Abu JahlDramatizedExact wording is the lecture's retelling of the confrontation; the underlying incident and the Qur'anic response in Surah al-An'am are attested.To Muhammad ﷺ
Saying · c. 615 CE (Meccan period)
O Muhammad ﷺ, how is it possible that if you are upon the Truth, these people are following it before us? If you want us to accept your religion, you have to get rid of them.
Said by Abu Jahl after Ammar, Suhayb, and Bilal passed by while Quraysh leaders were talking with the Prophet ﷺ and seemed to be growing sympathetic to Islam.