Bara bin Azib reported,

Abu Bakr came to my father at his house and bought a saddle from him. He said to Azib, "Send your son to carry it with me."So I carried it with him, and my father went out to receive its price. My father said to him, "Abu Bakr, tell me how the two of you managed when you traveled by night with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."He said, "Yes. We traveled through the night and on into the next day until the sun reached its zenith and the road was empty, with no one passing by. Then a tall rock came into view for us, casting a shadow that the sun had not yet reached. So we stopped beside it, and I prepared a place for the Prophet ﷺ with my own hands for him to sleep on, and I spread out a fur covering on it. I said, 'Sleep, Messenger of Allah, and I will keep watch around you.'So he slept, and I went out to keep watch around him. Then I saw a shepherd coming toward the rock with his flock, wanting from it what we had wanted.I said to him, 'Whose servant are you, boy?'He said, 'I belong to a man from the people of Madinah,' or 'Makkah.'I said, 'Is there milk in your flock?'He said, 'Yes.'I said, 'Will you milk some for me?'He said, 'Yes.'So he took hold of a sheep, and I said, 'Brush the udder clean of dust, hair, and dirt.'"Zuhayr said, I saw Bara striking one of his hands against the other, demonstrating the brushing."He milked a small amount of milk into a wooden bowl for me. I had with me a water skin that I carried for the Prophet ﷺ to drink from and to perform ablution with. I came to the Prophet ﷺ, but I was reluctant to wake him, so I arrived just as he was waking up. I poured some water onto the milk until its lower part became cool, then I said, 'Drink, Messenger of Allah.'He drank until I was satisfied, then he said, 'Is it not time to set off?'I said, 'Yes indeed.'So we set off after the sun had passed its zenith, and Suraqa bin Malik pursued us. I said, 'We have been overtaken, Messenger of Allah.'He said, 'Do not grieve, indeed Allah is with us' [Tawbah 9:40].The Prophet ﷺ supplicated against him, and his horse sank into the ground up to its belly," I think he said, "in firm ground." Zuhayr was uncertain."He said, 'I see that the two of you have supplicated against me, so supplicate for me, and by Allah, I pledge to turn back any pursuit from you.'So the Prophet ﷺ supplicated for him and he was saved. Then he did not meet anyone without saying, 'I have already taken care of this area for you,' so he turned back everyone he met."He said, "And he kept his word to us."

حدثنا محمد بن يوسف حدثنا أحمد بن يزيد بن إبراهيم أبو الحسن الحراني حدثنا زهير بن معاوية حدثنا أبو إسحاق سمعت

البراء بن عازب يقول

جاء أبو بكر رضي الله عنه إلى أبي في منزله فاشترى منه رحلا فقال لعازب ابعث ابنك يحمله معي قال فحملته معه وخرج أبي ينتقد ثمنه فقال له أبي يا أبا بكر حدثني كيف صنعتما حين سريت مع رسول الله ﷺ قال نعم أسرينا ليلتنا ومن الغد حتى قام قائم الظهيرة وخلا الطريق لا يمر فيه أحد فرفعت لنا صخرة طويلة لها ظل لم تأت عليه الشمس فنزلنا عنده وسويت للنبي ﷺ مكانا بيدي ينام عليه وبسطت فيه فروة وقلت نم يا رسول الله وأنا أنفض لك ما حولك فنام وخرجت أنفض ما حوله فإذا أنا براع مقبل بغنمه إلى الصخرة يريد منها مثل الذي أردنا فقلت له لمن أنت يا غلام فقال لرجل من أهل المدينة أو مكة قلت أفي غنمك لبن قال نعم قلت أفتحلب قال نعم فأخذ شاة فقلت انفض الضرع من التراب والشعر والقذى قال فرأيت البراء يضرب إحدى يديه على الأخرى ينفض فحلب في قعب كثبة من لبن ومعي إداوة حملتها للنبي ﷺ يرتوي منها يشرب ويتوضأ فأتيت النبي ﷺ فكرهت أن أوقظه فوافقته حين استيقظ فصببت من الماء على اللبن حتى برد أسفله فقلت اشرب يا رسول الله قال فشرب حتى رضيت ثم قال ألم يأن للرحيل قلت بلى قال فارتحلنا بعدما مالت الشمس واتبعنا سراقة بن مالك فقلت أتينا يا رسول الله فقال {لا تحزن إن الله معنا} فدعا عليه النبي ﷺ فارتطمت به فرسه إلى بطنها أرى في جلد من الأرض شك زهير فقال إني أراكما قد دعوتما علي فادعوا لي فالله لكما أن أرد عنكما الطلب فدعا له النبي ﷺ فنجا فجعل لا يلقى أحدا إلا قال قد كفيتكم ما هنا فلا يلقى أحدا إلا رده قال ووفى لنا