When Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) and Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) departed from Makkah Mukarramah on the occasion of the hijrah, the Quraish publicly announced that if any person kills or captures Muhammed (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) or Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu ‘anhu), then for each of the two, he will receive the reward of one hundred camels.

Suraaqah bin Maalik narrates:

“I was sitting in my usual place when a man came up to me and said, “I saw a few people departing along the coastal route. I feel that these people are Muhammed (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) and his companions.”

Suraaqah continues:

“I knew, in my heart, that these people were definitely Muhammed and his companions. However, since I feared that this person, or some other person who heard this information, may acquire the reward from the Quraish, I delayed him by saying the following, “The people you saw were not Muhammed (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) and his companions – they were some other people,”