Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 218
CHAPTER 10 The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa 's Sublime Fidelity 218 Muhammad sa a liar. And that he was true to what he professed and would adhere to it. He told the Quraish that he could not help them at all. 4 Ab u Ta lib's second testimony belongs to the period of She‘b-e-Ab i Ta lib. In the third year of siege, the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa on receiving information from God, told Ab u Ta lib that the written statement of boycott from Ban u H a shim which they had hung in the Ka‘bah, had been eaten up by termites except the word ‘All a h’. Ab u Ta lib had such strong faith in the words of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa , he told his brethren that by God, Muhammad had never ever told a lie and whatever he was saying was true. So they together went to the chiefs of Quraish. He told them in clear words that his nephew had told him that the termites had eaten the parchment on which the agreement was written and asked them to go and check as his nephew had never told a lie. He said, "If this turns out to be true, then you would have to change your decision regarding the boycott. If he is proved wrong, then I will turn him into your hands and you can do whatever you like with him. You can kill him or spare his life. It is your choice". The Quraish agreed to this proposal. When they checked the agreement, they found out that exactly in accordance with the utterance of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa , the whole parchment