The war of “Dahis and al-Ghubra” is considered the most painful horrific wars in the history of the Arabs in the Jahiliyya, which broke out due to the horse race, which lasted for nearly forty years between the tribes of Abs and Dhebian Bani Bhaidh bin Reith bin Ghatfan.
The first spark ignited that fierce war, because of the race that was held between the two horsemen, a thrush, and a horse owned by Qais bin Zuhair al-Absi, and al-Ghubra, and a “female horse” was owned by the lamb of bin Badr al-Dhiyani, and through an agreement between the two parties, about a hundred camels were wagered. The “previous distance” is one hundred furlongs, and the period for the harder is “forty days”.
At the end of the period of “training horses for the race”, and the date of the race arrived, the riders were bound to the starting position. Bin Badr, the owner of Al-Ghabra, had prepared an ambush by some of the boys of his tribe behind some hills on the tracks of the race road and ordered them to dress in the face of the horse. The designated winner and secures the Ghobra.
The race began, and Al-Ghobra was at the forefront at first, but soon the paronychia snatched the leadership from it without effort. From the hideout and leaped in his face, he flinched, fell, and knocked down his knight, thus clearing the way for the stupid to win.
Then the felonious knight got up and rode on his horse again after making sure that he had not suffered any damage or any harm, and the flocker set out with his knight like a thunderbolt after the stupor and almost won it had it not been for the short distance remaining to the finish line that saved the Ghubra and deprived the prey to a certain victory despite the plot that was hatched for him during the race.
Al-Ghabra won, and its owner Badr demanded a bet and would almost have obtained it had it not been that the plot was exposed and the falsity of the race after the ambush boys regretted their heinous action and confessed to “carrying bin Badr” in carrying out the plot. Bin Badr gave the bet to Qais bin Zuhair al-Abssi, and he imposed the matter and gave the bet.
With the end of the adulterated race, the vows of doom began to circulate around the two tribes, and the clouds of war were burning in the sky of Abs and Zebian warning them of a terrible evil and a grinding war that did not remain and did not fade. That they blamed Hudhayfah for handing him the fait accompli and giving him a bet to Qais, and knocking him over his weakness towards him and embarrassing his chest.
The threads of the tragedy began to be woven again, so Hudhayfah sent to Qais asking him to return the bet, and this request was not expected to be rejected except by rejection. Qais only stabbed him with a spear near him and killed him.
Let the god of war appear in his ugly face again, but the wise men and the messengers of good from both sides intervened and ended the conflict by imposing blood money on Qais, who agreed to offer it to ward off evil and avoid the unfortunate occurrence between the two sister clans.
The acts of aggression were supposed to stop after the conflict had settled and the two sides agreed with it, but the evil spirit latent in Hudhaifa bin Badr and his brother “carried” did not create anything that would spoil the atmosphere among the cousins. After a few days of the killing of Ibn Hudhaifa, Hudhaifa incited some of his tribesmen On the assassination of Malik bin Zuhair, the brother of Qais, which was carried out.
After that, attempts were made to reconcile the two, and the heads of the tribes refused to reconcile, but Qais bin Zuhair was more tolerant than his colleagues, the heads of the tribes, and accepted the blood money for the killing of his brother Malik, and the heads of the tribes reluctantly agreed, but Hudhaif refused to give the blood money despite Qais’s tolerance, who wanted to return The water flowed into its streams among the cousins, and the disaster struck and the war lasted for four years. Antara Al-Absi said about Malik’s death: “God has an eye like the owner of Uqayrah Qum, if horsemen run … then they did not make a furious bond or they were not sent for a bet.”
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