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Prophethood in Makkah

c. 615 CE

‘Utbah’s offer of wealth and power

Quraish send ‘Utbah bin Rabi’ah to offer the Prophet ﷺ riches, leadership or kingship if he will stop. He answers by reciting Surah Fussilat, and ‘Utbah returns telling Quraish he has never heard words like them.

As the book dates it: shortly after the conversions of Hamzah and ‘Umar

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