One of the examples of the courage of Imam Ali (peace be upon him): Sleeping in the bed of the Prophet (Allah's prayers be upon him and upon his holy Household).

The month of Rabi' Awwal included a series of historical events of the Islamic nation. Among these events was the night when Imam Ali (peace be upon him) slept in the bed of the Prophet (Allah's prayers be upon him and upon his holy Household) that was on the first of this month in the year 13 of the Prophetic Mission, which is one of the examples of the courage and redemption of the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him).

The people of Quraysh saw they are in danger, they jointly made a firm determination to take the Prophet Mohammad by surprise and kill him on his bed. So all of them gathered and choose one person from each family s that every tribe gets involved in getting the Prophet (Allah's prayers be upon him and upon his holy Household) killed and then no one could take the revenge of him.

The Prophet Mohammad (Allah's prayers be upon him and upon his holy Household) has come to know about this conspiracy through revelation, he informed Ali, who cried out of fear for the Holy Prophet. But the Messenger of Allah has ordered him to sleep on his bed. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) asked: And your life will be safe if I sleep in your bed? "Yes" replied the Holy Prophet "This is what Allah has promised me!" Imam Ali (peace be upon him) was delighted and happy to know that the Prophet will be safe, he slept reassured in the bed of the Holy Prophet covering himself with Holy Prophet's Yamani coat without hesitation.

The Almighty Allah has informed the Prophet of their plans and ordered him to leave Makkah and migrate but if they see that his bed is empty, they will understand that he has left and follow him so that they can carry out their evil plan. The Prophet needed someone to sleep on his bed so that when they look through the window, they will think that it is Him. It was very dangerous situation because the men could kill Imam Ali instead by mistake. And the firm and definite answer of Imam Ali (peace be upon him) has gone down in history as an example of how ready he was to sacrifice all for the cause of Islam.

Ali (peace be upon him) slept that night on the bed of the Prophet (Allah's prayers be upon him and upon his holy Household) risking to be killed. The Qurayshi came to carry out their conspiracy and when they were about to put their swords in the sleeping body without a single doubt that it was Mohammad sleeping, Imam Ali (peace be upon him) retaliated in their face, defeating them and obliging them to disperse and run away.

Before his migration, the Prophet (Allah's prayers be upon him and upon his holy Household) ordered him to call on the people of Makkah after his departure: "Whoever had a trust or a deposit, let him come and we will give it to him back." Then he added: "Nobody will dare to do you any harm, so give the deposits to people in public."

And after that the Holy Prophet (Allah's prayers be upon him and upon his holy Household) arrived at the outskirts of Medina, where he stopped to wait for the arrival of Ali Ibn Abi Taleb (peace be upon both of them) as he has ordered him to join him.

The Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him) came out of Makkah escorting the three Fatimas heading towards Madina, and they were: Fatima daughter of the Holy Prophet (Allah's prayers be upon him and upon his holy Household), his mother Fatima daughter of Asad Ibn Hashem, and his Aunt Fatima daughter of Zubayr Ibn Abd al-Muttalib. A group of masked men from Quraysh followed them, but Imam Ali (peace be upon him) recognised them and told them: "I am going to join my cousin, he who is pleased that chop his meat and shed his blood he can follow me or get closer to me" Then he walked his small caravan of the three Fatimas worshipping Allah day and night.

When they arrived to the outskirts of Madina joining the Holy Prophet (Allah's prayers be upon him and upon his holy Household), the following verse was revealed: {And their Lord responded to them, "Never will I allow to be lost the work of [any] worker among you, whether male or female; you are of one another. So those who emigrated or were evicted from their homes or were harmed in My cause or fought or were killed - I will surely remove from them their misdeeds, and I will surely admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow as reward from Allah, and Allah has with Him the best reward."} (3:195). The Prophet (Allah's prayers be upon him and upon his holy Household) read this verse to them as the "male" in it is Ali (peace be upon him) and the "female" are the three Fatimas. Then he said to Ali: O Ali, you are the first from this nation who believed in Allah and His Messenger and the first to migrate to Allah and His Messenger and the last one who has met His Messenger. He does not love -I swear By God- but he whose heart's belief has been tested by Allah, and does not hate but a hypocrite or an unbeliever."
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