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The nephew of Suraqa bin Ju'shum said that his father informed him that he heard Suraqa bin Ju'shum saying, "The messengers of the heathens of Quraish came to us declaring that they had assigned for the persons who would kill or arrest Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr, a reward equal to their bloodmoney. While I was sitting in one of the gatherings of my tribe, Bani Mudlij, a man from them came to us and stood up while we were sitting, and said, "O Suraqa! No doubt, I have just seen some people far away on the seashore, and I think they are Muhammad and his companions." Suraqa added, "I too realized that it must have been they. But I said 'No, it is not they, but you have seen so-and-so, and so-and-so whom we saw set out.' I stayed in the gathering for a while and then got up and left for my home and ordered my slave-girl to get my horse which was behind a hillock, and keep it ready for me. Then I took my spear and left by the back door of my house dragging the lower end of the spear on the ground and keeping it low. Then I reached my horse, mounted it and made it gallop. When I approached them (i.e. Muhammad and Abu Bakr), my horse stumbled and I fell down from it, Then I stood up, got hold of my quiver and took out the divining arrows and drew lots as to whether I should harm them (i.e. the Prophet (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr) or not, and the lot which I disliked came out. But I remounted my horse and let it gallop, giving no importance to the divining arrows. When I heard the recitation of the Quran by Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) who did not look hither and thither while Abu Bakr was doing it often, suddenly the forelegs of my horse sank into the ground up to the knees, and I fell down from it. Then I rebuked it and it got up but could hardly take out its forelegs from the ground, and when it stood up straight again, its fore-legs caused dust to rise up in the sky like smoke. Then again I drew lots with the divining arrows, and the lot which I disliked, came out. So I called upon them to feel secure. They stopped, and I remounted my horse and went to them. When I saw how I had been hampered from harming them, it came to my mind that the cause of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) (i.e. Islam) will become victorious. So I said to him, "Your people have assigned a reward equal to the bloodmoney for your head." Then I told them all the plans the people of Mecca had made concerning them. Then I offered them some journey food and goods but they refused to take anything and did not ask for anything, but the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Do not tell others about us." Then I requested him to write for me a statement of security and peace. He ordered 'Amr bin Fuhaira who wrote it for me on a parchment, and then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) proceeded on his way. Narrated 'Urwa bin Az-Zubair:Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) met Az-Zubair in a caravan of Muslim merchants who were returning from Sham. Az-Zubair provided Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr with white clothes to wear. When the Muslims of Medina heard the news of the departure of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) from Mecca (towards Medina), they started going to the Harra every morning . They would wait for him till the heat of the noon forced them to return. One day, after waiting for a long while, they returned home, and when they went into their houses, a Jew climbed up the roof of one of the forts of his people to look for something, and he saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and his companions dressed in white clothes, emerging out of the desert mirage. The Jew could not help shouting at the top of his voice, "O you 'Arabs! Here is your great man whom you have been waiting for!" So all the Muslims rushed to their arms and received Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) on the summit of Harra. The Prophet (ﷺ) turned with them to the right and alighted at the quarters of Bani 'Amr bin 'Auf, and this was on Monday in the month of Rabi-ul-Awal. Abu Bakr stood up, receiving the people while Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sat down and kept silent. Some of the Ansar who came and had not seen Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) before, began greeting Abu Bakr, but when the sunshine fell on Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr came forward and shaded him with his sheet only then the people came to know Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) stayed with Bani 'Amr bin 'Auf for ten nights and established the mosque (mosque of Quba) which was founded on piety. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) prayed in it and then mounted his she-camel and proceeded on, accompanied by the people till his she-camel knelt down at (the place of) the Mosque of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) at Medina. Some Muslims used to pray there in those days, and that place was a yard for drying dates belonging to Suhail and Sahl, the orphan boys who were under the guardianship of 'Asad bin Zurara. When his she-camel knelt down, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "This place, Allah willing, will be our abiding place." Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) then called the two boys and told them to suggest a price for that yard so that he might take it as a mosque. The two boys said, "No, but we will give it as a gift, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)!" Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) then built a mosque there. The Prophet (ﷺ) himself started carrying unburnt bricks for its building and while doing so, he was saying "This load is better than the load of Khaibar, for it is more pious in the Sight of Allah and purer and better rewardable." He was also saying, "O Allah! The actual reward is the reward in the Hereafter, so bestow Your Mercy on the Ansar and the Emigrants." Thus the Prophet (ﷺ) recited (by way of proverb) the poem of some Muslim poet whose name is unknown to me. (Ibn Shihab said, "In the Hadiths it does not occur that Allah's Apostle recited a complete poetic verse other than this one)

قال ابن شهاب واخبرني عبد الرحمن بن مالك المدلجي وهو ابن اخي سراقة بن مالك بن جعشم ان اباه، اخبره انه، سمع سراقة بن جعشم، يقول جاءنا رسل كفار قريش يجعلون في رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وابي بكر دية كل واحد منهما، من قتله او اسره، فبينما انا جالس في مجلس من مجالس قومي بني مدلج اقبل رجل منهم حتى قام علينا ونحن جلوس، فقال يا سراقة، اني قد رايت انفا اسودة بالساحل اراها محمدا واصحابه. قال سراقة فعرفت انهم هم، فقلت له انهم ليسوا بهم، ولكنك رايت فلانا وفلانا انطلقوا باعيننا. ثم لبثت في المجلس ساعة، ثم قمت فدخلت فامرت جاريتي ان تخرج بفرسي وهى من وراء اكمة فتحبسها على، واخذت رمحي، فخرجت به من ظهر البيت، فحططت بزجه الارض، وخفضت عاليه حتى اتيت فرسي فركبتها، فرفعتها تقرب بي حتى دنوت منهم، فعثرت بي فرسي، فخررت عنها فقمت، فاهويت يدي الى كنانتي فاستخرجت منها الازلام، فاستقسمت بها اضرهم ام لا فخرج الذي اكره، فركبت فرسي، وعصيت الازلام، تقرب بي حتى اذا سمعت قراءة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وهو لا يلتفت، وابو بكر يكثر الالتفات ساخت يدا فرسي في الارض حتى بلغتا الركبتين، فخررت عنها ثم زجرتها فنهضت، فلم تكد تخرج يديها، فلما استوت قايمة، اذا لاثر يديها عثان ساطع في السماء مثل الدخان، فاستقسمت بالازلام، فخرج الذي اكره، فناديتهم بالامان فوقفوا، فركبت فرسي حتى جيتهم، ووقع في نفسي حين لقيت ما لقيت من الحبس عنهم ان سيظهر امر رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فقلت له ان قومك قد جعلوا فيك الدية. واخبرتهم اخبار ما يريد الناس بهم، وعرضت عليهم الزاد والمتاع، فلم يرزاني ولم يسالاني الا ان قال اخف عنا. فسالته ان يكتب لي كتاب امن، فامر عامر بن فهيرة، فكتب في رقعة من اديم، ثم مضى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم. قال ابن شهاب فاخبرني عروة بن الزبير ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لقي الزبير في ركب من المسلمين كانوا تجارا قافلين من الشام، فكسا الزبير رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وابا بكر ثياب بياض، وسمع المسلمون بالمدينة مخرج رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من مكة، فكانوا يغدون كل غداة الى الحرة فينتظرونه، حتى يردهم حر الظهيرة، فانقلبوا يوما بعد ما اطالوا انتظارهم، فلما اووا الى بيوتهم، اوفى رجل من يهود على اطم من اطامهم لامر ينظر اليه، فبصر برسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم واصحابه مبيضين يزول بهم السراب، فلم يملك اليهودي ان قال باعلى صوته يا معاشر العرب هذا جدكم الذي تنتظرون. فثار المسلمون الى السلاح، فتلقوا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم بظهر الحرة، فعدل بهم ذات اليمين حتى نزل بهم في بني عمرو بن عوف، وذلك يوم الاثنين من شهر ربيع الاول، فقام ابو بكر للناس، وجلس رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم صامتا، فطفق من جاء من الانصار ممن لم ير رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يحيي ابا بكر، حتى اصابت الشمس رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فاقبل ابو بكر حتى ظلل عليه بردايه، فعرف الناس رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عند ذلك، فلبث رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في بني عمرو بن عوف بضع عشرة ليلة واسس المسجد الذي اسس على التقوى، وصلى فيه رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، ثم ركب راحلته فسار يمشي معه الناس حتى بركت عند مسجد الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم بالمدينة، وهو يصلي فيه يوميذ رجال من المسلمين، وكان مربدا للتمر لسهيل وسهل غلامين يتيمين في حجر اسعد بن زرارة، فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم حين بركت به راحلته " هذا ان شاء الله المنزل ". ثم دعا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الغلامين، فساومهما بالمربد ليتخذه مسجدا، فقالا لا بل نهبه لك يا رسول الله، ثم بناه مسجدا، وطفق رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ينقل معهم اللبن في بنيانه، ويقول وهو ينقل اللبن " هذا الحمال لا حمال خيبر هذا ابر ربنا واطهر ". ويقول " اللهم ان الاجر اجر الاخره فارحم الانصار والمهاجره ". فتمثل بشعر رجل من المسلمين لم يسم لي. قال ابن شهاب ولم يبلغنا في الاحاديث ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم تمثل ببيت شعر تام غير هذه الايات