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240. Narrated 'Abdullāh bin Mas'ūd رضي الله عنه: Once the Prophet ﷺ was offering Ṣalāt (prayers) near the Ka'bah. Abū Jahl was sitting with some of his companions. Some of them said to the others, "Who amongst you will bring the abdominal contents (intestines, etc.) of a camel of Banī so-and-so and put it on the back of Muḥammad, when he prostrates?" The most wretched of them (Uqba bin Abī Mu'āit) got up and brought it. He waited till the Prophet ﷺ prostrated and then placed it on his back between his shoulders. I was watching but could not do anything. I wished I had some people with me to hold out against them. They started laughing and falling on one another. Allāh's Messenger ﷺ was in prostration and he did not lift his head up till Fāṭima رضي الله عنها (Prophet's daughter) came and threw that (camel's abdominal contents) away from his back. He ﷺ raised his head and said thrice, "O Allāh! Destroy the (infidels of) Quraish." So, it was hard for Abū Jahl and his companions when the Prophet ﷺ invoked Allāh against them as they had a conviction that the prayers and invocations were accepted in this city (Makkah). The Prophet ﷺ said, "O Allāh! Destroy Abū Jahl, 'Uṭba bin Rabī'a, Shaiba bin Rabī'a, Al-Walīd bin 'Uṭba, Umaiyya bin Khalaf, and 'Uqba bin Abī Mu'āit (and he mentioned the seventh whose name I cannot recall). By Allāh in Whose Hands my life is, I saw the dead bodies of those persons who were counted by Allāh's Messenger ﷺ in the Qalīb (one of the wells) of Badr.
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