Ali Ibn Abi Talib - Volume 1 of 2

60 'Ali ibn Abi TZlib in Makkah
We will not give him up until we lie dead around him,
And be unmindful of our wives and children;
Until a people in anns rise and fight you,
As camels carrying water rise under empty water-skins.
Abu T2ib continued to support his nephew and managed to
penetrate the society of Quraysh with his great poetry that moved the
people deeply. When Islam became deeply entrenched in the hearts
of the members of some tribes, Quraysh came together and agreed
among themselves to carry out a boycott against Banu HLhim and
Banu Mugalih, according to which they would not intermany with
them or trade with them, either buying or selling. They wrote a
document, hung it up inside the Ka'bah and took pledges to that
effect. Banu Hishim and Bann Muttalib went to Abu T2ib and
stayed with him in his mountain pass.43 This occurred in the month of
M$arram, seven years after the p~ophethood began, and Banu
Hkhim remained in this situation for nearly three years, during
which nothing reached them except in secret. Finally, the worms ate
the document, and the Prophet (@J told Abu Taib about it, and about
the tearing up of the document and the cancellation of its contents.44
Abu T%b died in the middle of the month of Shaww2, in the tenth
year of prophethood, when he was over eighty years old, but he had
not become ~ uslim.~~ This was the same year in which Khadeejah
(%), the wife of the Prophet (@J, also died, and calamities befell the
Messenger of Allah (B) one after another. The year was known as
the Year of h or row.^^
1.3.5. The mother of Amir al-Mu'mineen
'Ali ibn Abi TSlib (&)
'Ali's mother was the noble female Companion Fitimah hint
Asad ibn Hhhim ibn 'Abd Manif ibn Qusayy al-~hhimi~~ah.~'
She was the first HLhimi woman to give birth to a Hishimi son.48