peace and security. News reached them that Quraysh had embraced Islam, but this report was false, so they returned to Mecca. When they learned that the situation was worse than before, some of them turned back. A group entered Mecca and suffered severe persecution at the hands of Quraysh. Among those who entered was Abd Allāh ibn Mas‘ūd.
He then permitted them to migrate to Abyssinia a second time. Eighty-three (1) men emigrated, if ‘Ammār was among them—for his participation is uncertain—along with eighteen women. They lived under the Negus in the best of circumstances. When Quraysh learned of this, they sent ‘Amr ibn al-‘Ās (2) with a group to plot against them before the Negus, but Allah turned their plot back against them.
Their persecution of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, intensified. They confined him and his family to the ravine of Abū Tālib for three years, or, according to another account, two years. He emerged from the confinement at the age of forty-nine, or, according to another account, forty-eight.
A few months later, his uncle Abū Tālib died at the age of eighty-seven.
Abd Allāh ibn ‘Abbās was born in the ravine (3).