[citation needed] Umm Jamil supported her husband in his opposition to Muhammad's preaching.
[3] When Muhammad promised Paradise to the believers, Abu Lahab blew on his hands and said, "May you perish.
[11][12][3] Ibn Ishaq implies that it occurred in 616, when Abu Lahab left the Hashim clan and refused to protect Muhammad.
[13][14] Ibn Ishaq says that Umm Jamil was called "the carrier of firewood" because she carried thorns and cast them in Muhammad's way where he would be passing;[15] however, he also states that the Quraysh did not resort to this form of harassment until after the death of Abu Talib in 620.
[16] Ibn Kathir also offers the alternative theory that "carrier of firewood" does not refer to a past event but to Umm Jamil's future destiny of willingly stoking the fires that would punish her husband in Hell.
Then she produced a poem of her own: We reject the reprobate, His words we repudiate, His religion we loathe and hate.