1432 — Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Farisi informed us; Ahmad ibn Sa‘id al-Thaqafi informed us; Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhali narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Kathir al-San‘ani narrated to us, from Ma‘mar, from al-Zuhri, from Urwah, from Aisha, who said:

“Then the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, proceeded to a cave in a mountain called Thawr, where the two of them remained for three nights. Abdullah ibn Abu Bakr, a sharp and intelligent young man, would spend the night with them. Before dawn, he would leave them and reach Mecca by morning, appearing among Quraysh as though he had spent the night there. He would hear of no plot being devised against them without retaining it, until he brought them news of it when darkness had fallen. ⦗856⦘

“Amir ibn Fuhayrah, the freedman of Abu Bakr, would pasture for them a flock of sheep and bring it to them after part of the night had passed. They would spend the night with its milk until Amir ibn Fuhayrah drove it away at the first light of dawn. Amir did this throughout those three nights.

“The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and Abu Bakr hired a man from Banu al-Dil, of Banu Adi, as a highly skilled guide—that is, one thoroughly expert in finding the way. He had entered into an alliance with the family of al-As ibn Wa’il, though he remained upon the religion of the disbelieving Quraysh. Yet they trusted him and entrusted their two riding camels to him, arranging to meet him at the Cave of Thawr after three nights. He came to them with their riding camels on the morning after the third night, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, Abu Bakr, Amir ibn Fuhayrah, and the guide from Banu al-Dil set out. He led them by the coastal route.”