṭlaʻ al-shams min ḥajar al-Yamāmah .

[24] ( 1 ) aṣl al-ṭāʻūn al-ṭaʻn wa-al-qatl bi-al-rimāḥ thumma uṭliqa ʻalá al-maraḍ al-ʻāmm wa-al-wabāʼ al-ladhī yakthur fīhi al-mawtān .

[25] ( 1 ) al-hāmah ism ṭāʼir kānū yatashāʼamūna bihā wa-hiya min ṭayr al-layl wa-qad qīla annahā al-būmah wa-kānat al-Aʻrāb tazʻum an rūḥ al-qatīl al-ladhī lā-yudrak bi-thaʼrihi taṣīr hāmah fa-taqūl isqūnī fa-idhā udrika bi-thaʼrihi ṭārat wa-qīla kānū yazʻumūna an ʻiẓām al-mayt aw rūḥahu taṣīr hāmah fa-taṭīr wa-yusammūnahu al-ṣadá fa-nafāhu al-Islām wa-nahāhum ʻanhu ( āh Nihāyah )

[26] ( 1 ) bi-zinah ism mafʻūl

[26] ( 2 ) ka-minbar

[26] ( 3 ) ay ijtadhabahā

[28] (1) ay yakhruj

[29] (1) ay awwaluhu

[29] (2) bi-kasr al-khāʼ al-muʻjamah al-sajīyah wa-al-ṭabīʻah

[30] (1) ay ṣawwatat

[30] (2) ay taskun

[31] (1) al-Awd bi-al-ḍamm mawḍiʻ bi-al-bādiyah

[31] (2) ay al-aswad

[31] (3) jamʻ miʻbalah bi-kasr fa-sukūn wa-huwa al-naṣl al-ʻarīḍ al-ṭawīl

[31] (4) bi-ḍamm al-hamzah unthá al-wuʻūl

[31] (5) bi-al-kasr ay ʻādah wa-shaʼn

[32] (1) ka-al-thará al-ifsād wa-sa-yadhkuruhu

[32] (2) al-umaymah ka-Juhaynah al-ḥijārah tushdakh bihā al-ruʼūs

[32] (3) al-jaḥīsh ka-amīr al-shiqq wa-al-nāḥiyah