It is narrated from Hazrat Abdullah bin Shaddad bin Al-Had that Hazrat Jibreel came to the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and covered him, then said to him: "Recite!" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What should I recite?" The narrator says: Jibreel again covered him and said: "Recite!" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What should I recite?" Jibreel said: { اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّکَ الَّذِی خَلَقَ } The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Hazrat Khadijah and informed her of what he had seen. She went to Waraqah bin Nawfal and mentioned this matter to him. Waraqah said to Khadijah: "Has your husband seen his companion in a waking state?" Khadijah said: "Yes!" Waraqah said: "Then your husband is a Prophet and soon he will be tested by his people."

Hazrat Abu Maysarah narrates that when the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to an open place, he (peace and blessings be upon him) would hear a caller who would call out to him: "O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)!" So when he (peace and blessings be upon him) heard this voice, he would begin to walk quickly. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Hazrat Khadijah and mentioned this matter to her and said: "O Khadijah! I fear that something has become confused in my mind. When I go out to an open place, I hear a caller, but I do not see anything, so I come running. Suddenly, that caller is with me and he is calling out to me." Hazrat Khadijah said: "Allah Almighty will not do such a thing to you. As much as I know you, you confirm the truth, fulfill trusts, and maintain ties of kinship. So Allah Almighty will not do such a thing to you." Hazrat Khadijah secretly mentioned this matter to Hazrat Abu Bakr. Abu Bakr was your (peace and blessings be upon him) friend in the time of ignorance. Hazrat Abu Bakr took your (peace and blessings be upon him) hand and brought you to Waraqah. Waraqah asked: "What is the matter?" You narrated all that Hazrat Khadijah had told you. Then you (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Waraqah and mentioned this incident. Waraqah asked: "Did you see anything?" You (peace and blessings be upon him) replied: "No! But when I go outside, I hear a voice and I do not see anything, so I come running. Suddenly, that caller is with me." Waraqah said: "Do not do that. So when you hear the voice, stop until you hear what it says to you." Then when you (peace and blessings be upon him) went out to an open place, you (peace and blessings be upon him) heard a voice: "O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)!" You (peace and blessings be upon him) replied: "I am present!" The caller said: "Say: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is the servant and Messenger of Allah." Then the caller recited to you (peace and blessings be upon him) { الْحَمْدُ لِلَّہِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِینَ، الرَّحْمَن الرَّحِیمِ، مَالِکِ یَوْمِ الدِّینِ } up to the end of Surah Al-Fatiha. Then you (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Waraqah and mentioned this matter to him, so Waraqah said: "Glad tidings to you, then glad tidings to you, then glad tidings to you. I bear witness that you are indeed that Messenger whose glad tidings Isa gave. (He said:) A Messenger will come after me whose name will be Ahmad. So I bear witness that you are Ahmad, and I bear witness that you are Muhammad, and I bear witness that you are the Messenger of Allah. And it is near that you will be commanded to fight (jihad), and if you are commanded to fight and I am alive, then surely, surely I will fight alongside you (peace and blessings be upon him)." Then (after this) Waraqah passed away. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I saw this Christian scholar in Paradise wearing green garments."

Hasan narrates that Allah Almighty once sent the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to admit a man into Paradise. The narrator says: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by one of the places of worship of the Jews, so he went to them while they were reading their book. When they saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), they closed the book and went outside. In one corner of the place of worship, there was a man lying near death. The narrator says: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to that man, and the man said: These people (the Jews) were prevented from reading because you came to them, and they were reading the attributes of a Prophet, which are yours. Then the man went to the book, opened it, and read, then said: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is the Messenger of Allah. Then the soul of that man was taken. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Take care of your brother." The narrator says: Then the Companions washed him, shrouded him, applied perfume, and the funeral prayer was performed over him.

It is narrated from Hazrat Anas that Hazrat Jibreel came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, while he, peace and blessings be upon him, was playing with children. Jibreel caught him, peace and blessings be upon him, and laid him down on the ground, then split open his blessed chest and took out his blessed heart. Then he took out a clot from the blessed heart and said: This is the portion of Satan from you (from your heart). Then Jibreel washed the heart in a golden basin with Zamzam water, then Jibreel sewed up his, peace and blessings be upon him, heart and put it back in its place. The narrator says: The children ran to his, peace and blessings be upon him, mother and wet nurse and said: Muhammad has been killed. The narrator says: People came to him, peace and blessings be upon him, and his color had changed. Hazrat Anas says that I saw the marks of the needle on his, peace and blessings be upon him, chest.

Hazrat Jabir says that in the beginning, the revelation to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ceased, and solitude became beloved to him. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would seclude himself in Hira. During this time, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was in front of Hira, and said: When I heard a faint sound from above me, I raised my head. Suddenly, I saw something on a chair. When I saw it, I became alarmed and looked towards the ground, and I hurriedly came to my family and said, "Cover me with a blanket, cover me with a blanket." Then Gabriel came to me and began to say: { یَا أَیُّہَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ، قُمْ فَأَنْذِرْ، وَرَبَّک فَکَبِّرْ، وَثِیَابَک فَطَہِّرْ، وَالرُّجْزَ فَاہْجُرْ }.

It is narrated from Hazrat Ikrimah regarding the saying of Allah { یَا أَیُّہَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ }, he said: This matter has been entrusted to you, so stand up with it. And regarding the saying of Allah { یَا أَیُّہَا الْمُزَّمِّلُ }, it is narrated that this matter has been wrapped around you, so stand up with it.

It is narrated from Hazrat Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that one day the Quraysh gathered together and said: Look for the one among you who is the greatest magician, soothsayer, and poet, and then let that person go to the man who has caused division in our group, has shattered our affairs, and has found fault in our religion. Then let that person speak with him and see what answer he gives. The people said: I do not know of anyone except Utbah bin Rabi’ah. The people said: O Abu al-Walid, it is you. So Utbah came to the service of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! Are you better or Abdullah? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) remained silent. Then he said: Are you better or Abdul Muttalib? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) again remained silent. Then Utbah said: If you think that these people are better than you, then indeed they worshipped those deities whom you call defective. And if you think that you are better than them, then speak so that we may listen to you. By God, we have not seen in our people a more ill-omened kid (even) than you. You have caused division in our unity, shattered our affairs, found fault in our religion, and disgraced us among the Arabs, so much so that this matter is circulating among the Arabs that there is a magician among the Quraysh and a soothsayer among the Quraysh. By God! We are waiting for nothing but something like the cry of a pregnant woman, so that some of us may stand against others with swords until we are all destroyed. O man! If you desire manliness, then choose whichever woman you wish from among the women of Quraysh. We will marry you to ten women. And if you have any (financial) need, we will gather (so much) for you that you alone will be the richest among all the Quraysh. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Have you finished speaking? Utbah said: Yes! Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) recited: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem { حم تَنْزِیلٌ مِنَ الرَّحْمَن الرَّحِیمِ } until he (peace and blessings be upon him) reached this verse: { فَإِنْ أَعْرَضُوا فَقُلْ أَنْذَرْتُکُمْ صَاعِقَۃً مِثْلَ صَاعِقَۃِ عَادٍ وَثَمُودَ } Then Utbah said to him (peace and blessings be upon him): Enough, enough. Do you have anything besides this? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: No! Utbah returned to the Quraysh. The Quraysh asked: What news do you bring? Utbah said: I have not left out anything that I thought you would want me to discuss with him, except that I have discussed it with him. The Quraysh said: Then did he answer you? Utbah said: Yes! (Then) Utbah said: By the One who established the Ka’bah, I did not understand anything from what he said except that he warns you of the thunderbolt of ‘Ad and Thamud. The Quraysh said: May you perish! A man speaks to you in Arabic and you do not know what he said? Utbah said: By God! I understood nothing from his speech except the thunderbolt.

It is narrated from Hazrat Amr bin Al-Aas that I never saw the Quraysh intending anything against the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) except one day when they were plotting against him and were sitting in the shade of the Ka'bah. And the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was performing prayer at the Maqam Ibrahim. Then Uqbah bin Abi Mu'it stood up and put his sheet around the neck of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and pulled him until the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was about to fall on his knees. The people raised a commotion, and people thought that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had been killed. Hazrat Abu Bakr advanced forcefully until he grabbed the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) from behind his armpits and began to say: { أَتَقْتُلُونَ رَجُلاً أَنْ یَقُولَ رَبِّی اللَّہُ } Then the people moved away from the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up and performed the prayer. When he had finished the prayer, he passed by the Quraysh while they were sitting in the shade of the Ka'bah. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: O group of Quraysh! Beware! By the One in whose hand is the soul of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), I have not been sent to you except with slaughter. And he pointed to his throat with his hand. The narrator says: Abu Jahl said to him: O Muhammad! You were not ignorant. The narrator says: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: You are also among them.

It is narrated from Hazrat Ibn Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that Abu Jahl passed by and said, "Did I not forbid you?" So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) rebuked him. Abu Jahl said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "O Muhammad! Why do you rebuke me? By God, you know that among the Quraysh there is no one with a greater assembly than mine." The narrator says: Hazrat Jibreel said: { فَلْیَدْعُ نَادِیَہُ } The narrator says that Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "By God, if Abu Jahl had called his assembly (companions), the angels of punishment, Zabaniyah, would have seized him."

Narrated from Hazrat Abdullah bin Masood (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was praying in the shade of the Kaaba. The narrator says: Abu Jahl and the people of Quraysh said: At that time, a camel had been slaughtered in some neighborhood of Mecca. The narrator says: They sent someone, so he brought the camel's entrails and they threw it upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The narrator says: Hazrat Fatimah came and removed it from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The narrator says: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) repeated this three times: O Allah! Seize the Quraysh, O Allah! Seize the Quraysh, O Allah! Seize the Quraysh. Abu Jahl bin Hisham, Utbah bin Rabi'ah, Shaybah bin Rabi'ah, Walid bin Utbah, Umayyah bin Khalaf, and Uqbah bin Abi Mu'it. The narrator says: Hazrat Abdullah bin Masood (may Allah be pleased with him) says that I saw all of them killed in the well of Badr. Abu Ishaq says that I have forgotten the name of the seventh man.