concerning the Verse: 'Do not prevent them' (2.232) Ma'qil bin Yasar told me that it was revealed in
his connection. He said, "I married my sister to a man and he divorced her, and when her days of 'Idda
(three menstrual periods) were over, the man came again and asked for her hand, but I said to him, 'I
married her to you and made her your bed (your wife) and favored you with her, but you divorced her.
Now you come to ask for her hand again? No, by Allah, she will never go back to you (again)!' That
man was not a bad man and his wife wanted to go back to him. So Allah revealed this Verse: 'Do not
prevent them.' (2.232) So I said, 'Now I will do it (let her go back to him), O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)."So he
married her to him again.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 67, Hadith 66
Some Muslim men emigrated to Ethiopia whereupon Abu Bakr also prepared himself for the
emigration, but the Prophet (ﷺ) said (to him), "Wait, for I hope that Allah will allow me also to emigrate."
Abu Bakr said, "Let my father and mother be sacrificed for you. Do you hope that (emigration)?" The
Prophet said, 'Yes." So Abu Bakr waited to accompany the Prophet (ﷺ) and fed two she-camels he had on
the leaves of As-Samur tree regularly for four months One day while we were sitting in our house at
midday, someone said to Abu Bakr, "Here is Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), coming with his head and a part of his
face covered with a cloth-covering at an hour he never used to come to us."
Abu Bakr said, "Let my father and mother be sacrificed for you, (O Prophet)! An urgent matter must
have brought you here at this hour." The Prophet (ﷺ) came and asked the permission to enter, and he was
allowed. The Prophet (ﷺ) entered and said to Abu Bakr, "Let those who are with you, go out." Abu Bakr
replied, "(There is no stranger); they are your family. Let my father be sacrificed for you, O Allah's
Apostle!"
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I have been allowed to leave (Mecca)." Abu Bakr said, " I shall accompany you, O
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), Let my father be sacrificed for you!"
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Yes,"
Abu Bakr said, 'O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)s! Let my father be sacrificed for you. Take one of these two shecamels
of mine" The Prophet (ﷺ) said. I will take it only after paying its price."
So we prepared their baggage and put their journey food In a leather bag. And Asma' bint Abu Bakr
cut a piece of her girdle and tied the mouth of the leather bag with it. That is why she was called Dhatan-
Nitaqaln. Then the Prophet (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr went to a cave in a mountain called Thour and remained
there for three nights. `Abdullah bin Abu Bakr. who was a young intelligent man. used to stay with
them at night and leave before dawn so that in the morning, he would he with the Quraish at Mecca as
if he had spent the night among them. If he heard of any plot contrived by the Quraish against the
Prophet and Abu Bakr, he would understand it and (return to) inform them of it when it became dark.
'Amir bin Fuhaira, the freed slave of Abu Bakr used to graze a flock of milch sheep for them and he
used to take those sheep to them when an hour had passed after the `Isha prayer. They would sleep
soundly till 'Amir bin Fuhaira awakened them when it was still dark. He used to do that in each of
those three nights.
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 77, Hadith 25