Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 39319 — The harm Quraysh did to the Prophet

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that one day Quraysh gathered and said: "Look for the one among you most skilled in sorcery, soothsaying and composing poetry, and let that person go to this man who has split our community, broken up our affairs and found fault with our religion. Then let that person talk to him and see what answer he gives him." The people said: "We do not know of anyone other than Utbah bin Rabi'ah." The people said: "O Abu al-Walid, you are the one." So this Utbah came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! Are you better, or Abdullah?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) remained silent. Then he said: "Are you better, or Abd al-Muttalib?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) again remained silent. Then Utbah spoke: "If your claim is that these people are better than you, then surely they worshipped those gods whom you call defective. And if your claim is that you are better than they are, then speak, so that we may hear you. By Allah, we have not seen even a young goat more ill-omened for its people than you. You have split our community, broken up our affairs, found fault with our religion and disgraced us among the Arabs, so that word is going round among the Arabs that there is a sorcerer among Quraysh and that there is a soothsayer among Quraysh. By Allah! We are waiting for nothing but something like the scream of a pregnant woman for some of us to rise against others with swords until we all perish. O man! If you have a passion for virility, then choose whichever of the women of Quraysh you wish, and we will marry you to ten. And if you have some (financial) need, we will collect (so much) for you that you alone will become the richest man in all of Quraysh." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Have you finished speaking?" Utbah said: "Yes!" Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) recited: "In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful. Ha Mim. A revelation from the Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful," until he (peace and blessings be upon him) reached this verse: "But if they turn away, then say: I have warned you of a thunderbolt like the thunderbolt of Ad and Thamud." [Fussilat: 1-2, 13] Then Utbah said to him (peace and blessings be upon him): "Enough! Enough! Do you have anything other than this?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No!" Utbah returned to Quraysh. Quraysh asked: "What (news) do you bring back?" Utbah said: "I left out nothing that I thought you would have spoken to him about without speaking to him about it." Quraysh said: "Then did he answer you?" Utbah said: "Yes!" (Then) Utbah said: "By the One who set up the Ka'bah, I understood nothing of what he said, except this much (I did understand): that he warns you of the thunderbolt of Ad and Thamud." Quraysh said: "Perish! A man talks to you in Arabic and you do not know what he has said." Utbah said: "By Allah! I understood nothing of his speech except the thunderbolt."