Musnad Ahmad 3

Translation

✧ We set out and traveled by night, hastening through our day and night until we emerged into the open, and the midday heat stood still. I cast my eyes around to see if I could find a shade to seek shelter in, and there I saw a rock. I made my way to it, and there was a remnant of its shade, so I smoothed it for the Messenger of God ﷺ, spread a fur for him, and said: "Lie down, O Messenger of God." So he lay down. Then I went out to see if I could find anyone from the pursuers. There I saw a shepherd of sheep and said: "To whom do you belong, O boy?" He said: "To a man of Quraysh"—he named him, and I recognized him, and said: "Is there any milk in your sheep?" He said: "Yes." I said: "Will you milk some for me?" He said: "Yes." I ordered him, and he restrained a sheep from among them. Then I ordered him, and he shook the dust from its udder. Then I ordered him, and he shook his hands from the dust. I had a waterskin with a cloth over its mouth, and he milked a portion of milk for me. I poured [i.e., water] onto the bowl until its bottom cooled, then I came to the Messenger of God ﷺ and found him awake. I said: "Drink, O Messenger of God." He drank until I was satisfied. Then I said: "Is it time to set out?" He said, so we departed, while the people were seeking us, but none of them caught up with us except Suraqah b. Malik b. Ju'shum on a horse of his. I said: "O Messenger of God, the pursuer has caught up with us." He said: "Do not grieve; God is with us." When he drew near to us and there was between us and him the distance of a spear, or two, or three, I said: "O Messenger of God, this pursuer has caught up with us," and I wept. He said: "Why do you weep?" I said: "By God, I do not weep for myself, but I weep for you." Then the Messenger of God ﷺ supplicated against him and said: "O God, suffice us against him with what You will." So the legs of his horse sank into hard ground up to its belly, and he jumped off it and said: "O Muhammad, I know this is your doing, so ask God to deliver me from what I am in. By God, I will blind those behind me among the pursuers. Here is my quiver; take an arrow from it, for you will pass by my camels and sheep in such-and-such a place, so take what you need from them." The Messenger of God ﷺ said: "I have no need of them." He supplicated for him, and he was released, and he returned to his companions. The Messenger of God ﷺ went on, and I was with him until we arrived in Madinah. The people met him, coming out into the road and onto the rooftops. The servants and children in the road shouted: "God is greatest! The Messenger of God ﷺ has come! Muhammad has come!" The people disputed over which one of them he would stay with. The Messenger of God ﷺ said: "Tonight I will stay with the Banu al-Najjar, the maternal uncles of 'Abd al-Muttalib, to honor them by that." When morning came, he went where he had been commanded. Al-Bara' b. 'Azib said: "The first of the Emigrants who came to us was Mus'ab b. 'Umayr, the brother of the Banu 'Abd al-Dar. Then Ibn Umm Maktum, the blind, the brother of the Banu Fihr, came to us. Then 'Umar b. al-Khattab came to us with twenty riders, and we said: 'What has happened to the Messenger of God ﷺ?' He said: 'He is right behind me.' Then the Messenger of God ﷺ came, and Abu Bakr was with him." Al-Bara' said: "The Messenger of God ﷺ did not come until I had recited some surahs of the Mufassal." Isra'il said: "Al-Bara' was one of the Ansar, from the Banu Harithah." So it is in the edition of the Islamic Treasure Society, and what is in brackets is not present in the edition of the Risalah Foundation. So it is in the edition of the Islamic Treasure Society, and in the edition of the Risalah Foundation: "the departure."

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