Life of Muhammad(SAW) Part 17: Boycott of Muslim & Banu Hasmities by the Quraysh & Pagan Makkan
When Abu Taleb denied to gave Qurash meet
Muhammad(SAW) & Quarysh gave them last offer to give them any amount of blood money in exchance of Muhammad(SAW) but still
Abu Talib refused to hand Muhammad(SAW).Quraysh came together & make treaty that no one marry or sell or socialize with
Banu Hashime.They locked the door & hung that on the door of kaba about that treaty.Buaid ibn amar wrote this treaty & Muhammad(SAW) make a treaty against him & his hand become parallyzed & he died.This Boycutt remained around 2-3 year.Hashmities and Muslims went to a open valley that was own by Abu Talib & lived their.Hashmities and Muslim We used to defecating how goat defecate due to starvation.They literary had to drink rain water & leaf & fruit from the tree
..Every few week someone use to sent food to them in secret in sympathy.Mutaim ibn Adi used to often sent food to Hashmities and Muslim.He was the most sympathizer towards Muslim & Muhammad(SAW) praised him & said if he said in battle of badr if Mutaim ibn Adi requested to release the war prisoner,I would release them all,Haqim ibn Hisam. Muhammad(SAW) keep on giving dawah during that time.And how the boycutt stopped.Well Muhammad(SAW) make a dua to sent for famine to oppressive
Makkah like the famine of
Yusuf(A:).The famine becoem so worst that makkan pagan ate with death circusses & dead meat.
Hisham ibn
Amar grand son throw Abul Muttalib & he is Muhammad(SAW) aunt son and another guy zuhait.He said what can we do to stop this boycutt.He invited all sympathizer
Abdul buqtabi,Mutaim ibn Adi.zuhait said for how long will we starve our own people & Abu Jahil said who are you to speak against us & then all the sympathizer get up and said we do not agree with you Abu Jahil.One day Muhammad(SAW) said to Abu Talib "Oh my uncle
Allah(
SWT) told me the treaty is eaten by tarmite & accept say in the name of Allah(SWT),Abu Talib marched with non-Muslim of Banu Hashme went to see this & find it right.Abu Taleb said "my nephew told me his lord told him that tarmite eaten alive the treaty accept in the name of Allah(SWT),if this is true,you should remove the boycutt or if you do not find it then I will hand ba to you." & Quraysh agree & when they open the cloth of the treaty they find out that he was right thus they removed the boycott.ccording to tradition, in 617 the leaders of
Makhzum and
Banu Abd-Shams, two important clans of Quraysh, declared a public boycott against the clan of
Banu Hashim, their commercial rival, in order to put pressure on the clan to withdraw its protection from
Muhammad.
Francis E. Peters, The Monotheists:
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in
Conflict and
Competition, p.96Francis E.
Peters,
Mecca: A
Literary History of the Muslim
Holy Land,
Princeton University Press,
1994,
ISBN 069103267X, p.54 Moojan Momen,
An Introduction to Shi'i Islam: The
History and Doctrines of Twelver Shiʻism,
Yale University Press, p.4Daniel W.
Brown,A New
Introduction to
Islam,
Blackwell Publishing, p.76, 2004, ISBN 0631216049
Overview
It became a source of great troubles for the Muslims, and they were forced to do
...1)The Quraysh noticed that many people had started to revert to Islam (especially after the reversion of
Omar and
Hamzah radiAllahu anhum) .
Abu Jahl and his crew got really furious they just could not tolerate arabs deserting the religion of their forefathers and especially Abu Talib defending his nephew(Muhammad ﷺ).
2) They did not give up, their faith in Allah did not allow them to give up and lose hope in Allah.
3) The boycott ended after some people felt the Quraysh were being extremely unjust so these people went to complain to Abu Jahl and after Abu Jahl refused their intervention at that moment Abu Talib arrived with the news of the paper of covenant to boycott was eaten up by mites!
4)The miracle was that the prophet ﷺ told them about mites eating up the documents
5) the man who informed prophet ﷺ was :
I DON'T KNOW :(
6) well what really drove people to stand against quraysh was the guilt they felt for boycotting their kinsmen because not all banu hashim and banu al muttalib were muslim.
7) the document was was stored in k'abah
8) No the Quraysh did not take this as an opportunity to open their minds and eyes and recognize the truth. but people did revert after this event happened..