I said to Abdullah bin Amr bin As, "Tell me about the worst thing the polytheists did to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."He said, "While the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was praying in the courtyard of the Kaabah, Uqba bin Abu Muayt came up, seized the shoulder of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, twisted his garment around his neck, and choked him violently with it. Then Abu Bakr came forward, took hold of Uqba's shoulder, pushed him away from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and said, 'Would you kill a man merely for saying, My Lord is Allah, when he has brought you clear proofs from your Lord?' [Ghafir 40:28]"
قلت لعبد الله بن عمرو بن العاص: أخبرني بأشد ما صنع المشركون برسول الله ﷺ، قال: بينا رسول الله ﷺ يصلي بفناء الكعبة، إذ أقبل عقبة بن أبي معيط، فأخذ بمنكب رسول الله ﷺ مولوي ثوبه في عنقه، فخنقه به خنقا شديدا، فأقبل أبو بكر، فأخذ بمنكبه ودفع عن رسول الله ﷺ، وقال: {أتقتلون رجلا أن يقول ربي الله وقد جاءكم بالبينات من ربكم}
Bukhari narrated it in the tafsir (4815) from Ali bin Abdullah, who said, Walid bin Muslim told us, who said, Uzai told us, who said, Yahya bin Abu Kathir told me, who said, Muhammad bin Ibrahim Taymi told me, who said, Urwa bin Zubayr told me, who said, then he mentioned it.