Three nights in the cave
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When the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr arrived at the cave on
Mount Thawr, Abu Bakr entered first to clear away anything that might injure the Prophet ﷺ. He found a few holes and stuffed them with pieces of cloth. The Prophet ﷺ then entered and went to sleep with his head on Abu Bakr’s lap. Suddenly, something stung Abu Bakr’s foot, but he did not even twitch, fearing he would wake the Prophet ﷺ . The pain was so intense that tears began to run down his cheeks and onto the Prophet’s ﷺ face. The Prophet ﷺ woke up and saw that Abu Bakr was in pain. He then applied his spittle on the injury and the pain disappeared.
For three consecutive nights the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr
remained hidden in the cave. During this period, Abu Bakr’s son, Abdullah, would pass his nights nearby. The clever young man would return to Makkah
so early in the morning that the Quraysh had no idea that he had slept elsewhere.
Each day in Makkah he collected information about the activities of the Quraysh, and each night he updated the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr. Abu Bakr’s slave, Amir bin Fuhayrah , would graze Abu Bakr’s goats
near the cave so that both men could drink fresh milk.
Early the next morning Amir would drive the goats back to Makkah along the same route that Abu Bakr’s son took, to obscure his footprints. Meanwhile the search party scoured the area south of
Makkah where the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr were hiding.
Once the Quraysh even came upon the mouth of the cave, and had they looked down while standing at the edge of the cave, they would surely have found the men they were hunting. With the Quraysh so close to discovering their hiding place, Abu Bakr became very tense about the Prophet’s safety.
The Prophet ﷺ reassured him, “How can you be apprehensive about two with whom is a third, especially when the third is Allah
”
On the way to Madinah On the first night of Rabi’ Al-Awwal, Abdullah bin Uraqat Laythi, the guide hired by the Prophet ﷺ to take them to Yathrib arrived in the valley of Mount Thawr with Abu Bakr’s two camels.
Abu Bakr’s slave, Amir bin Fahayra, accompanied them. The guide first headed south toward Yemen, and then led the small group westward toward the Red Sea. Before reaching the sea, he veered north toward Yathrib, taking a seldom travelled route.
They journeyed all night and half of the next day. Then they
stopped, and the Prophet ﷺ rested in the shade beneath a rock. Meanwhile, Abu Bakr found a herdsman who let him milk one of his goats. When the Prophet ﷺ awoke, Abu Bakr gave him fresh milk
. Then they pushed ahead.
Perhaps it was the next day that the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr passed the tent of Umm Ma’bad on the outskirts of Qadid, near Mashaal, about 130 km from Makkah . They asked her whether she had anything for four weary travellers. She apologised, saying her goats were grazing far away, and the only one at hand was a small goat that was unable to stay with the herd and didn’t have a drop of milk to give
.
The Prophet ﷺ asked for permission to milk it, and when he did, milk flowed from its udders. He filled a large bowl with milk and first let her drink. After that, each of the travellers drank their fill. When they had all finished, he milked the goat again and left the bowl of milk for the woman.
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