#Part 45 Madinah (45) Just as the people were about to dispe | Ask A Muslim

#Part 45

Madinah (45)

Just as the people were about to disperse, a strange voice was
heard calling out : “O men of the camp! Will you not deal with Muhammad? Right now disbelief has prevailed and he and his followers are preapring to fight you.” The Prophet ﷺ knew that it was a demon speaking . He called back, “O enemy of Allah! Soon I will deal with you.” The Prophet ﷺ then told the Muslims to return quietly to their beds as day was about to break.

The next morning, the Quraysh, having heard a rumour resented
about the pledge at Aqabah, went to the Yathrib camp to protest against what had happened. They their visitors’
patronage of someone they deemed to be an outcast, and voiced their displeasure about any contact between the contingent from Yathrib and the Prophet ﷺ. The polytheists of Yathrib, who knew nothing of the event, insisted nothing had taken place, while the Muslims kept silent. The Quraysh reluctantly accepted the polytheists’ reassurance and returned home. Later however, the Quraysh found out that the rumour was in fact true. Infuriated, they sent their horsemen to apprehend any who took part in the pledge, and at Adhaker they captured Sa’d bin Ubada and Mundhir bin Amr. While Mundhir bin Amr
managed to escape, Sa’d was bound and taken to Makkah .

The Muslims from Yathrib planned to raid Makkah in order to free their brother Muslim. Before they could carry out their plans, however, Sa’d was freed by two Makkans, Mut’im bin Adiy and Harith bin Harb, whose caravans Sa’d had protected in Yathrib. Sa’d rejoined the others, and they all returned home safely.

The Second Pledge of Aqabah had changed the equation
considerably for the Muslims. They now had a new refuge in Yathrib, and its people were ready to protect them. Soon the Prophet ﷺ himself received revelation about migration to Yathrib. He told his Companions, “I have been informed that we will one day migrate from Makkah to a land of dates. I think that it is either Yamama or Hijr.” On another occasion he said, “I have been shown the place to which you will migrate. It lies between two hills of lava. It is either Hijr or Yathrib.”

Taking advantage of this new haven that had been offered to
them, several Muslims migrated to Yathrib following the pledge. The first emigrant was Abu Salama Makhzoomi . The husband of Umm Salamah . He attempted to migrate with his wife and children the year before the Second Pledge of Aqabah , but his clan would not allow him to take his family, so he was forced to migrate by himself to Yathrib. A year later Umm Salamah was allowed to join her husband.

Amir bin Rabi’a, his wife Layla bint Abi Hathma, and
Abdullah bin Umm Maktoom migrated after Abu Salamh. Getting away proved difficult though, because they had to slip out of Makkah past the watchful Quraysh. Umar bin Khattab, however, left Makkah in full view of the Quraysh, and no one dared to try to stop him. He also took twenty others with him.
Soon, nearly all the Muslims in Makkah had migrated to
Yathrib. Even the refugees in Abyssinia made their way there after hearing about the pledge at Aqabah.

However, Abu Bakr, Ali, Suhayb and Zayd bin Haritha , stayed in Makkah together with those muslims who were unable to migrate. The Prophet ﷺ stayed on in Makkah as well, awaiting Allah’s permission to leave. He asked Abu Bakr to wait with him. Abu Bakr had two very fast camels , and he would feed them acasia leaves to make them even stronger and swifter. This way he and the Prophet ﷺ could make a speedy escape, once Allah’s command to leave Makkah came.

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