Quote · 10th year of the dawah, recalled years later
I remember when I was a young child, a young man came and spoke to my father, telling him to embrace the worship of Allah, and to leave idolatry, and to accept him into his tribe. I also saw an elderly man standing behind him, wearing a Yemeni cloak and having two ponytails.
A later recollection by Rabi'ah ibn Abbad of a scene he witnessed as a child at Mina.
Saying
O people, this is a person who is calling you to give up your gods al-Lat and al-Uzza and the way of your forefathers, so do not give up that way, and stay with the way of your forefathers.
withMuhammad ﷺ
I asked my father who these two men were.
The first man is the man claiming to be a prophet, and the elderly man is his uncle Abd al-Uzza, Abu Lahab.
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