Do not think that, on the evening the caravan departed, you had become so slight in my eyes that my affection would ever fade. (1)

He also quoted other verses besides these.

It has been said that the pact was called the Pact of al-Fuḍūl because it resembled an earlier alliance concluded by the tribe of Jurhum for the same purpose—supporting the wronged against his oppressor. The call to that pact was issued by three of their nobles, each of whom was named Faḍl: Faḍl ibn Faḍālah, Faḍl ibn Wadiʿah, and Faḍl ibn al-Ḥārith. (2) This is the opinion of Ibn Qutaybah.

Others have given the names as Faḍl ibn Sharāʿah, Faḍl ibn Biḍāʿah, and Faḍl ibn Quḍāʿah. (3) Al-Suhaylī—may Allah have mercy on him—also transmitted this view.

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār (4) said: Several clans of Quraysh resolved to form a pact and gathered (5) in the house of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Judʿān, owing to his nobility and advanced age. Those who entered into the covenant there were Banū Hāshim, Banū al-Muṭṭalib (6), Banū Asad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā, Zuhrah ibn Kilāb, and Taym ibn Murrah. They pledged and covenanted that they would never find in Mecca any oppressed person—whether one of its own people or anyone else who entered the city—without standing by him, and that they would act against the oppressor until Allah restored the victim’s right. Quraysh therefore named this treaty the Pact of al-Fuḍūl.

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq (10) also related: Muḥammad ibn Zayd ibn al-Muhājir ibn Qunfudh al-Taymī told me that he heard Ṭalḥah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAwf al-Zuhrī say: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “I witnessed, in the house of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Judʿān, a pact for which I would not trade red camels; and were I summoned to it in Islam, I would answer.”

Ibn Isḥāq further said: Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Usāmah ibn al-Hād al-Laythī reported that Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taymī (11) told him that there arose a dispute between al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib and al-Walīd ibn ʿUtbah ibn Abī Sufyān—who at that time was governor of Madinah, appointed by his uncle Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān—over some property they shared at Dhū al-Marwah (12). Al-Walīd, relying on his authority, acted unjustly toward al-Ḥusayn, so al-Ḥusayn said to him, “I swear by Allah, you will grant me justice …”