The lesson
- To spare his persecuted followers he sent them to Abyssinia, to a king who harmed no one. Quraysh then besieged Banu Hashim in the valley of Abu Talib for two or three years, with a boycott document hung in the Ka'ba; termites ate all of it except the words Bismika Allahumma, as the Prophet had told Abu Talib, and the siege ended (al-Sira al-Nabawiyya of Ibn Hisham; Tarikh-i Tahlili-yi Islam of Shahidi). Soon after, Khadija and Abu Talib passed away (Tarikh al-Tabari).
- When Quraysh resolved in Dar al-Nadwa that young men from every clan would kill him together, he left Mecca by God's command while Ali slept in his bed; he hid three days in the cave of Thawr and reached Quba in Rabi al-Awwal of the first year of the Hijra (622 CE), the reports differing on the day. Ali returned the trusts left with the Prophet and followed with Sayyida Fatima and the women of the family (Tarikh-i Tahlili-yi Islam of Shahidi).
- In Medina he built his mosque, helping with the building himself, and made a pact of brotherhood between the Emigrants and the Helpers, taking Ali as his own brother (al-Sira al-Nabawiyya of Ibn Hisham).
Questions
When Quraysh plotted to kill the Prophet, where did he hide for three days before reaching Quba?
During the boycott of Banu Hashim, what did the termites do to the document hung in the Ka'ba?
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