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'''Laylat al-Mabīt''' (Arabic: {{ia|لیلة المبیت}}) is the title of the night on which Imam Ali (a) slept in the bed of the Prophet (s) because [[polytheism|Polytheists]] of [[Quraysh]] had plotted to assassinate him. The [[Prophet (s)]] emigrated from [[Mecca]] to [[Medina]] in the night, and Imam Ali (a) slept in his bed, so the assassins would not notice his absence. The [[verse]] 207 of the [[Qur'an 2]] is revealed about the sacrifice of [[Ali (a)]] for saving the life of the Prophet (s).

There is also another report: when the sun started to rise, they feared being exposed by the morning, so they attacked, at the time the houses in [[Mecca]] did not have doors and only curtains were used, when Ali (a) saw them coming to him with drawn swords, and [[Khalid b. al-Walid]] is leading them, Ali (a) jumped to him, took his sword and broke his hand, so Khalid started to jump up and down and yelling like a camel, the others were still on the stairs when Ali (a) went to them with the sword, they fled like a herd of sheep and went to the roof, and suddenly they discovered that this is Ali. "Are you Ali?" they asked. "I am Ali," he replied. They said: "We do not intend you, where is Muhammad?". "I do not know", Ali (a) said. So they got on their horses and camels and went after the Prophet (s).<ref>Ṭūsī, ''al-Amālī'', p. 467.</ref>

As [[Shi'a]]<ref>Ṭabāṭabāyī, ''al-Mīzān'', vol. 2, p. 99-100.</ref> and [[Sunni]]<ref>Ḥākim al-Niyshābūrī, ''al-Mustadrak ʿalā l-ṣaḥīḥayn'', vol. 3, p. 5; ʿAyyāshī, ''Tafsīr al-ʿAyyāshī'', vol. 1, p. 101.</ref> scholars have narrated, the verse 207 of [[Qur'an 2]] is revealed about the night and the sacrifice of Ali (a) for the Prophet (s).

The Prophet (s) said: "Allah told [[Jabra'il]] and [[Mika'il]]: 'I have made you two brothers and made the life of one of you shorter than the other, which one of you would prefer his brother (to live longer)?' both of them disliked the [[death]], then Allah told them: Are not you like My friend, Ali b. Abi Talib?. I made him brother with My Prophet and he preferred him to live then slept in his bed, sacrificing his life for him. Both of you descend to the earth and protect him from his enemies'. Then Jabra'il descended to the top of his head and Mika'il descended to his feet, and Jabra'il said: 'Good for someone like you, O the son of Abu Talib, that Allah is proud of you in front of the angles.'"<ref>Ṣadūq, ''al-Amālī'', p. 469; Fakhr al-Rāzī, ''Mafātīḥ al-ghayb'', vol. 5, p. 174.</ref>

*Ḥākim al-Niyshābūrī, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-. ''Al-Mustadrak ʿalā l-ṣaḥīḥayn''. Edited by Muṣṭafā ʿAbd al-Qādir ʿAṭā. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmīyya, [n.d].