The Prophet ﷺ met Zayd bin Amr bin Nufayl in the lower part of Baldah before revelation had begun to descend upon the Prophet ﷺ. A meal was brought before the Prophet ﷺ, but Zayd refused to eat from it.Then Zayd said, "I do not eat what you slaughter upon your stone altars, and I eat only what has been slaughtered with the name of Allah pronounced over it."Zayd bin Amr used to criticize the Quraysh for their slaughtered offerings, saying, "The sheep was created by Allah. He sent down water for it from the sky and caused fodder to grow for it from the earth, yet you slaughter it in a name other than Allah's." He said this in rejection and in reverence for the magnitude of the matter.
أن النبي ﷺ لقي زيد بن عمرو بن نفيل بأسفل بلدح قبل أن ينزل على النبي ﷺ الوحي فقدمت إلى النبي ﷺ سفرة، فأبى أن يأكل منها، ثم قال زيد: إني لست آكل مما تذبحون على أنصابكم، ولا أكل إلا ما ذكر اسم الله عليه، وأن زيد بن عمرو كان يعيب علي قريش ذبائحهم ويقول: الشاة خلقها الله، وأنزل لها من السماء الماء وأنبت لها من الأرض ثم تذبحونها على غير اسم الله إنكارا لذلك وإعظاما له.
Bukhari narrated it in the Virtues of the Ansar chapter (3826), from Muhammad bin Abu Bakr, who said, our teacher Fudayl bin Sulayman narrated to us, our teacher Musa bin Uqba narrated to us, our teacher Salim bin Abdullah narrated to us, from Abdullah bin Umar, who said, and then he related it."Baldah" is a valley on the road from Tanim to Makkah. "Nusub" (plural ansab) refers to anything set up and venerated apart from Allah, mighty and exalted is He. It has also been said that these were stones placed around the Kaaba upon which sacrifices were made to idols.It is reported from Abdullah bin Masud that he said, "The stones that Allah mentioned in the Quran, "whose fuel is people and stones", are stones of sulfur, which Allah, exalted is He, created with Him however He willed or as He willed."This was narrated by Hakim (2/494), from Hasan bin Yaqub Adl, who said, Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhab narrated to us, who said, Jafar bin Awn informed us, who said, Masaar informed us, from Abdul-Malik bin Umayr, from Abdul-Rahman bin Sabit, from Amr bin Maymun, from Abdullah bin Masud, and then he related it. Hakim said, "This is a sahih hadith according to the criterion of the two Shaykhs, though they did not include it in their collections."I say, in its chain is Abdul-Malik bin Umayr, concerning whom there is disagreement, though his hadith is hasan, except that this report is stopped at Abdullah bin Masud (i.e., it is a mawquf report attributed only to him, not to the Prophet).