Departure from the Cave of Thaur (Hazrat Musleh Mau’d’s (ra) Narration)
Hazrat Musleh-e-Maud (ra) states:
“After waiting two days in the cave, according to the agreed plan, the mounts were brought near the cave in the night and the Holy Prophet (sa) and his companions set out on fleet camels. The Holy Prophet (sa) and the guide were mounted on one of the camels.”
It is also mentioned in the narrations that both were mounted on one camel and according to other narrations there were three camels. In any case, “Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) and his servant, Aamir bin Fuhairah were mounted on the other camel. Just before departing for Medina, the Holy Prophet (sa) turned towards the direction of Mecca – the holy city which was his birthplace, where his advent took place and the place where his ancestors from the time of Hazrat Ishmaelas had been living. The Holy Prophet (sa) cast a final glance and addressed the city with great anguish, ‘O city of Mecca, you are more beloved to me than all the places of the world, but your people have not allowed me to live here.’ At that time, Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) said with great regret, ‘These people have exiled their prophet. Indeed they shall be destroyed.’”
(Dibachah Tafsir-ul-Quran, Anwar-ul-Ulum, Vol. 20, pp. 223-224) (Ibn Hisham, Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah, p. 344, Hijrat al-Rasul (sa), Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 2001)