—together with Zuhayr ibn Abī Umayyah ibn al-Mughīrah, Zamʿah ibn al-Aswad, and Hishām ibn ʿAmr—who actually had the parchment in his keeping, for he hailed from Banū ʿĀmir ibn Luʾayy—along with a number of their nobles and leading men, saying: “We repudiate everything that is written in this document.”

Abū Jahl retorted, “This affair has been hatched under cover of night.”

Abū Ṭālib then composed poetry on the subject of their scroll—extolling the men who had disowned it and annulled the pledge it contained, and praising the Negus as well.

Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah relates: “When Allah ruined the parchment that embodied their stratagem, the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—came out…"