For three nights they hide in the cave while Quraish offer 100 camels for each of them. ‘Abdullah bin Abi Bakr brings news each night and ‘Amir bin Fuhairah brings milk. When the searchers reach the cave’s mouth, the Prophet ﷺ calms Abu Bakr: what do you think of two when Allah is the third?
As the book dates it: Friday, Saturday and Sunday after the departure
What do you think of those two with whom the Third is Allah.
Who was there
- ABAbu Bakr as-SiddiqThe Prophet’s close friend, who believed on the very first day of the call, hid with him in the cave of Thawr, and led the prayer in his last days.
- ABAsma’ bint Abi BakrAbu Bakr’s daughter, called ‘she of the two waistbands’ for tying up food for the Hijrah.
- AF‘Amir bin FuhairahAbu Bakr’s freed slave, who brought goats’ milk to the cave each evening and then travelled with them to Madinah.
- AB‘Abdullah bin Abi BakrAbu Bakr’s son, who brought news from Makkah to the cave of Thawr each night.