So the people deputised...

So the people deputised, and some of them took light (provisions) and some of them took heavy, and they did not think that Rasool-Allah -saww had cast a plan, nor a war. So they went out not intending only Abu Sufyan and the riders, and they did not see anything except for the war booty for themselves.

فلما سمع أبو سفيان بمسير النبي (صلى الله عليه وآله) استأجر ضمضم بن عمرو الغفاري فبعثه إلى مكة وأمره أن يأتي قريشا فيستنفرهم ويخبرهم أن محمدا (صلى الله عليه وآله) قد تعرض لعيرهم في أصحابه، فخرج ضمضم سريعا إلى مكة، وكانت عاتكة بنت عبد المطلب رأت فيما يرى النائم قبل مقدم ضمضم بن عمرو بثلاث ليال ان رجلا أقبل على بعير له ينادي يا آل غالب اغدوا إلى مصارعكم، ثم وافى بجملة على أبي قبيس فأخذ حجرا فدهدهه من الجبل فما ترك دارا من دور قريش إلا أصابته منه فلذة، When Abu Sufyan heard of the travellers of the Prophet -saww , he chose Zamzam Bin Amro and Al-Ghafary and sent them to Makkah and ordered them that they should go to the Quraysh, so they should alienate them and inform them that Muhammad -saww had turned his -saww companions towards their camels’.

So, Zamzam went out in a haste to Makkah, and Aatiqa daughter of Abdul Muttalib -asws saw it, in what is seen in the sleep (a dream), three nights before the arrival of Zamzam Bin Amro, that men have faced to a camel of his calling out, ‘O progeny of Ghalib! Go to your gladiators, then forward them upon (mount) Abu Qubays, and take stones and roll them down from the mountain. So not a single house from the houses of Quraysh was left except that it was hit from it’.

فانتبهت فزعة من ذلك وأخبرت العباس بذلك فأخبر العباس عتبة بن ربيعة فقال عتبة هذه مصيبة تحدث في قريش وفشت الرؤيا فيهم وبلغ ذلك أبا جهل فقال: هذه نبية ثانية في بني عبد المطلب. واللات والعزى لننظرن ثلاثة أيام فإن كان ما رأت حقا وإلا لنكتبن كتابا بيننا أنه ما من أهل بيت من العرب أكذب رجالا ونساء من بني هاشم، She panicked from that and she informed Al-Abbas with that.

So Al-Abbas informed Otba Bin Rabi’e, so Otba said, ‘This is a difficulty which would occur in Quraysh, and the dream would manifest itself among them’. And (the news of) that reached Abu Jahl, so he said, ‘This is a second prophetess among the Clan of Abdul Muttalib -asws , and Al-Laat and Al-Uzza (two worshipped idols), will consider (the matter) for three days.

So, either what she saw was the truth, or else we shall write down in between us, that there is none from the household of the Arabs more liars, men and women, than the Clan of Hashim -asws ’.