Volume 1, Book 4, Number 241:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud:
Once the Prophet was offering prayers at the Ka’ba. Abu Jahl was sitting with some of his compan –
ions. One of them said to the others, “Who amongst you will bring the abdominal contents (intest –
ines, etc.) of a camel of Bani so and so and put it on the back of Muhammad, when he prostrates?”
The most unfortunate of them got up and brought it. He waited till the Prophet prostrated and then
placed it on his back between his shoulders. I was watching but could not do any thing. I wish I had
some people with me to hold out against them. They started laughing and falling on one another. Al –
lah’s Apostle was in prostration and he did not lift his head up till Fatima (Prophet’s daughter) came
and threw that (camel’s abdominal contents) away from his back. He raised his head and said thrice,
“O Allah! Punish Quraish.” So it was hard for Abu Jahl and his companions when the Prophet in –
voked Allah against them as they had a conviction that the prayers and invocations were accepted in
this city (Mecca). The Prophet said, “O Allah! Punish Abu Jahl, ‘Utba bin Rabi’a, Shaiba bin Rabi’a, Al-
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Walid bin ‘Utba, Umaiya bin Khalaf, and ‘Uqba bin Al Mu’it (and he mentioned the seventh whose
name I cannot recall). By Allah in Whose Hands my life is, I saw the dead bodies of those persons
who were counted by Allah’s Apostle in the Qalib (one of the wells) of Badr.