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 gathered his belongings, placed his wife Umm Salama and their young son on his camel, and set out for Madinah; said to be the first Muslim to emigrate. Because he left openly rather than in secret, the Quraysh confronted him on the way with weapons; while conceding he was a free man who could go where he wished, they refused to let his wife or son leave with him, calling the boy their own. When Abu Salama's own tribe heard of this, they marched on the Quraysh in turn and forced a tug-of-war over the two-year-old boy that dislocated his arm; Umm Salama, unable to bear it, told them to let the Quraysh keep him. Abu Salama's tribe took the child, the Quraysh kept Umm Salama, and 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.