Hadith 117

Masjid, and Quraysh were in their assembly, seated by the Kabah. When they saw him-as to have come and in his-as hand was the hand of the Prophet-saww, they said, ‘This Abu Talib-asws has come to you with Muhammad-saww. There is a concern for him-as’. When he-as paused at them, and the anger was recognises in his-as face, he-as said to his-as slaves, ‘Bring out what is in your hands! ’ Each man from them brought out what was in his hand. When they saw the knives, they said, ‘What is this, O Abu Talib-asws? ’ Are you not seeing that I-as had not seen him-saww since two days, so I-as feared that you might have plotted against him-asws with some of your matters, so I-as had instructed them to be seated to where you see, and I-as said to them: ‘If I-as come and Muhammad-saww is not with me-as, then let each one of you strike his companion who is to his side, and not to seek my-as permission regarding it, and even if he was a Hashimite’’. They said, ‘And would they have done it? ’ He-as said: ‘Yes, by the Lord-azwj of this’ – and he-as gestured towards the Kabah. Mut’im Bin Nowfal son of Abd Manaf-as said to him-as, and he was from his-as opponents, ‘You-as had almost come upon (annihilation) of your-as people’. He-as said: ‘It (may be) that’. And he-as went with him-saww, and he-as was eulogising: ‘Go my-as son-saww for there will be no disadvantage upon you-saww. Go, and let the eyes be delighted by that from you-saww. By Allah-azwj! They will never reach to you-saww, (even) with all of them until I-as lied down in the soil, buried. And you-saww called me-as, and I-as knew you-saww are an adviser, and you-saww have spoken the truth, and before, you-as were trustworthy, and you-as have mentioned a religion, it is inevitable that it is from the best of religion, the righteous religion’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Quraysh returned to Abu Talib-asws with the disapproval and the sympathy, and he-saww was neither cared with them nor turned to them’’. [191]