In June 622 CE, warned of a plot to assassinate him, Muhammad S.A.W secretly escaped out of Mecca with Abu Bakr.[4] Muhammad S.A.W and his followers immigrated to the city of Yathrib, 320 kilometres (200 mi) north of Mecca, in several steps. Yathrib was soon renamed Madinat un-Nabi, literally the City of the Prophet, but un-Nabi was soon dropped, so its name in English is Medina, meaning the city.[5] The Muslim year during which the Hijra occurred was designated the first year of the Islamic calendar by Umar in 638 or 17 AH (anno hegirae = in the year of the hijra).[5] In the following chronology[5] the city will be referred to as Medina, and the region surrounding it as Yathrib.
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