Abu Jahl passed by and said, "Did I not forbid you from this?" The Prophet ﷺ rebuked him sharply.Abu Jahl said to him, "Why do you rebuke me, Muhammad? By Allah, you know well that no man here has a larger gathering behind him than I do."Then Jibreel said, "Then let him call his associates" [Alaq 96:17].Ibn Abbas said, "By Allah, had he called his associates, the angels of punishment would have seized him."
حدثنا عبد الله بن محمد قال عبد الله بن أحمد وسمعته أنا منه حدثنا أبو خالد الأحمر عن داود عن عكرمة
مر أبو جهل فقال ألم أنهك فانتهره النبي ﷺ فقال له أبو جهل لم تنتهرني يا محمد فوالله لقد علمت ما بها رجل أكثر ناديا مني قال فقال جبريل عليه السلام {فليدع ناديه} قال فقال ابن عباس والله لو دعا ناديه لأخذته زبانية العذاب
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Its isnad is sahih. Dawud is Ibn Abu Hind. Tirmidhi narrated something similar to it, 4:216, from Abdullah bin Saeed Ashaj, from Abu Khalid Ahmar, and he said, a gharib hasan sahih hadith. Ibn Kathir mentioned it in the tafsir, 9:248, and also attributed it to Nasai and Ibn Jareer. See 3045.Haythami said, 8/228, part of it is in the Sahih, and Ahmad narrated it through Zakwan from Ikrima, and I did not know Zakwan, while the rest of his narrators are the narrators of the Sahih. It appears that in Haythami's copy the name is Zakwan, which is a corruption, and the correct name is Dawud, as it is here and as it will come at 3045, namely Dawud bin Abu Hind.