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companions entered its courtyard. Zuhair circumambulated Ka’bah seven times, then
turned to the gathering and said, "O people of Mecca, should we eat and wear clothes
while the sons of Hashim suffer on account of their being unable to trade? By Allah, I will
not sit until this terrible pact is torn up!"

Abu Jahl was quick to rise up in protest saying, "It will not be torn up, you are a liar!"
Zam’ah now spoke up, "It is you who are the liar. We were not in favor of it even when it
was written." At that point Abu Bakhtari interjected, "We are not in favor of its contents,
and neither do we hold with it!" Both Mut’im and Hisham supported their companions
whereupon Abu Jahl accused them all of conspiracy.

Abu Talib who had been sitting nearby reminded them that the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi
wa sallam) had said regarding the document that had been hung inside the Ka’bah, that

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nothing of it would remain except the Name of Allah, it would be destroyed by termites.
Mut’im went into the Ka’bah to fetch the document and as the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi