"So do not equate me with an inexperienced youth; may you be watered by rain-bearing clouds when they pour down." (1)
Meaning: when they descend. It is originally ṣaywib, but when the wāw is preceded by a quiescent yāʾ, they both become a doubled yāʾ, just as it is said: sayyid (master), from sāda yasūdu, and jayyid (good), from jāda yajūdu. Likewise, the Arabs do with the wāw whenever it is vocalized and preceded by a quiescent yāʾ: they turn them both into a doubled yāʾ.
And the scholars of interpretation said the same as what we have said regarding that.
- Mention of those who said that:
405- Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Aḥmasī narrated to me, he said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd narrated to us, he said: Hārūn ibn ʿAntara narrated to us, from his father, from Ibn ʿAbbās, regarding His statement, {"or like a rainstorm from the sky"}, he said: Rain.
406- ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad narrated to me, he said: Ḥajjāj narrated to us, he said: Ibn Jurayj said: ʿAṭāʾ said to me: Al-Ṣayyib is rain.
407- Al-Muthannā narrated to me, he said: Abū Ṣāliḥ narrated to us, he said: Muʿāwiya ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to me, from ʿAlī, from Ibn ʿAbbās, he said: Al-Ṣayyib is rain.
408- Mūsā narrated to me, he said: ʿAmr narrated to us, he said: Asbāṭ narrated to us, from
Notes
- (1) This verse is at the beginning of the poem. He addresses his female companion. In the printed edition it is "Muʿammar", which is an error. Al-mughammar and al-ghamr: the ignorant person who has not experienced matters, as if ignorance has overwhelmed him and overcome him. The second hemistich is a supplication for her for fertility and abundance. Al-rawāyā is the plural of rāwiya: the beast that carries water-skins. Al-muzn: white clouds, which he compared to water-carrying beasts. The narration in his Dīwān and al-Mufaḍḍaliyyāt is "saqātki" (may it water you).
- (2) Chain of transmission 405—Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Samura al-Aḥmasī—teacher of al-Ṭabarī: trustworthy, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Mājah, and others narrated from him. He has a biography in al-Tahdhīb. Ibn Abī Ḥātim biographized him in 3/2/190. Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd: he is al-Ṭanāfisī al-Aḥdab, a well-known trustworthy narrator; Aḥmad, Isḥāq, Ibn Maʿīn, and others narrated from him. Hārūn ibn ʿAntara ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān: trustworthy, declared trustworthy by Aḥmad, Ibn Saʿd, and others. Al-Bukhārī biographized him in al-Kabīr 4/2/221 and did not mention any discrediting regarding him, as did Ibn Saʿd 6: 243. His father: he is ʿAntara ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and his kunya is "Abū Wakīʿ", and he is a Successor (Tabi'i). Al-Bukhārī said in al-Kabīr 4/1/84: "He saw ʿAlī; his son Hārūn and Abū Sinān narrated from him." Ibn Saʿd biographized him in al-Ṭabaqāt 6: 163, and Ibn Abī Ḥātim in 3/2/35, noting that he narrated from ʿUthmān, ʿAlī, and Ibn ʿAbbās, and that Abū Zurʿa was asked about him and said: "Kūfan, trustworthy."
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