Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah
As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakatuhu
Merits of the Helpers in Madinah (Ansaar) - 29th Muharram 1432 (4th January
2011)
Narrated 'Aisha (Radi-Allahu 'anha):
(the wife of the Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam)) I never remembered
my parents believing in any religion other than the true religion (i.e.
Islam), and (I don't remember) a single day passing without our being
visited by Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) in the morning
and in the evening. When the Muslims were put to test (i.e. troubled by the
pagans), Abu Bakr set out migrating to the land of Ethiopia, and when he
reached Bark-al-Ghimad, Ibn Ad-Daghina, the chief of the tribe of Qara, met
him and said, "O Abu Bakr! Where are you going?" Abu Bakr replied, "My
people have turned me out (of my country), so I want to wander on the Earth
and worship my Lord." Ibn Ad-Daghina said, "O Abu Bakr! A man like you
should not leave his home-land, nor should he be driven out, because you
help the destitute, earn their livings, and you keep good relations with
your Kith and kin, help the weak and poor, entertain guests generously, and
help the calamity-stricken persons. Therefore I am your protector. Go back
and worship your Lord in your town."
So Abu Bakr returned and Ibn Ad-Daghina accompanied him. In the evening Ibn
Ad-Daghina visited the nobles of Quraish and said to them. "A man like Abu
Bakr should not leave his homeland, nor should he be driven out. Do you
(i.e. Quraish) drive out a man who helps the destitute, earns their living,
keeps good relations with his Kith and kin, helps the weak and poor,
entertains guests generously and helps the calamity-stricken persons?" So
the people of Quraish could not refuse Ibn Ad-Daghina's protection, and
they said to Ibn Ad-Daghina, "Let Abu Bakr worship his Lord in his house.
He can pray and recite there whatever he likes, but he should not hurt us
with it, and should not do it publicly, because we are afraid that he may
affect our women and children." Ibn Ad-Daghina told Abu Bakr of all that.
Abu Bakr stayed in that state, worshipping his Lord in his house. He did
not pray publicly, nor did he recite Quran outside his house.
Then a thought occurred to Abu Bakr to build a mosque in front of his
house, and there he used to pray and recite the Quran. The women and
children of the pagans began to gather around him in great number. They
used to wonder at him and look at him. Abu Bakr was a man who used to weep
too much, and he could not help weeping on reciting the Quran. That
situation scared the nobles of the pagans of Quraish, so they sent for Ibn
Ad-Daghina. When he came to them, they said, "We accepted your protection
of Abu Bakr on condition that he should worship his Lord in his house, but
he has violated the conditions and he has built a mosque in front of his
house where he prays and recites the Quran publicly. We are now afraid that
he may affect our women and children unfavorably. So, prevent him from
that. If he likes to confine the worship of his Lord to his house, he may
do so, but if he insists on doing that openly, ask him to release you from
your obligation to protect him, for we dislike to break our pact with you,
but we deny Abu Bakr the right to announce his act publicly." Ibn
Ad-Daghina went to Abu- Bakr and said, "O Abu Bakr! You know well what
contract I have made on your behalf; now, you are either to abide by it, or
else release me from my obligation of protecting you, because I do not want
the 'Arabs hear that my people have dishonored a contract I have made on
behalf of another man." Abu Bakr replied, "I release you from your pact to
protect me, and am pleased with the protection from Allah."
At that time the Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) was in Makkah, and
he said to the Muslims, "In a dream I have been shown your migration place,
a land of date palm trees, between two mountains, the two stony tracts."
So, some people migrated to Medina, and most of those people who had
previously migrated to the land of Ethiopia, returned to Medina. Abu Bakr
also prepared to leave for Medina, but Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi
Wa Sallam) said to him, "Wait for a while, because I hope that I will be
allowed to migrate also." Abu Bakr said, "Do you indeed expect this? Let my
father be sacrificed for you!" The Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam)
said, "Yes." So Abu Bakr did not migrate for the sake of Allah's Apostle
(Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) in order to accompany him. He fed two
she-camels he possessed with the leaves of As-Samur tree that fell on being
struck by a stick for four months.
One day, while we were sitting in Abu Bakr's house at noon, someone said to
Abu Bakr, "This is Allah's Apostle with his head covered coming at a time
at which he never used to visit us before." Abu Bakr said, "May my parents
be sacrificed for him. By Allah, he has not come at this hour except for a
great necessity." So Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) came
and asked permission to enter, and he was allowed to enter. When he
entered, he said to Abu Bakr. "Tell everyone who is present with you to go
away." Abu Bakr replied, "There are none but your family. May my father be
sacrificed for you, O Allah's Apostle!" The Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa
Sallam) said, "I have been given permission to migrate." Abu Bakr said,
"Shall I accompany you? May my father be sacrificed for you, O Allah's
Apostle!" Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) said, "Yes." Abu
Bakr said, "O Allah's Apostle! May my father be sacrificed for you, take
one of these two she-camels of mine." Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi
Wa Sallam) replied, "(I will accept it) with payment." So we prepared the
baggage quickly and put some journey food in a leather bag for them. Asma,
Abu Bakr's daughter, cut a piece from her waist belt and tied the mouth of
the leather bag with it, and for that reason she was named Dhat-un-Nitaqain
(i.e. the owner of two belts).
Then Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) and Abu Bakr reached a
cave on the mountain of Thaur and stayed there for three nights. 'Abdullah
bin Abi Bakr who was intelligent and a sagacious youth, used to stay (with
them) overnight. He used to leave them before day break so that in the
morning he would be with Quraish as if he had spent the night in Makkah. He
would keep in mind any plot made against them, and when it became dark he
would (go and) inform them of it. 'Amir bin Fuhaira, the freed slave of Abu
Bakr, used to bring the milch sheep (of his master, Abu Bakr) to them a
little while after nightfall in order to rest the sheep there. So they
always had fresh milk at night, the milk of their sheep, and the milk which
they warmed by throwing heated stones in it. 'Amir bin Fuhaira would then
call the herd away when it was still dark (before daybreak).
He did the same in each of those three nights. Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu
'Alaihi Wa Sallam) and Abu Bakr had hired a man from the tribe of Bani
Ad-Dail from the family of Bani Abd bin Adi as an expert guide, and he was
in alliance with the family of Al-'As bin Wail As-Sahmi and he was on the
religion of the infidels of Quraish. The Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa
Sallam) and Abu Bakr trusted him and gave him their two she-camels and took
his promise to bring their two she camels to the cave of the mountain of
Thaur in the morning three nights later. And (when they set out), 'Amir bin
Fuhaira and the guide went along with them and the guide led them along the
sea-shore.
The nephew of Suraqa bin Ju'sham said that his father informed him that he
heard Suraqa bin Ju'sham 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 Apostle and Abu Bakr, a reward equal to their bloodmoney.
While I (Suraqa) 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
(Suraqa) 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
(Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) 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 (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) 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 Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) 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 Apostle
(Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) (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 Makkah 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
(Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) 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
Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) proceeded on his way.
Narrated 'Urwa bin Az-Zubair: Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa
Sallam) met Az-Zubair in a caravan of Muslim merchants who were returning
from Sham. Az-Zubair provided Allah's Apostle a(Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa
Sallam) nd Abu Bakr with white clothes to wear. When the Muslims of Medina
heard the news of the departure of Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa
Sallam) from Makkah (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 some thing, and he saw Allah's Apostle 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 Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa
Sallam) on the summit of Harra. The Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam)
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 Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa
Sallam) sat down and kept silent. Some of the Ansar who came and had not
seen Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) before, began greeting
Abu Bakr, but when the sunshine fell on Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi
Wa Sallam) and Abu Bakr came forward and shaded him with his sheet only
then the people came to know Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa
Sallam). Allah's Apostle stayed with Bani 'Amr bin 'Auf for ten nights and
established the mosque (mosque of Quba) which was founded on piety. Allah's
Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) 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 Apostle 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 Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa
Sallam) said, "This place, Allah willing, will be our abiding place."
Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) 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
Apostle!" Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) then built a
mosque there. The Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) 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."
Bukhari Vol. 5 : No. 245
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