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...en the pick struck the ancient well and water surged forth, Quraysh immediately disputed his right to sole custodianship. The a...
...Banu Zuhra clan united two of the finest lineages in all of Quraysh, both tracing their ancestry through the line of Ibrahim an...
...ha to negotiate the return of two hundred camels taken from Quraysh's herds. Abraha expressed surprise that Abd al-Muttalib spo...
...s, having lived a life of extraordinary influence: chief of Quraysh, custodian of the Ka'bah, discoverer of Zamzam, the man who...
...re central to Mecca's economy and to the education of young Qurayshi men: the journey through the Hejaz and Jordanian highlands...
...ere a series of conflicts between the Hawazin tribe and the Quraysh-Kinanah alliance, erupting in approximately 590 CE when the...
...Jud'an al-Taymi in Mecca, involving noble men from multiple Qurayshi clans including Banu Hashim, Banu Muttalib, Banu Asad, Ban...
... the Ka'bah in Mecca was damaged by flood and fire, and the Quraysh undertook a complete reconstruction. They organized the wor...
...akr ibn Abi Quhafa was among the most respected free men of Quraysh, the Prophet's close friend, who accepted without hesitatio...
...ontext of social pressure and emerging persecution from the Quraysh. The house became a sanctuary where the early community cou...
...itional alarm cry that summoned people to an emergency. The Quraysh gathered, wondering what emergency had brought him there. ...
... the Prophet ﷺ began preaching Islam publicly in Mecca, the Quraysh leadership moved swiftly against the early Muslim community...
...o traveled to Mecca during the pilgrimage season, where the Quraysh intercept him with a warning: Muhammad ﷺ was a dangerous sp...
...'s conversion immediately altered the balance in Mecca. The Quraysh understood that Muslims now had, in Hamza, a protector who ...
...ting refuge without demanding anything in return. When the Quraysh learned of the migration, they sent Amr ibn al-As and Abdul...
... imposing, intellectually confident, deeply invested in the Qurayshi social order that Muhammad ﷺ was dismantling with every ne...
...Red Sea in secret. When a false rumor reached them that the Quraysh had converted to Islam, many returned — only to find the si...
...idual persecution failed to break the Muslim community, the Quraysh escalated to collective punishment at the clan level. In ap...
... consequential non-Muslim protector in Islamic history. The Quraysh could not act against the Prophet ﷺ so long as Abu Talib li...
...d the domestic anchor of the Prophet's ﷺ life in Mecca. The Quraysh tested the new situation immediately: a man threw dirt on t...
...or me.' The garden's owners — Utbah and Shaybah, non-Muslim Qurayshis — watched and sent their Christian slave Addas with a pla...
...Prophet ﷺ entered Mecca, circumambulated the Kaaba, and the Quraysh who saw him asked Mut'im whether he had followed Muhammad o...
...rophet ﷺ used this gathering to reach people beyond Mecca's Qurayshi society. Abu Lahab followed him from tribe to tribe warni...
...ant' (abdihi) denoting body and soul, and the fact that the Quraysh's reaction the next morning was disbelief at a physical cla...
...clothes and fine perfume, from the Abd al-Dar branch of the Quraysh. He had accepted Islam in the early secret period, been imp...
...tment to the oath. The pledge was made in secrecy, but the Quraysh learned of it the next day. The Yathribi leaders who had no...
...ng Mecca for Yathrib after the Second Pledge of Aqabah, the Quraysh convened an emergency council at Dar al-Nadwa to determine ...
...ute — deliberately longer than the direct road to avoid the Quraysh search parties who had placed a hundred-camel reward on the...
... approximately two weeks via the coastal route to avoid the Quraysh search parties. He stopped at the home of Kulthum ibn Hidm ...
...ctive defense of Medina. All parties pledged not to aid the Quraysh or external enemies. Individual wrongdoers were personally ...
...had owned nothing and whose body bore the marks of what the Quraysh had done to him for his faith now carried the voice that ca...
...e victory had been confirmed by divine intervention and the Quraysh understood that the balance of power in Arabia had shifted ...
...y of the covenant and the tribe's actual alignment with the Qurayshi opposition. The precipitating incident involved a Muslim ...
...he second major battle between the Muslim community and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Quraysh came seeking revenge for Badr, arrivi...
...ty. He said he would take retaliatory mutilation of seventy Qurayshi dead, but the revelation of Surah al-Nahl (16:126) descend...
...d fought at Uhud to march out in pursuit of the withdrawing Qurayshi army. The purpose was not primarily military but psycholog...
...m teachers into their territory for capture and sale to the Quraysh. When the ambush was revealed, the Banu Lihyan called out ...
...alition of approximately 10,000 fighters assembled from the Quraysh, the Ghatafan, and allied tribes, organized largely by Banu...
...ut. Their chief Ka'b ibn Asad had held firm against earlier Qurayshi overtures but was persuaded by Huyayy ibn Akhtab — a Banu ...
...ould preserve his life long enough to see the conflict with Quraysh resolved and to be present for the judgment of Banu Qurayza...
...ement of the Medinan period — a ten-year ceasefire with the Quraysh that appeared to the companions as humiliation but proved, ...
...s delayed and a rumor spread that he had been killed by the Quraysh, the Prophet ﷺ called the companions to pledge. He sat unde...
...ous address to the Negus's court defending Islam before the Qurayshi delegation, arrived with the returning emigrants. The Prop...
...to turn back from Mecca. The treaty had stipulated that the Quraysh would vacate the city for three days the following year and...
...t turned a Muslim victory into near-catastrophe. He led the Qurayshi cavalry around the mountain, struck the Muslim rear, and b...
...ished a ten-year truce between the Muslim community and the Quraysh, with a clause protecting the security of each party's alli...
...e received a general amnesty. The immediate trigger was the Quraysh's violation of the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah by supporting an a...
...fyan received 100 camels, his sons similarly, other leading Qurayshi and tribal converts generously. The Ansar received nothing...
...Arabia, the calculus for every remaining tribe changed. The Quraysh had accepted Islam en masse. The Hawazin-Thaqif confederacy...
...first Muslim emigrants and refused to extradite them to the Quraysh — died in Rajab 9 AH. The news reached the Prophet ﷺ in Med...