Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) informed those people, "When we were in the cave, I said to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), 'If any one of them looks down towards his feet, he will see us beneath his feet.' The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, 'What do you think about two men whose third is Allah, the Exalted?'"

Lady Aisha Siddiqa (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) sought permission from the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) to leave Makkah. When the situation worsened, the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: Be patient. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) submitted: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Do you expect that you will also be granted permission? The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: I hope so. Then Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) kept waiting for you, until one day the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) at the time of Zuhr. He called Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and said to him: Send out those who are with you. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) submitted: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Only my two daughters are here. The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Do you know that I have been granted permission to depart (migrate)? Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) submitted: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Will I be with you? The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: You will accompany me. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) submitted: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! I have two camels. I have prepared them for departure. Lady Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) gave one of the two camels to the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). It was called Jad‘a. Both of them rode on it and came to a cave, which was in the mountain called Thawr. Both of them hid in it. ‘Amir bin Fuhayrah, the slave of Abdullah bin Tufail, who was the brother of Lady Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) from her mother’s side and was under the favor of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), so none of the shepherds could suspect anything about this. He would go to them in the morning, come to Makkah in the evening, and then come to them again in the last part of the night. When both of them departed from there, he also walked quickly with them, until they all reached Madinah Munawwarah.

Abdur Rahman bin Malik, who is the nephew of Sayyiduna Suraqah bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him), narrates: His father informed him of this incident. He heard Sayyiduna Suraqah narrate: The messengers of the disbelievers of Quraysh came to us at Rasaa’. They had set a reward for anyone who would kill or capture the Prophet (peace be upon him) and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Suraqah narrates: I was sitting in a gathering of my tribe, Banu Mudlij. Meanwhile, a man came and stood before us. He said: O Suraqah, a short while ago I saw the silhouettes of some men heading towards the coast. I think they are Muhammad (peace be upon him) and his companion. Suraqah says: I also realized that it must be them. I said: Those people are not them; you must have seen so-and-so and so-and-so. They have passed by us. Then I stayed in that gathering for a little while, then I got up and went to my house. I told my slave girl to bring out my horse; it was behind a hillock. She had prepared it for me. I took my spear and left from the back of the house. I drew lines on the ground with it. I turned the upper part of the spear downwards until I reached my horse and mounted it. I kept riding my horse until I saw the silhouettes of those people. When I got close enough that my voice could reach them, my horse stumbled and I fell off. I reached for my bow and took out the arrows used for divination. I drew one of the arrows, and the result came out as something I did not like. I did not accept the decision of the divination and mounted my horse again, then spurred it on until I heard the recitation of the Prophet (peace be upon him). The Prophet (peace be upon him) was not looking around, but Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was looking around a lot. Both forelegs of my horse sank into the ground up to its knees, and I fell off. I scolded it and got up, but its legs did not come out of the ground. Then when it stood upright, at that moment a bright smoke appeared in the sky.

The narrator named Mu’ammar says: He asked the narrator named Abu Amr, what is meant by the word ‘Uthaan’ here? He remained silent for a while, then said: It means the smoke that is not caused by fire. Mu’ammar narrates: Zuhri has narrated in his version these words: I again drew an arrow for divination, and the result came out as something I did not like, which was that I should not harm those people. I called out to both of them with a guarantee of safety, so both of them stopped. I rode my horse and came to them. When I stopped short of reaching them (i.e., my horse was unable to go further), it occurred to me that the matter of the Prophet (peace be upon him) would soon prevail. I said: Your people have set a reward for you. I informed them about their situation and what people intended regarding them, and I offered them provisions and supplies for the journey, but they did not accept it and only said to me: Keep our matter hidden. I requested you to write a document for me in which the promise of reward was mentioned. The Prophet (peace be upon him) ordered Amir bin Fuhayrah, so he wrote it for me on a piece of white leather.

Sayyiduna Bara’ (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Sayyiduna Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) bought a saddle from my father for thirteen dirhams. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said to Sayyiduna ‘Azib (may Allah be pleased with him):“Instruct Bara’ to carry it and deliver it to my house.”So Sayyiduna ‘Azib said to him:“That will not happen until you tell us what happened to you when you and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) left Makkah and the polytheists were searching for you.”Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said:“We set out from Makkah. We traveled all night, until when the day broke, I looked to see if there was any shaded place where we could take shelter. There was a rock there. I went to it, and it had a little shade. I prepared the ground there and spread a bedding for the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), then I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)! Lie down.’ The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) lay down. Then I looked around to see if I could spot anyone searching for us. There I saw a shepherd coming towards the rock with his sheep. He too wanted to benefit from the shade of the rock as I did, that is, he wanted to come into the shade. I asked him: ‘Whose (servant or slave) are you?’ The young man said: ‘I am the slave of so-and-so.’ He mentioned the name of a man from Quraysh whom I knew. I asked: ‘Do your sheep have milk?’ He replied: ‘Yes!’ I said: ‘Will you milk one for me?’ He said: ‘Yes.’ I instructed him, so he took one of his sheep. I told him to clean the dust from its teats, then I told him to wipe his hands clean. Then the narrator demonstrated by striking one hand against the other. Then he milked a bowl of milk for me. I had brought a vessel with me for the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), with a cloth tied over its mouth. I poured (water) over the milk until the lower part became cool. I went to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and found that he had woken up. I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)! Please drink this.’ The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) drank it. I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)! It is time to depart.’ Then we set out. People were searching for us, but none of them could reach us. Only Suraqah bin Malik, riding his horse, reached us. I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)! A searcher has reached us.’ Then I began to weep. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: ‘Do not grieve. Indeed, Allah is with us.’ When he came close to us, and there was only the distance of two or three spears between us and him, I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)! This searcher has come very close to us.’ I wept again. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked: ‘Why are you weeping?’ I said: ‘By Allah! I am not weeping for myself, but I am weeping for you.’ The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) prayed against him, saying: ‘O Allah! Deal with him as You will for us.’ The narrator says: The horse of that man sank into the ground up to its belly. The man dismounted and said: ‘O Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)! I know that this is your doing. Pray to Allah that He saves me from this calamity that has befallen me. By Allah! I will mislead those searching for you who are behind me. Here is my quiver; take an arrow from it. You will pass by my camels and sheep at such-and-such a place; take from them whatever you need.’ The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: ‘We have no need of your camels.’ The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) prayed for him, so he returned to his companions, and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) continued on until we reached Madinah at night. There was disagreement among the people about where the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) would stay. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: ‘Tonight I will stay with Banu Najjar. They are the maternal relatives of ‘Abdul Muttalib. I will honor them in this regard.’

(Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates:) When we reached Madinah, the people came out into the streets. Children and servants were on the rooftops of the houses, saying: ‘Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) has arrived! The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) has arrived!’ The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) continued walking until he camped at the place where he was commanded to. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) prayed facing Bayt al-Maqdis for sixteen or perhaps seventeen months. He wished that his direction be changed towards the Ka‘bah. Allah revealed this verse:“We see the turning of your face towards the sky. We shall surely turn you to a Qiblah that will please you, so turn your face towards al-Masjid al-Haram.”The narrator says: Some foolish people (the narrator says: by this is meant the Jews) said: ‘What has turned them away from the Qiblah they used to face?’ So Allah revealed this verse:“Say: The East and the West belong to Allah. He guides whom He wills to a straight path.”

The narrator says: A man who had prayed with the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) passed by some Ansar who were in the bowing position during the ‘Asr prayer, facing Bayt al-Maqdis. He testified to them, saying: He had prayed behind the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and the Prophet’s direction had been changed towards the Ka‘bah. So they immediately turned around and faced the Ka‘bah. Sayyiduna Bara’ (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The first of the Muhajirun to come to us was Sayyiduna Mus‘ab bin ‘Umayr (may Allah be pleased with him), who belonged to Banu ‘Abd ad-Dar. We asked him: ‘How is the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)?’ He replied: ‘The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) is in his place, but his companions are following behind me.’ After him came Sayyiduna ‘Amr bin Umm Maktum, the blind man (may Allah be pleased with him), who belonged to Banu Fihr. We asked him: ‘How are the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and his companions behind you?’ He replied: ‘They are following behind me.’ After that, Sayyiduna ‘Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him), Sayyiduna Sa‘d bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him), Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin Mas‘ud (may Allah be pleased with him), and Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) came to us. Then Sayyiduna ‘Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) came to us, riding with twenty of his companions. After them, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) came to us, accompanied by Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sayyiduna Bara’ (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Before the arrival of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) in Madinah, I had already learned the detailed Surahs. Then we set out to confront the (enemy’s) caravan, but we found them already on guard.

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: When the Muhajirun came from Makkah to Madinah, they arrived in such a state that they had nothing with them, whereas the Ansar had land and property. Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates, so the Ansar agreed with them that every year they would give half the produce of their land to the Muhajirun, and the Muhajirun would work in their place. The narrator states: The mother of Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) presented some bunches of dates to the service of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave them to his slave woman Umm Ayman, who was the mother of Sayyiduna Usamah bin Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him). When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) returned to Madinah after being finished with the people of Khaybar, the Muhajirun returned the gifts to the Ansar which they had given them as gifts of fruit, etc. Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) also returned the bunches of dates to my mother, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave his own garden to Sayyidah Umm Ayman (may Allah be pleased with her) in its place.

Abu Ishaq narrates: People went out to perform the prayer for rain (Salat al-Istisqa). Among them was Sayyiduna Zayd bin Arqam. There was only one person between me and him. I asked, "In how many battles (Ghazwat) did you participate?" Here, the narrator named Ibn Kathir has narrated these words: "O Abu Amr! In how many battles did the Prophet (peace be upon him) participate?" He replied: "In nineteen (19) battles." I asked, "In how many battles did you participate with the Prophet (peace be upon him)?" He replied: "In seventeen (17)." I asked, "Which was the first battle?" He said, "Dhu Ushayrah" (the narrator is in doubt, perhaps these are the words) "Usayrah." Then Abdullah bin Zayd led the people in two units (rak‘ahs) of prayer.

Sayyiduna Bara’ (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was of medium height. His chest was broad, and his hair reached his earlobes. I saw him wearing a red cloak, and I have never seen anyone more beautiful than him.

Sayyiduna Bara’ (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was the most beautiful of all. In his appearance and character, he was the best. He was neither very tall nor short in stature.

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The complexion of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was wheat-colored.

Abu Ishaq narrates: A man asked Sayyiduna Bara’ (may Allah be pleased with him): Was the blessed face of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) like a sword (shining)? He replied: No! Rather, it was like the moon (shining).