with a violent tremor.

Musa ibn ʿUqba, completing his report, relates:

Whenever the people settled down for the night, Abu Talib would have the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, lie on his own bed so that anyone intent on plotting against him or assassinating him would see him there. Once the others had fallen asleep, he would order one of his sons, brothers, or paternal cousins to take the Prophet’s place, and he would tell the Messenger of Allah to go and sleep on one of their beds instead.

When three full years had passed, certain men from the descendants of ʿAbd Manāf and Quṣayy—as well as other Qurayshites whose mothers were from Banū Hāshim—reproached one another. They came to realize that they had severed family ties and shown contempt for what is right. That very night they resolved unanimously to annul the treacherous pact to which they had bound themselves and to disavow it.

Allah, mighty and majestic, then sent a termite against the scroll that contained their scheme against the Messenger of Allah, and it devoured every word of pledge and covenant that was written therein.

It is also said that the document had been hung from the ceiling of the House, and it left