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Shi'b Abi Talib is a valley between the [[Mount Abu Qubays]] and mount Khandama in [[Mecca]]. [[Prophet Muhammad (s)]], [[Banu Hashim]] and other Muslims took shelter in a valley due to prosecutions of hypocrites of Mecca in 7 (A.H.); they declared economic and social boycott on Muslims for three years. In his letter to Mu'awiya, [['Ali b. Abi Talib (a)]] mentioned the enmity of [[Quraysh]] and their three-year-boycott against Muslims in the Valley of Abi Talib.

The valley was owned by [['Abd al-Muttalib]] and the house of [[Lady Khadija (s)]] was located there. She was living with [[Prophet Muhammad (s)]], and their children were born in that house as well. The valley is in the east of [[Ka'ba]], next to the place where Sa'y is performed. Because the valley is located close to Ka'ba, it was regarded as the best place in [[Mecca]]. As [[Prophet Muhammad (s)]] was also born in that region, it is also called as Shi'b Mawlud; [[Lady Fatima (s)]] was born in this region as well. Today only a small part of this region called Sawq al-Layl is left and the other parts were added to [[Masjid al-Haram]] in different expansions of mosque.