Abū Jahl's Mockery

They were discussing the vision of ʿĀtikah — the news was all over. Now, when Abū Jahl saw al-ʿAbbās, he told him, "Abū al-Faḍl, why do you not come and join us?" This was after he had finished his ṭawāf, so al-ʿAbbās made his ṭawāf and then went to sit with them. So what did Abū Jahl say? He said, "How long has your family of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib had this female prophet?" So al-ʿAbbās pretended as if he did not know what he was talking about. He said, "What do you mean?" Abū Jahl said, "I am talking about the vision ʿĀtikah saw. Are you people of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib not satisfied with having your men become prophets? Has it got to be your women now?" ʿĀtikah had said that in her vision a man said, "Come forth in three days" — we are going to watch you closely for those three days, and if what you say is true, so be it, but if three days pass without anything happening, then we will judge you to be the biggest liars of all the Arabs, because in the dream it says come to your deaths in three days. So now Abū Jahl was saying that if three days passed and nothing happened, they would consider them the biggest liars among all the Arabs. So Abū Jahl here insulted the people of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, insulted the men and insulted the women, claiming that they were liars.