In fact, Amr ibn Hisham, who would later find fame as Abu Jahl, meaning Father of Folly, was among the men who had proposed to her. But Khadija had also refused him without hesitation. Indeed, it is said that one of the reasons that Abu Jahl later set himself against the Prophet was that he married Khadija. When this marriage occurred, Abu Jahl, in hatred and in revenge, would say to himself, “Could she not find anyone else other than the adoptee of Abu Talib, the orphan of the Quraysh?”