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The boycott of the Banu Hashim

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Quraysh agreed to cut off trade and marriage with the Banu Hashim, so the clan withdrew into a valley in the hills, the Shi'b Abi Talib, for about three years.

Quraysh agreed to boycott the Banu Hashim and the Banu al-Muttalib: no one would sell to them or marry into their families. The clan gathered in the valley of Abu Talib, a valley between the hills, and lived there for about three years in great hardship, until the agreement they had written was torn up.

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