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