The Quraysh Plot to Assassinate the Prophet ﷺ at Dar al-Nadwa

The Quraysh held a secret meeting in the middle of the night at Dar al-Nadwa, their council house. Every clan sent a representative except the Banu Hashim, the clan of the Prophet ﷺ. Even Abu Lahab was not invited, because the plot was against his own nephew. They also left out Mut'im ibn Adi, who was protecting the Prophet ﷺ at that time.

According to a weak report, an old man knocked on the door during the meeting. He said he was a leader from Najd and offered to help them with his advice. Ibn Abbas said this old man was Iblis. The council feared that if the Prophet ﷺ joined the Muslims who had already emigrated, he would become a threat to Makkah. One suggestion was to lock him up in a house, and another was to send him into exile, but both ideas were rejected. Then Abu Jahal proposed that every clan send one man, so that they would all strike him together. His blood would then be on all their swords, and no single clan could be blamed. The Banu Hashim could not fight all the clans at once, so they would have to accept blood money.

The clans chose their men and sent them to the Prophet ﷺ's house. At the same time, Jibril AS came to the Prophet ﷺ and told him he must make the Hijrah, the emigration to Madinah, at once. That same evening the Prophet ﷺ spoke to Abu Bakr RA, and he left that same night.