George Sale, The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated into English immediately from the original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, taken from the most approved Commentators. To which is prefixed A Preliminary Discource (1734)

And retires to Medina.
From Abu Becr’s house Mohammed and he went to a cave in mount Thûr, to the south east of Mecca, accompanied only by Amer Ebn Fobeirah, Abu Becr’s servant, and Abd’allah Ebn Oreitah, an idolater, whom they had hired for a guide. In this cave they lay hid three days to avoid the search of their enemies, which they very narrowly escaped, and not without the assistance of more miracles than one; for some say that the Koreish were struck with blindness, so that they could not find the cave; others, that after Mohammed and his companions were got in, two pidgeons laid their eggs at the entrance, and a spider covered the mouth of the cave with her web ¹, which made them look no farther ², Abu Becr seeing the prophet in such imminent danger became very sorrowful, whereupon Mohammed comforced him with these words, recorded in the Korân ³, Be not grieved, for God is with us. Their enemies being retired, they left the cave and set out for Medina, by a by-road, and having fortunately, or as the Mohammedans tell us, miraculously, escaped some who were sent to pursue them, arrived safely at that city; whither Ali followed them in three days, after he had settled some affairs at Mecca ⁴.

Builds a mosque and house there.
The first thing Mohammed did after his arrival at Medina, was to build a temple for his religious worship; and a house for himself, which he did on a parcel of ground which had before served to put camels in, or as others tell us, for a burying ground, and belonged to Sabal and Soheil the sons of Amru, who were orphans ⁵. This action Dr. Prideaux exclaims against, representing it as a flagrant instance of injustice, for that, says he, he violently dispossessed these poor orphans, the sons of an inferior artificer (whom the author he quotes ⁶ calls a carpenter) of this ground, and so founded the first fabric of his worship with the like wickedness as he did his religion ⁷. But to say nothing of the improbability that Mohammed should act in so impolitic a manner at his first coming, the Mohammedan writers set this affair in a quite different light; one tells us that he treated with the lads about the price of the ground, but they desired he would accept it as a present ⁸; however, as historians of good credit assure us, he actually bought it ⁹, and the money was paid by Abu