Saheeh Seerah Al Albaanee English

insulted him, and which I recognized it from his face. When he passed by them the
third time, they insulted him again. At that he ﷺ said: ❝Listen to me, O Quraish! By
the One in Whose hand is the soul of Muḥammad, I am bringing you slaughter.❞ The
people were so shocked that each man among them froze, as if there was a bird on his
head. Then those who were previously the most harsh to him began addressing him
with words of kindness, saying: ‘Why don’t you be sensible and leave us, O Abul-
Qaasim? By Allaah, you have never acted foolishly.’ So he ﷺ left them. The next day,
they met together in al-Ḥijr, and I was with them. They said to one another:
‘(Yesterday) you mentioned what you did to him, and what he did to you, until he
brought out something which you didn’t like, so you left him alone.’ While they were
engaged in their discussion, the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ appeared and they rushed
towards him as one man and surrounded him, saying to him: ‘Aren’t you the one who
said such-and-such?’ – referring to what they had heard about his criticism of their
gods and their religion. The Messenger of Allaah ﷺ said: ❝“Yes, I am the one who
said that.❞ I saw one of them grab the neck of his garment (and tried to strangle him).
Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq رضيُاهللُعنه got up to defend him, weeping and said:
‏﴿أَتَق ت ل ونَُُرَج ال ُُ أَن ‏ُيَق ولَُُرَبَُُِّاللَّهُُوَقَد ‏ُُجَاءَك مُبِال بَيِّنَاتُُِمِنُرَّبِّك م ُ﴾
{Would you kill a man because he says: ‘My Lord is Allaah’, and he has come to you
with clear signs (proofs) from your Lord?} [Surah Ghaafir (40): 28]”
Then they left him alone. That was the worst incident of aggression that I saw on the
part of Quraish. 207
207 Musnad Aḥmad (7036) and graded as “Ḥasan” by Shaikh al-Albaanee
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