1) Stay away from Mecca: Now Abdul Muttalib has a dangerous task. The Prophet (PBUH) was very popular with his mother, maternal grandfather and paternal grandfather. Abdul Muttalib has lost his most beloved son Abdullah and his daughter Wahb has also become a widow two months after marriage. The product of the marriage is a very beautiful boy. But the importance of protecting him for his parents is also clear. He is not safe in the environment of Mecca, which is the place where the pilgrimage caravans travel, so a solution must be thought of. The solution is to keep him away from Mecca, and that too secretly and away from the eyes of foreigners. Therefore, the Prophet is entrusted to a nurse to keep him in a land far from Mecca and in secret.
Looking at the pages of history, we find that historians have mentioned reasons for entrusting the Prophet to a nurse, such as the lack of breast milk, the bad climate and its unsuitability for children, and Arab customs, all three of which can be easily criticized. :
a) It is clear that if the Prophet's mother did not have milk, they should have hired a nurse from the people of Mecca to raise him with them.
b) How long was the climate of Mecca unsuitable? Did this bad weather last for five years? There is no evidence from history that the climate of Mecca was bad during those years. Moreover, if this was the case, the Meccans or at least their children would have all migrated to other lands, which did not happen.
c) If the custom of the people of Mecca was to entrust their children to nurses, then why did other Arabs entrust their children to nurses? Even those who were born at the same time as the Prophet (PBUH) or after him were not entrusted to nurses. It is said that the Prophet was breastfed by his mother Hamza for a while. Why was Hamza, who was two months older than the Prophet, not given to a nurse? Furthermore, the baby was only breastfed for two years, so why was the Prophet sent to Halimah for five years? So, as mentioned earlier, since it is common for strangers to enter and leave Medina, it is easy to assassinate people in the city; hence, the only way forward for Abdul Muttalib is to make the Prophet absent.
But why did Abdul Muttalib return Muhammad (PBUH) to Mecca after five years? There are reasons for this in history, including the famous hadith (Shaq Sadr) which states: When the Prophet was with Halimah, he was going to the shepherd with his children. One day, a man came and cut Muhammad's chest and took out a clot of blood and said: This is Satan's share from you. Then he washed the place in a golden basin with Zamzam water and left. The children ran to Halimah and shouted that Muhammad had been killed.
After that, Halima returned him to his grandfather and said to Abdul Muttalib: I cannot take care of your child because he has been possessed. Abdul Muttalib also accepted him. It seems that this hadith was fabricated to lose the main line of the story. In fact, the reason for the Prophet's return to Mecca was that they had identified the Prophet and wanted to take him with them. Other hadiths also confirm this. That area was no longer safe. Therefore, Halima was no longer able to protect the Prophet.
If the Jews had also asked Prophet Moses (peace be upon him) the name of the wet nurse, they would have found him in the first week. It took five years to find the Prophet only because of the Jews' poor information in this regard. Probably, when they found the Prophet, there was a security vacuum in the work of maintaining information about the Prophet in Mecca. From then on, Abdul Muttalib became the Prophet's guardian.
2) Continuous protection: After Halima returned the Prophet to Abdul Muttalib, he personally took over the Prophet's protection. Abdul Muttalib's behavior shows that the importance of protecting this child was very clear to him, because he would even take him with him to the meetings of the Dar al-Nduh and put him in his place.
After Abdul Muttalib, the protection of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) was entrusted to Abu Talib. He gave up trading for four years until a famine struck Mecca. Abu Talib went into trading and took the Prophet (PBUH) with him, and the incident of Bahira occurred. There are so many differences in the narration of the story of Bahira that it shows that they want to distort and trivialize this story in a way that shows that they want to distort and trivialize it, while this story is very insightful in revealing two things: 1. The dissemination of information about the Prophet at that time and the volume of discussion about it was very abundant. 2- The extent of the danger of the Jews to the Prophet was to the extent that Bahira also knew this and asked Abu Talib to return him to his city so that the Jews would not lay hands on him, because he was not a librarian. Who does not know that he was born and if they see him, they will definitely recognize him.
Bahira's warning is a sense of danger for the Prophet. The Jewish hostility towards the Prophet is so great that Bahira, who is a Christian scholar, also understands it and thinks that Abu Talib is unaware of it. Abu Talib returns the Prophet from there and it is interesting that after that seven Jews came to Bahira to assassinate the Prophet. The important thing is that after this incident, Abu Talib never traveled.
Abu Talib spared no effort in supporting the Prophet (PBUH). He would eat food at the table before the Prophet to see if it was poisoned, then he would put it in front of the Prophet. He would sleep next to Muhammad at night and make the children sleep next to him so that if they tried to assassinate him at night, he would wake up. Abu Talib first went everywhere himself to make sure that there were no enemies. The Prophet (PBUH)'s situation remained the same until he was 25 years old. At this age, the Prophet asked for a trade. Now he is a young man who no longer has the courage to assassinate him, and of course the Imam is certainly aware of the Jewish plan. The Jewish plans to prevent the birth of the Imam and assassinate him failed and they moved on to the next stage of their operation, which was to prevent the spread of Islam and the conquest of Jerusalem by the Imam.
