The spider's web across the mouth of the cave of Thawr

نسج العنكبوت على باب غار ثور

c. 13 September 622 CE · c. 1 Rabi' I 1 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Ghar Thawr (Cave of Thawr)

Ibn Hajar, in the biography of Kurz ibn Alqama al-Khuza'i, transmits from Urwa ibn al-Zubayr that Kurz followed the tracks of the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr to the cave of Thawr, saw a spider's web across its door, and said: the trail ends here; I do not know whether they took the right hand, the left, or climbed the mountain 1. This is a report transmitted through later narrators; the early account of the three nights in the cave is in event/ghar-thawr.

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Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate

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Ghar Thawr (Cave of Thawr)

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Ghar Thawr (Cave of Thawr)
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The three nights in the cave of Thawr
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Muhammad· Abu Bakr al-Siddiq

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The Hijra· The three nights in the cave of Thawr· The Prophet's escape from his house on the night of the Hijra and the hiding in the cave of Thawr· Mecca· Abu Bakr leads the prayers during the final illness· The conversion of Abu Quhafa· Abu Sufyan's mission to Medina· The three years of the secret call

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  1. al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p.304
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The Hijra

The migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE, the event from which the Islamic calendar is counted.