التاريخ اليميني 19.20

19.20

وقد كان بغراجق قبل أن شمر للحرب أصاب كؤوسا [نام عن سورتها طرف الحجى، وكدرت عليه سريعة الرجاء، ل] يستيقظ بها أعين الطعن والضرب. فتضافر عليه ناران من كأس وبأس، حتى غفل بهما عن وثيقة التحزم، وذهل معهما عن بصيرة التحفظ والتحرز، فغرر بنفسه في اتباع خصمه اغترارا بخيال سكره، فلم يشعر إلا بطاهر ابن خلف قد كر عليه بضربة أقعصته في مكانه قتيلا. ونزل للوقت إليه من قطف علاوة أخدعيه ، واقتسمت الهزيمة كلا الفريقين، فلم يعرف [القاتل من المقتول، ولا] الغالب من المغلوب، ولا السالب من المسلوب، خلا ابن خلف، فإنه قفى آثار فله، بمن ردهم إلى محله.

Before girding himself for battle, Bughrājuq had taken cups [whose potency had lulled the eye of reason to sleep and quickly clouded his hope, so that] the eyes of thrust and blow might be roused by them. Two fires, of wine and of valour, combined against him, until through them he neglected the safeguard of readiness and forgot the insight of caution and vigilance; he risked himself in pursuing his foe, deluded by the fancy of his drunkenness, and was aware of nothing until Ṭāhir ibn Khalaf wheeled upon him with a blow that struck him dead on the spot. At once someone dismounted to him and cut off the head from between the neck-veins. Rout then overtook both sides alike, so that [the slayer could not be told from the slain, nor] the victor from the vanquished, nor the despoiler from the despoiled—except Ibn Khalaf, who followed in the tracks of his broken troops with those who brought them back to his quarters.