Saying
I am a free man; I am leaving for Yathrib.
Said to the Quraysh when they confronted him with weapons as he tried to leave Makkah for Madinah with his wife and son.
Abu Salama is said to have been the first Muslim to emigrate to Madinah. He gathered his belongings, placed his wife Umm Salama and their young son on his camel, and set out. He did not know how the Quraysh would react, so he left openly rather than in secret.
The Quraysh confronted him on the way with their weapons. They agreed that he was a free man who could go where he wished. But they said his wife belonged to them, and they refused to let her or her son leave with him. So Abu Salama was forced to go on without his family.
When Abu Salama's own tribe heard what had happened, they marched on the Quraysh. They said the woman could stay with the Quraysh, but the boy belonged to them. Both sides pulled at the two-year-old boy until his arm was dislocated. Umm Salama could not bear it and cried out for them to let the other side take him.
In the end, Abu Salama's tribe took the child and the Quraysh kept Umm Salama. Abu Salama went on to Madinah alone.
It is said that this episode is the reason later emigrants left Makkah in secret rather than openly.
Other events recorded in 1 BH. Their order within the year is not established; use the storyline above for the sequence.
I am a free man; I am leaving for Yathrib.
Said to the Quraysh when they confronted him with weapons as he tried to leave Makkah for Madinah with his wife and son.