Leaving home 🥀 (47)
Jibreel brings the Prophet ﷺ happy news
Meanwhile, Jibreel came to the Prophet ﷺ with the tidings that Allah had ordered the Prophet ﷺ to migrate. Jibreel told him the exact time he should depart and informed the Prophet ﷺ of the plot to assassinate him. “Don’t sleep in the bed you usually sleep in,” he advised the Prophet .🌾
At noon, when everyone was napping, the Prophet ﷺ went
to the house of Abu Bakr Siddeeq and told him the happy news. Quickly, they began to prepare both camels🐫 for the long journey. They also hired Abdullah bin Urayqat Laythi to lead them to Yathrib. Abdullah knew the area between Makkah🕋 and Yathrib🌴 well, and although he was not Muslim, he agreed to escort the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr secretly. The Prophet told Abdullah to meet them near Mount Thawr⛰️ in three nights, Meanwhile, the Prophet began to engage himself in day to day activities so that no one would suspect that he was about to leave Makkah.🕋
The Prophet ﷺ used to go to sleep after the evening prayer,
and upon waking up around midnight he would go to the Ka’bah🕋 to perform supplimentary (Tahajjud) prayers. The night the Prophet ﷺ was to leave, he asked Ali to sleep in his bed after assuring him that no harm would come to him. When everyone had gone to bed, the assassins surrounded the Prophet’s house.
They saw Ali👀 wrapped in the Prophet’s green mantle, lying in the Prophet’s bed, and thought that he was Muhammad . The plan was for them to lie in wait for the Prophet ﷺ and fall upon him when he came out of his house🗡️. The Quraysh were unaware that just as they were plotting, Allah too was plotting:❣️
“Remember how the unbelievers plotted against you to imprison you, to kill you, or to exile you from Makkah. They plot and plan, but Allah plans too, and the best of planners is Allah.” (8: 30)
Although Ali was in the Prophet’s bed, the Prophet ﷺ
himself was still in the house surrounded by the assassins. The Prophet ﷺ came out of his house and took a handful of dust which he sprinkled above the young boys’ heads while reciting the following verse:
“I have placed a barrier in front of them and a barrier behind them. I have covered them so they cannot see.” (39: 9)
The youths did not see the Prophet ﷺ leave. He went swiftly to Abu Bakr and together they travelled, not toward Yathrib, but in the opposite direction toward Yemen. Before dawn, they had covered a distance of about five miles, and then they took refuge in a cave on Mount Thawr⛰️.
Unaware of the Prophet’s escape, the would-be assassins
continued to wait for him to come out of his house👀. Only at dawn when Ali woke and came out did they realise that they had been tricked. They interrogated Ali about the Prophet’s whereabouts, but he pleaded ignorance. They then dragged him to the Ka’bah🕋 and kept him captive there, but he divulged nothing. Then they rushed to Abu Bakr’s house and found that he had also disappeared. However, they did find his daughter, Asmaa, who refused to tell them anything. Her calm defiance enraged them, and a furious Abu Jahl slapped her so hard that an ear-ring flew from her ear🥀.
The Quraysh began searching for the Prophet ﷺ and Abu
Bakr and annoucned that there was a reward of one hundred camels🐫📣🐫 for each fugitive brought back dead or alive.
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