Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq — Page 39
14 A Daring Plan T hat very night, the disbelievers surrounded the house of the Holy Prophet sa , with the plan to attack him in the morning and kill him. The Holy Prophet sa asked his young cousin and devoted companion, Hadrat ‘Al i ra , to lie down in his bed and then wrapped his own cloak around him. The Holy Prophet sa assured him that no harm would come to him. Thus the Quraish assumed that the Holy Prophet sa was lying asleep in his bed. But in fact the Holy Prophet sa had left his house during the night, and had started his journey away from Makkah with Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra. When the Quraish found Hadrat ‘Al i ra in the bed in the morning they realised that their plan had failed.