In Shawwal of the prophethood's tenth year the Prophet ﷺ walked to Taif with Zayd ibn Haritha (may God be pleased with him), calling to Islam; its chiefs and lowfolk rejected him and he returned broken.
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The Prophet's journey to al-Ta'if
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In Shawwal of the prophethood's tenth year — late May or early June 619 CE — the Prophet ﷺ went to Taif, some sixty miles from Mecca, on foot with his freedman Zayd ibn Haritha (may God be pleased with him), calling the tribes on the road and not one answering. He sat with three brothers of Thaqif's chiefs — Abd Yalil, Mas'ud and Habib the sons of Amr — calling them to God and to the aid of Islam, and met mockery and dismissal, rising with the words 'as you have done what you did, keep it from me'. He stayed ten days leaving none of their chiefs unaddressed; they said 'leave our land' and stirred up their lowfolk, who followed him cursing and shouting and throwing stones till they hurt him, Zayd shielding him with his body till his head was cut; he took refuge in an orchard of Utba and Shayba the sons of Rabi'a, some three miles from Taif.
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