[3] This may be the same daughter who later married Abu Sufyan's nephew Abd al-Muttalib (son of Rabi'ah ibn al-Harith).
Then the people of nobility and age began to break away from Muhammad, and they helped their gods and defended their forefathers, and we followed them.
"[4]: 400 "He showed hatred toward the Prophet for twenty years, never remaining behind when the Quraysh set out to fight Muhammad.
As he told his uncle, Abu Lahab: "As soon as we met the party we turned our backs and they were killing and capturing us just as they pleased; and by God I don't blame the people for that.
We met men in white on piebald horses between heaven and earth, and, by Allah, they spared nothing, and none could withstand them.
[4]: 397 In January 626 Muhammad led the final expedition to Badr, an appointment for a pitched battle between the Quraysh and the Muslims.
[5]: 448–449 Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith composed an answer: O Hassan, son of a moldy date-eating woman, … you stayed by the shallow well wanting us and you left us in the palm-groves hard by.
Abu Sufyan responded with a counter-poem: May Allah make that deed immortal, May fire burn in its quarters!
"[4]: 397 Abu Sufyan urged his slave Madhkur to hurry saddling the camels and horse to meet Muhammad's army at al-Abwa.
Together with Jumanah, Ja’far and his cousin Abd Allah ibn Abi Umayya, he travelled in disguise and in fear of his life, "for my blood was permitted.
Abu Sufyan worried that he would be killed in revenge for his past hostility, although he hoped that Muhammad would be pleased about his conversion because of their original friendship.
[4]: 398 At Niqu'l-‘Uqab Muhammad's wife Umm Salama, who was Abd Allah's sister, urged him to receive them.
When Abu Sufyan heard this message, he responded: "By Allah, he must let me in, or I will take this little boy of mine and we will wander through the land until we die of hunger and thirst.
[4]: 442–443 Muhammad took a formal declaration of faith from both Abu Sufyan and Abd Allah ibn Abi Umayya.
By thy life, when I carried a banner To give al-Lat’s cavalry the victory over Muhammad, I was like one going astray in the darkness of the night, But now I am led on the right track.
[4]: 341 Three days before his death, Abu Sufyan dug his own grave in Al-Baqi Cemetery near the house of Aqil ibn Abi Talib.