"I never saw the Quraysh attempt to kill the Messenger of Allah ﷺ except on one day. I saw them sitting in the shade of the Kaabah, while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was praying at the Maqam. Uqba bin Abu Muayt got up, walked over to him, placed his cloak around his neck, and pulled it so violently that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ fell to his knees. The people cried out, thinking he had been killed.Then Abu Bakr came rushing in and grabbed the Messenger of Allah ﷺ by his shoulders from behind, saying, "Would you kill a man for saying, 'My Lord is Allah'?" [Ghafir 40:28]. They then turned away from the Prophet ﷺ.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood up, and when he had finished his prayer, he passed by them as they sat in the shade of the Kaabah and said, "People of Quraysh, by the One in whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, I have been sent to you with slaughter," gesturing with his hand to his throat.Abu Jahl said to him, "Muhammad, you were never one given to foolish speech."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied, "You are one of them."
ما رأيت قريشا أرادوا قتل رسول الله ﷺ إلا يوما رأيتهم وهم جلوس في ظل الكعبة، ورسول الله ﷺ يصلي عند المقام، فقام إليه عقبة بن أبي معيط، فجعل رداءه في عنقه، ثم جذبه حتى وجب الركبتيه ﷺ، وتصايح الناس، فظنوا أنه مقتول، قال: وأقبل أبو بكر يشتد حتى أخذ بضبعي رسول الله ﷺ من ورائه، وهو يقول: أتقتلون رجلا أن يقول ربي؟ ثم انصرفوا عن النبي ﷺ، فقام رسول الله ﷺ، فلما قضى صلاته، مر بهم وهم جلوس في ظل الكعبة، فقال: يا معشر قريش! أما والذي نفس محمد بيده، ماأرسلت إليكم إلا بالذبح. وأشار بيده إلى حلقه، فقال له أبو جهل: يامحمد! ما كنت جهولا. فقال رسول الله ﷺ: أنت منهم.
Ibn Abu Shayba narrated it in Musannaf (37716), Abu Yaala (7339), and Ibn Hibban (6569), all of them via Ali bin Mushir, from Muhammad bin Amr, from Abu Salama, from Amr bin As, who said, and then he mentioned it. Its chain is hasan because of Muhammad bin Amr bin Alqama, for his hadith is hasan.The hadith has other routes, some of which Bukhari pointed to in the Merits of the Ansar chapter after (3856), and some of which are mentioned in the Book of Sira in Jami Kamil.