End of One Torment and Start of Others :
The Quraysh encouraged the foolish ones to throw dirt on the Prophet’s face and head. They used to throw filth and blood and thorns at his door. Ommayah ibn Khalaf used to insult the Prophet until his face became red but still the Prophet would not say anything to him. When a fool threw the dirt in the face of the Messenger of Allah, he entered his house with the dirt still on his head. Lady Fatimah began to clean the dirt from his head and crying and the Messenger of Allah saying: ‘Do not cry my daughter, for Allah will protect your father.’
He also said: ‘The Quraysh could not harm me until Abu Talib died.’ It is related from Khabab who said: ‘I approached the Prophet when he was reclining in the shade of the Ka‘bah. This when we had received some harm from the Polytheists. I said to him: ‘O Messenger of Allah, will you not invoke Allah?’ He sat up red of face and said: ‘Among those who came before you there were those whose skins would be scraped off with
combs of iron down to the bone and this did not divert them from their religion. Allah will complete this matter until a rider may travel from San’a to Hadramaut with nothing to fear but the wolf getting to his sheep.’
His Migration (PUH):
The Quraysh and their allies make the decision that Muhammad must be physically eliminated in order to finish with him and his religion once and for all. But whoever does this would have to deal with the consequences and face the wrath of the respectable Bani-Hashim clan. In order to divide the guilt between as many clans and tribes as possible, forty clans are made to be involved in the task. The best warrior from each clan is chosen for the task. They are instructed to storm the house of Muhammad and every single one of them is to ensure to strike Muhammad with his sword at least once. This is so that if Bani-Hashim, Muhammad’s clan, were to seek revenge for his blood, they would be confronted with forty clans, and thus making it impossible for them to seek any retribution.
The Almighty instructs the Prophet Muhammad to leave for the city of Yathreb, which later became known as Medinat alRasul or the City of the Messenger, or Medina for short.
Hiraa cave (inside look)
The clan of Hashim then felt safe enough to emerge from their quarter and once more mingle with the people. This was in the tenth year of the noble prophethood, circa 620CE. It was less than six months after the end of this trial when Abu Talib passed away. Then the Prophet’s wife Lady Khadijah also died only three days after Abu Talib according to some accounts. The Messenger of Allah was very saddened and named this year the ‘Year of Sorrow’.
The loss of Abu Talib and Lady Khadijah dealt a severe blow to the Prophet at a time when he needed these two most. The death of Abu Talib cleared the last hurdle for the Quraysh, and if the presence of Abu Talib imposed certain limits and drew some red lines for the Quraysh that they could not cross, now his death leaves them free to do what was the unthinkable to the Prophet while Abu Talib was alive. With the death of Abu Talib, the trials meted out by his tribe to the Messenger of Allah grew more naked and audacious.When the Prophet was praying by the Ka‘bah, one of the idolaters approached and violently tried to strangle him.
He also said: ‘The Quraysh could not harm me until Abu Talib died.’ It is related from Khabab who said: ‘I approached the Prophet when he was reclining in the shade of the Ka‘bah. This when we had received some harm from the Polytheists. I said to him: ‘O Messenger of Allah, will you not invoke Allah?’ He sat up red of face and said: ‘Among those who came before you there were those whose skins would be scraped off with
combs of iron down to the bone and this did not divert them from their religion. Allah will complete this matter until a rider may travel from San’a to Hadramaut with nothing to fear but the wolf getting to his sheep.’
His Migration (PUH):
The Quraysh and their allies make the decision that Muhammad must be physically eliminated in order to finish with him and his religion once and for all. But whoever does this would have to deal with the consequences and face the wrath of the respectable Bani-Hashim clan. In order to divide the guilt between as many clans and tribes as possible, forty clans are made to be involved in the task. The best warrior from each clan is chosen for the task. They are instructed to storm the house of Muhammad and every single one of them is to ensure to strike Muhammad with his sword at least once. This is so that if Bani-Hashim, Muhammad’s clan, were to seek revenge for his blood, they would be confronted with forty clans, and thus making it impossible for them to seek any retribution.
The Almighty instructs the Prophet Muhammad to leave for the city of Yathreb, which later became known as Medinat alRasul or the City of the Messenger, or Medina for short.
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