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Bukhari narrated it in "The Beginning of Creation" (3231), and Muslim in "Jihad" (1795), both from the hadith of Ibn Wahb, who said, Yunus informed me, from Ibn Shihab, Urwa bin Zubayr told me, that Ayesha told him, and he mentioned the hadith. The wording given here is Muslim's, and Bukhari's wording is similar.His saying, "the two Akhshabayn," refers to two mountains in Makkah, Abu Qubays and the one facing it, and the meaning of them "closing together" is that they would meet upon the people of Makkah. This is what Ibn Qayyim and Ibn Hajar said. See Zad Mad (32/3), and Fath al-Bari (316/6).His saying, "the day of Aqaba," refers to the day on which people gather to perform the Hajj at Mina. It seems that the Prophet ﷺ, after attending the day of Aqaba, set out for Taif, and met Ibn Abd Yalil and the chiefs of the people of Taif. This took place in Shawwal of the tenth year after the start of his mission, after the deaths of Abu Talib and Khadijah. The Hajj falling in the month of Shawwal was due to the practice of calendar manipulation (nasi) in the pre-Islamic era, in place of the month of Dhul-Hijjah. Some commentators mistakenly claimed that the incident took place at Aqaba in Mina, but the correct view is that it took place in Taif.Musa bin Uqba mentioned in Maghazi, from Ibn Shihab, that when Abu Talib died, he ﷺ set out for Taif, hoping they would give him shelter. He approached three men of Thaqif who were their chiefs, the brothers Abd Yalil, Habib, and Masud, sons of Amr. He presented himself to them and complained to them of what his people had done to him, but they gave him the worst possible response, Fath (315/6), and even incited their foolish ones against him, who took to throwing stones at him until his feet ﷺ bled. Zayd bin Haritha, his freedman, was with him, shielding him with his own body until he sustained wounds to his head.Musa bin Uqba said, from Ibn Shihab, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ during those years used to present himself to the tribes of the Arabs at every season, speaking to the chief of every group, asking nothing of them beyond sheltering him and protecting him. He would say, "I do not compel any of you to do anything. Whoever among you accepts what I invite him to, that is his own choice, and whoever dislikes it, I will not force him. I only want you to protect me from those who seek to kill me, so that I may deliver the messages of my Lord, until Allah decrees for me and for those who accompany me whatever He wills." But none of them accepted him, and none of those tribes came to him without saying, "The man's own people know him best. Do you think a man can set us right when his own people have rejected him and cast him out?" That was something Allah reserved for the Ansar, honoring them with it.When Abu Talib died, the affliction upon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned more intensely than before, so he set out for Thaqif in Taif, hoping they would shelter him. He found three men among them, the chiefs of Thaqif at that time, brothers, Abd Yalil bin Amr, Habib bin Amr, and Masud bin Amr. He presented himself to them and complained to them of the affliction and what his people had done to him.One of them said, "I would tear up the coverings of the Kaaba if Allah had ever sent you with anything." Another said, "Was Allah unable to send someone other than you?" The third said, "By Allah, I will never speak to you again after this sitting of yours. By Allah, if you are truly the Messenger of Allah, then you are too great in honor and right for me to speak to you, and if you are lying about Allah, then you are too vile for me to speak to you."They mocked him and spread among their people what they had said to him in reply, and they lined up in two rows along his path. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed between their two lines, they made sure that whenever he lifted his feet or set them down, they pelted them with stones they had prepared, until they made his feet bleed.He escaped from them with his feet streaming blood, and made his way to an orchard of theirs, where he took shelter in the shade of a grapevine, distressed and in pain, his feet streaming with blood. In that orchard were Utba bin Rabia and Shayba bin Rabia. When he saw them, he disliked their presence, knowing their enmity toward Allah and His Messenger. When they saw him, they sent to him a young servant of theirs named Addas, a Christian from the people of Nineveh, who had grapes with him. When Addas came to him, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him, "From what land are you, Addas?" Addas said, "I am from Nineveh." The Prophet ﷺ said to him, "From the town of the righteous man Yunus bin Matta?" Addas said to him, "And how do you know of Yunus bin Matta?" The Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who never disdained anyone when it came to delivering the message of his Lord, said to him, "I am the Messenger of Allah, and Allah, Most High, has informed me of the account of Yunus bin Matta." When he told him what Allah had revealed concerning Yunus bin Matta, Addas fell down prostrating before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and began kissing his feet as they streamed with blood.When Utba and Shayba saw what their servant was doing, they fell silent. When he came back to them, they said, "What is the matter with you, prostrating to Muhammad and kissing his feet, when we have never seen you do that to any of us?" He said, "This is a righteous man. He told me something I recognized concerning a messenger Allah sent to us, called Yunus bin Matta." They laughed at him and said, "Do not let him tempt you away from your Christianity, for he is a deceptive man." Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned to Makkah.Bayhaqi related it in Dalail (2/414-316) through his route from Musa bin Uqba, from Ibn Shihab, as a mursal report. Ibn Ishaq mentioned something similar without an isnad. See Sirat bin Hisham (421/1). Abu Naeem related it in Dalail (389/1-392) with another isnad, from Ibn Lahia, from Abu Aswad, from Urwa bin Zubayr, who mentioned it. This is also mursal, and it also contains Ibn Lahia, concerning whom there is well-known discussion.So he turned back from Taif after having stayed among them for ten days, and he ﷺ was overcome with sorrow. On that return journey, he made the well-known supplication, the supplication of Taif, complaining to Allah of his weakened state.