They offered him in exchange to be their King and marry as many beautiful women he liked, as long as he would abandon his mission of preaching Islam.
To this, Muhammad answered, “By Allah, if they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left, I would not abandon it.
[4] When Muhammad recited Quran 53, it has been reported in a hadith text Muslims and polytheists prostrated together in a communal act of worship.
[5] According to Alfred Guillaume Walīd ibn al-Mughīra was too old to prostrate, instead, he took a symbolic handful of dirt and bent over it.
"[8] Walīd ibn al-Mughīra was one of the Quraysh leaders who were indirectly mentioned in several verses of Quran.
He told them, "The time of the annual pilgrimige has come round again, and representatives of Arabs will come to you and they will have heard about Muhammad.
He recommended that they call Muhammad a sorcerer who has brought a message by which he separated a man from his father, brother, wife or family.
"[9][10] One day Muhammad was sitting with Walid in the Kaaba when Nadr ibn al-Harith came and sat with among the assembly of the Quraysh.
Walid said to him, "By Allah, al-Naḍr could not stand up to Muhammad just now, and he alleged that we and our gods are fuel for Hell."
Then this verse of the Quraan was revealed: "Those who have received kindness from us in the past will be removed far from it and will not hear its sound and they abide eternally in their heart's desire."
(Sura 6: 10)[14]When Walid and his friends persisted in constant mockery of Muhammad, this verse was recited: "Proclaim what you have been ordered and turn away from the polytheists.
The same Yazid told me from Urwa (or it may have been from some other traditionist) that Gabriel came to the apostle when the mockers were going round the temple.
Then Al-Aaswad ibn Abdu Yaghuth passed, and he pointed at his belly, which swelled so that he died of dropsy.
He pointed at an old scar on the bottom of his ankle (the result of a wound he received some years earlier as he was trailing his gown when he passed by a Khuzaʿi who was feathering an arrow, and the arrowhead caught in his wrapper and scratched his foot – a mere nothing).