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Suraqah ibn Malik of Banu Mudlij heard of the hundred-camel bounty and wanted it alone. He slipped away from his tribe's council, armed, on his finest horse, and ran the fugitives down on the coast road, the account in Bukhari is from Suraqah's own mouth.
As he closed within range, his horse sank into the firm ground up to its knees. He pulled it out, mounted, charged again, and it sank again, dust rising from the pit like smoke. A career raider knew when the ground itself had taken a side; he called out for amnesty. The Prophet ﷺ halted, and the pursuer who had come for the bounty asked instead for a writ of security, which was written for him on a bone or scrap at the Prophet's order.
Then, with Makkah's cavalry still combing the hills behind them, the hunted man made the hunter an offer that must have sounded like madness: "How will you be, O Suraqah, when you wear the two bracelets of Kisra?" The bracelets of the Persian emperor, promised by a refugee with a price on his head, to the man sent to capture him. Suraqah rode back and turned away other pursuers with the practiced lie of a tracker: "This area is covered."
He accepted Islam after the Opening. And in the caliphate of Umar, when the treasures of the fallen Persian empire were laid out in Madinah, Umar summoned Suraqah and put Kisra's bracelets on his wrists before the people, the classical historians record the scene, so the ummah could watch a prophecy close its loop in public.
The Codex keeps this small node deliberately: the Hijrah was not a desperate escape but a procession under escort, and its Protector could spare, mid-flight, a Persian empire's jewelry for the man chasing His Messenger. On the road out of everything, the Prophet ﷺ was distributing the future.