A party of 30 to 40 men assembled at the seacoast near al-Is, between Mecca and Medina, where Amr ibn Hishām (Abu Jahl), the leader of the caravan was camping with 300 Meccan riders.
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The survival of nomads (or Bedouins) was also partially dependent on raiding caravans or oases; thus they saw this as no crime.
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The belligerent attitude of the Quraysh was exposed in the heated argument between Sa'd ibn Mu‘ādh and ’Amr ibn Hishām after the Hijrah.
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