Boycott of Banu Hashim: Difference between revisions

The boycott lasted for three years and Muslims were suffering from the difficulties. Polytheists of Mecca noticed that their children's suffering but they didn't sympathize with them. After three years under blockade, the boycott ended in [[4 BH]] (ten years after [[Bi'tha]]). 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 Abu Talib.

The boycott of [[Banu Hashim]] was the most important report on the Shi'b Abi Talib. On the [[Muharram 1|first of Muharram]] in the seventh year after [[Bi'tha]]/[[Septermber 22]], 616,<ref>Miqrizī, ''Imtāʿ al-asmāʿ'', vol. 1, p. 44.</ref> a number of clans of [[Quraysh]] declared economic and social boycott against [[Prophet Muhammad (s)]], [[Banu Hashim]] and Banu 'Abd al-Muttalib except for [[Abu Lahab]] and his children<ref>Miqrizī, ''Imtāʿ al-asmāʿ'', vol. 1, p. 44.</ref> and they were forced to live with massive difficulties for three years.<ref>Ibn Saʿd, ''al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā'', vol. 1, p. 163.</ref>