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HOW PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH) REACHED MEDINA
REFUTATION OF THE CLAIM THAT THE PROPHET TOOK OVER THE MEDINA
AND ENTERED FORCEFULLY
It was the Prophets wise practice to meet the delegates of the
Arabian tribes by night so
that the hostile Makkans would not debar him from achieving his
objectives. In pursuit ofthe same objective of spreading the
message of Islam, the Prophet and his Companions
passed by Aqabat Mina where they heard people talking. They went
at their heels until theyencountered six men from Yathrib (the old
name of Medina), all of whom from Khazraj tribe.
Prophet gave them the message of Islam and all of them accepted
Islam as the Madinese(the people of Medina) always heard the Jews
say that a Prophet was about to rise.
It was the pilgrimage season in the eleventh year of Prophet
Hood. Those six men from
Medina promised to communicate the Message of Islam to their
townsfolk.
The following year, on the occasion of the pilgrimage, a group
of twelve disciples fromMedina ready to acknowledge Muhammad as
their Prophet avowed their faith in Muhammad
[pbuh] as a Prophet and swore: "We will not worship anyone but
one Allah; we will notsteal; neither will we commit adultery, nor
kill our children; we will not utter slander,
intentionally forging falsehood and we will not disobey you in
any just matter." This pledge
was called The First Aqabah Pledge.
After the Pledge the Prophet [pbuh] sent to Musab bin Umair
(pbuh) to Medina, the first
Muslim ambassador to teach the people there the doctrines of
Islam, give them practicalguidance and make attempts at propagating
the Islam among those who still professed
polytheism.
Asad bin Zurarah hosted him in Medina. So prepared was the
ground, and so zealous thepropagation that the Islam spread rapidly
from house to house and from tribe to tribe in
Medina.
The next year, thirteenth of Prophet Hood, June 622 A.D., during
the pilgrimage season,over seventy converts from Medina came in the
trail of their polytheist people to perform
the rituals of pilgrimage in Makkah. The oft-repeated question
amongst them was "Isnt ithigh time we protect Muhammad instead of
leaving him forsaken, deserted and
stumbling in the hillocks of Makkah?"
Shortly after arrival, they conducted clandestine contacts with
the Prophet [pbuh] andagreed to meet him secretly at night in mid
Tashreeq Days (the 11th, 12th and 13th days ofDhul Hijja) in a
hillock at Al-Aqabah, the last years meeting place.
They waited for the Messenger of Allah [pbuh] until he came in
the company of his uncleAl-Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib who (though
himself not a Muslim), adjured us not to draw his
nephew away from the protection of his own kindred unless we
were fully prepared todefend him even at the risk of our lives. He
was the first to speak:
"O you people of the Khazraj (the Arabs used to call the
Ansr(Helpers) Khazraj,
whether from Khazraj or Aws), you all know the position that
Muhammad holds
among us. We have protected him from our people as much as we
could. He is
honored and respected among his people. He refuses to join any
party except you.So if you think you can carry out what you promise
while inviting him to your
town, and if you can defend him against the enemies, then assume
the burden thatyou have taken. But if you are going to surrender
him and betray him after having
taken him away with you, you had better leave him now because he
is respectedand well defended in his own place."
Kab replied: "We have heard your words, and now O Messenger of
Allah, it is for you to
speak and take from us any pledge that you want regarding your
Lord and yourself.
The Messenger of Allah then preached the Faith, and the pledge
was taken. Al-ImamAhmad, on the authority of Jabir, gave the
following details: The Ansr(Helpers) asked the
Messenger of Allah about the principles over which they would
take a pledge. The Prophetanswered:
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1. To listen and obey in all sets of circumstances.2. To spend
in plenty as well as in scarcity.
3. To enjoin good and forbid evil.4. In Allahs service, you will
fear the censure of none.
5. To defend me in case I seek your help, and debar me from
anything you debar yourself,your spouses and children from. And if
you observe those precepts, Paradise is in store for
you.
This pledge was called The Second Aqabah Pledge. And then the
prophet migrated to
Medina.
Conclusion:
It is clear that when Islam approached to the people of Medina,
they thought that we cannot
leave the prophet in between the prosecutions and dangers of the
Quraish in Mecca, so theytook the custody of the prophet and the
Muslims, and brought them to Medina. That is why
they are calledAnsar, the Helpers.
