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Quraysh then reached a unanimous decision to wage war against the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. After Abū Sufyān and the owners of the caravan had taken their stand, Quraysh mustered its allied clans (the Aḥābish)(1), along with those who obeyed them from the tribes of Kinānah and the people of Tihāmah.

At that time Abū ʿAzzah ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Jumahī was among them. On the Day of Badr the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had released him without ransom, for he was poor and burdened with dependants. Safwān ibn Umayyah said to him, “Abū ʿAzzah, you are a poet; help us with your tongue and come out with us.” He replied, “Muhammad showed me favor, and I do not wish to fight against him.” Safwān insisted: “Indeed you will. Lend us your own person. I swear by Allah, if you return I shall look after you, and if you are killed I will place your daughters with mine—they will share whatever befalls us, hardship or ease.”

So Abū ʿAzzah set off through Tihāmah, rallying the Banū Kinānah and reciting:

O sons of ʿAbd Manāt, stalwart and strong!
You are defenders; your father defended long.
Let not your aid be delayed another year;
Do not abandon me—abandonment is not fair.

Musāfiʿ ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Wahb ibn Ḥudhāfah ibn Jumah also went to the Banū Mālik ibn Kinānah, urging them on and chanting:

O Mālik, O Mālik, heir of noble line!
I call on kin and every bond benign—
On those of blood and those without that tie,
On the pact sworn in the Sacred City high,
By the Ḥaṭīm of the Kaʿbah, sanctified.

Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim summoned an Abyssinian slave named Wahshī, famed for casting his spear with the deadly aim of the Abyssinians, scarcely ever missing. He said to him, “Set out with the people; if you kill Ḥamzah, the uncle of Muhammad, in revenge for my uncle Ṭuʿaymah ibn ʿAdī, you shall be free.”

Thus Quraysh marched out with all its force, weapons, seriousness, and allied clans, together with followers from Banū Kinānah and the folk of Tihāmah. They even brought their women, hoping this would stiffen their resolve and keep them from fleeing. Abū Sufyān Ṣakhr ibn Ḥarb led the host, accompanied by his wife Hind bint ʿUtbah ibn Rabīʿah. ʿIkrimah ibn Abī Jahl came with his cousin-wife Umm Ḥakīm bint al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām ibn al-Mughīrah; his uncle al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām came with his wife Fāṭimah bint al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīrah; Safwān ibn Umayyah brought Barzah bint Masʿūd ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUmayr al-Thaqafiyyah; and ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ brought Rayṭah bint Munabbih ibn al-Ḥajjāj, the mother of his son ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr. Others too were said to have set out with their wives.

Whenever Wahshī passed by Hind bint ʿUtbah—or she passed by him—she would say, “Onward, Abā Dasmah! Avenge and be avenged!”—urging him to kill Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib.

They advanced until they encamped at ʿAynayn, a mountain in the lowland of al-Sabkhah at Qanāh, on the edge of the valley opposite Madinah. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and the Muslims heard of their arrival, he said to them:

“By Allah, I have seen a vision of good: I saw cattle being slaughtered; I noticed a notch in the tip of my sword; and I saw that I had placed my hand inside a sturdy coat of mail—which I interpreted as Madinah.”

This ḥadīth is related by al-Bukhārī and Muslim (2) from Abū Kurayb, from Abū Usāmah, from Burayd ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī