How the Prophet ﷺ reacted when he was physically abused: The disbelievers rejected his message of Islam and they ordered their children to pelt him with stones. He ﷺ was bleeding so much from the stoning, that his feet became clotted to his shoes and was wounded badly. It has been narrated on the authority of ʿĀʾishah رضي الله عنها, who said to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: “Messenger of Allah, has there come upon you a day more terrible than the day of Uhud.” He said ﷺ: “Indeed, I experienced them (dangers) at the hands of your people (i.e., the disbelievers from amongst the Quraish tribe). The hardest treatment I met from them was on the Day of ʿAqaba. I betook myself to Ibn ʿAbd Yalil b. ʿAbd Kulal (who was one of the chiefs of Ṭāʾif) with the purpose of inviting him to Islam, but he did not respond to me as I desired. So I departed with signs of (deep) distress on my face. I did not recover until I reached Qarn al-Thaʿalib. There, I raised my head and saw a cloud which had cast its shadow on me. I saw in it Jibril who called out to me and said: ‘Indeed, Allah, the Exalted, heard what your people said to you and the response they made to you. And He has sent you the angel in charge of the mountains to order him to do to them what you wish’. The angel in charge of the mountains (then) called out to me, greeted me and said: ‘O Muhammad, Allah listened to what your people had said to you. I am the angel of the mountains, and my Rabb has sent me to you so that you may give me your orders. (I will carry out your orders). If you wish I will bring together the two mountains that stand opposite to each other at the extremities of Makkah to crush them in between.” But the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him: ‘I rather hope that God will produce from their descendants such persons as will worship Allah, the One, and will not ascribe partners to Him’. [Ṣāḥīḥ Muslim 1795]
