136 results for “Mecca”
...ned Hajar and her infant son Ismail in the barren valley of Mecca — had been sealed and buried for centuries. By the time of ...
...t and most beloved of Abd al-Muttalib's ten sons — famed in Mecca for exceptional beauty and noble character. He had barely e...
... defiled the cathedral in protest, Abraha swore to march on Mecca and demolish the Ka'bah stone by stone. His army was formid...
...ready died and been buried in Medina. Al-Harith returned to Mecca alone. Abdullah died at approximately twenty-five years of ...
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was born in Mecca, in the neighborhood of Banu Hashim, on a Monday in the mon...
When the Prophet ﷺ was born, Mecca's noble families followed the custom of sending infants to ...
...s mother, occurred at a waystation called al-Abwa — between Mecca and Medina — when the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was approximately ...
...s a Lord who will protect it." His death was mourned across Mecca. The Prophet ﷺ cried openly following his grandfather's bod...
...ximately nine to twelve years old, he traveled north with a Meccan trading caravan to Syria (Bilad al-Sham) — accompanying hi...
...he existing social compact. In response, the leading men of Mecca from multiple clans — Hashim, Muttalib, Asad, Zuhrah, Taym ...
...venant made in the house of Abdullah ibn Jud'an al-Taymi in Mecca, involving noble men from multiple Qurayshi clans including...
... twenty-five years old, Khadijah bint Khuwaylid — a wealthy Meccan businesswoman and twice-widowed merchant — approached him ...
...twenty-eight to forty-five. She was a wealthy and respected Meccan businesswoman, twice-widowed, who had initiated the propos...
... — when the Prophet ﷺ was about thirty-five — the Ka'bah in Mecca was damaged by flood and fire, and the Quraysh undertook a ...
...), approximately three kilometers from the Sacred Mosque in Mecca. The cave sits near the peak of the mountain, a modest natu...
...oses." He predicted that the Prophet ﷺ would be driven from Mecca, pledged that if he lived to see that day he would support ...
...already predicted that the Prophet ﷺ would be driven out of Mecca. The revelation of al-Muddaththir was the divine acknowledg...
... among classical scholars. Some place it among the earliest Meccan revelations — close to the beginning of the prophetic miss...
... of this period represent an extraordinary cross-section of Meccan society. Khadijah bint Khuwaylid — the Prophet's wife and ...
...he primary gathering place of the early Muslim community in Mecca during the secret period of the dawah and continuing into t...
...ched openly in the Ka'bah's courtyard and in the markets of Mecca — reciting Quran, condemning polytheism, and calling people...
When the Prophet ﷺ began preaching Islam publicly in Mecca, the Quraysh leadership moved swiftly against the early Mus...
...d poet of the Daws tribe in southern Arabia who traveled to Mecca during the pilgrimage season, where the Quraysh intercept h...
...amza ibn Abd al-Muttalib was the most formidable warrior in Mecca — the Prophet's uncle and near-contemporary in age, renowne...
...he fifth year of prophethood, the persecution of Muslims in Mecca had become systematic and inescapable. Slaves were tortured...
...killing the Prophet ﷺ. He was one of the most feared men in Mecca — physically imposing, intellectually confident, deeply inv...
...itions of systematic persecution that had made remaining in Mecca incompatible with practicing Islam. The roster of the seco...
...u Hashim community withdrew to a valley on the outskirts of Mecca called Shi'b Abi Talib and lived there for approximately th...
...e man whose tribal authority made the thirteen years of the Meccan mission possible. He was not a Muslim, in the classical sc...
...the Prophet's ﷺ wives. She was buried in Jannat al-Mu'la in Mecca. In the years after her death, the Prophet ﷺ spoke of her w...
...l anchor and the domestic anchor of the Prophet's ﷺ life in Mecca. The Quraysh tested the new situation immediately: a man th...
...ndants people who will worship Allah alone.' He returned to Mecca under the tribal protection of Mut'im ibn Adi — a non-Musli...
...ission — he faced a practical crisis: he could not re-enter Mecca without tribal protection. Arabian custom required that a m...
During the pilgrimage seasons of the late Meccan period — after the death of Abu Talib and Khadijah had lef...
The Isra' wal-Mi'raj — the nocturnal journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and the ascent through the seven heavens — is ...
...ed the first Jumu'ah prayer in Yathrib. When he returned to Mecca with the next delegation the following year, he brought sev...
...ab was one of the most fashionable and wealthy young men in Mecca — known for expensive clothes and fine perfume, from the Ab...
As Muslims began leaving Mecca for Yathrib after the Second Pledge of Aqabah, the Quraysh ...
The Hijra — the Prophet's ﷺ migration from Mecca to Yathrib in the first days of Rabi al-Awwal (approximatel...
...s longer — waiting also for Ali, who had remained behind in Mecca to return property the Prophet ﷺ had held in trust. During...
... Jerusalem — the practice at the time — and would change to Mecca approximately seventeen months after the Hijra. Three door...
...: the formal brotherhood pairing each Muhajir (migrant from Mecca) with an Ansari (helper of Medina). The pairings were made ...
...with a contractual and faith-based one — uniting clans from Mecca and Medina that had historically been rivals under a single...
...bah — the Abyssinian freed slave who had endured torture in Mecca for saying 'Ahad, Ahad' — became the first muadhdhin in Isl...
...panning much of the Medinan period. Unlike the concentrated Meccan surahs addressing faith and spiritual formation, Surah al-...
...h — the direction of prayer — was changed from Jerusalem to Mecca in the second year after the Hijra, approximately seventeen...
...in 2 AH, becoming the first of the Muhajirun (migrants from Mecca) to die in Medina and the first companion to be buried in a...
...it. Abu Sufyan rerouted the caravan safely and sent word to Mecca for the army to return. Abu Jahl insisted they continue to ...
...ajor battle between the Muslim community and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Quraysh came seeking revenge for Badr, arriving with a...
.... Hind bint Utbah herself accepted Islam at the conquest of Mecca and received the Prophet's ﷺ pardon — one of the most extra...
...y he had never seen the like of. Abu Sufyan withdrew toward Mecca. The Quran commended those who marched to Hamra al-Asad in...
...killed immediately. Three were taken captive and marched to Mecca: Khubayb ibn Adi, Zayd ibn al-Dathina, and a third. They we...
...would, within two years, produce a community that conquered Mecca without a siege.
...eerah. The Prophet ﷺ led approximately 1,400 Muslims toward Mecca for Umrah (the lesser pilgrimage) — in pilgrimage garments,...
...oment of crisis. The Prophet ﷺ had sent Uthman ibn Affan to Mecca as his envoy during the treaty negotiations; when Uthman's ...
...he Treaty of Hudaybiyyah created a political ceasefire with Mecca — the Prophet ﷺ dispatched formal letters to the major rule...
...ontier (the Battle of Mutah followed within a year), toward Mecca (the Conquest came a year after that), and ultimately towar...
The first Muslims to emigrate from Mecca had fled to Abyssinia in the fifth year of prophethood, see...
...y of Hudaybiyyah had required the Muslims to turn back from Mecca. The treaty had stipulated that the Quraysh would vacate th...
... In Safar 8 AH — barely eight months before the Conquest of Mecca — Khalid made his way to Medina and took his shahada. The P...
...tand in the mosque and declare protection for the people of Mecca himself, which would at least give him something to report....
The Conquest of Mecca on the twentieth of Ramadan 8 AH was the defining moment of...
...f Hunayn in Shawwal 8 AH — just weeks after the Conquest of Mecca — was a severe test of the largest Muslim army ever assembl...
...liance, pay tribute, or accept Islam. After the Conquest of Mecca and the Battle of Hunayn had removed the last major militar...
...if were among the last major holdouts after the Conquest of Mecca and the Battle of Hunayn. They had withstood the Muslim sie...
...— the first pilgrimage organized under Muslim governance of Mecca. Abu Bakr departed with approximately three hundred pilgrim...
... Prophet's ﷺ daughters by Khadijah. She had been married in Mecca to Utba ibn Abi Lahab, a son of Abu Lahab, before the Hijra...
... was born in Dhul-Hijjah 8 AH — the year of the Conquest of Mecca — and was the Prophet's ﷺ only son to survive birth after t...
...ajj the Prophet ﷺ performed in his lifetime. He had been in Mecca for the years before the Hijra and had performed Umrah mult...
...nvoking the triple sacred frame of Arafat, Dhul-Hijjah, and Mecca. He abolished all outstanding interest from the time of Jah...
...ife Hajar and his infant son Ismail in the barren valley of Mecca — an act of trust in Allah that led, by divine provision, t...
...eir child to the barren, waterless valley that would become Mecca. Ibrahim left them there, trusting in Allah's provision. Wh...
...t began with the first human being. Muhammad ﷺ was born in Mecca around 570 CE, in the Year of the Elephant, into the noble ...
... exceptional. The Muhajirun — those who had made Hijra from Mecca — asked: "Is Salman one of us?" The Ansar — the people of M...
... his bay'ah and established a rival center of opposition in Mecca. Husayn received letters from the people of Kufa urging him...
...d supported the Zubayrid claim to the caliphate centered in Mecca. Marwan ibn al-Hakam, a cousin of Uthman and experienced Um...
...ended the monument to redirect pilgrimage traffic away from Mecca, which was then under Zubayrid control. Modern historians d...
...n the nascent Muslim community of Medina and the Quraysh of Mecca. On 17 Ramadan, 2 AH, approximately 313 Muslims faced a Qur...
The Battle of Uhud was fought one year after Badr when the Quraysh, smarting from their defeat, returned with an army of approximately 3,000 to confront the Mus
The Conquest of Mecca stands as one of the most remarkable events in Islamic hist...
...e Battle of Hunayn took place shortly after the Conquest of Mecca when the Hawazin and Thaqif tribal confederacy mobilised to...
...n, who had repeatedly violated truces including attacking a Mecca-bound caravan, was personally executed by Saladin. Around 2...
...tably with local merchants. Abu Sufyan had marched out from Mecca but turned back after two days, claiming the drought made f...
...Mansa Musa of Mali becoming legendary for his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324. Cities like Timbuktu became world-renowned centers...
...rtresses, and becoming the protectors of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
...eror of the Mali Empire, undertook his famous pilgrimage to Mecca with a caravan of 60,000 people and enormous quantities of ...
... to Ottoman control of Syria, Egypt, and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The Ottoman sultan assumed the role of protecto...
Sharif Hussein of Mecca launched the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule during World ...
...e new state became the custodian of the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina. The discovery of oil in 1938 transformed the ki...
... first of several massive expansions of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina to accommodate the growi...
Armed followers seized al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, declaring their companion as the Mahdi. The two-week siege...
...vernment undertook massive expansions of Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina. From accommodating thousand...
Leader of Quraysh who accepted Islam at the conquest of Mecca.
The mufti of Mecca among the Tabiin, known for his vast knowledge of Hajj ritu...
A leading muhaddith and scholar of Mecca, teacher of ash-Shafii and many hadith masters.
Known as Imam al-Haramayn for his years teaching in Mecca and Medina. A leading Ash'ari theologian and Shafi'i jurist...
Egyptian Shafi'i jurist and author of Tuhfat al-Muhtaj, one of the two most relied-upon late Shafi'i fiqh references. Also wrote az-Zawajir on major sins and al
A prolific Hanafi scholar of Mecca who authored Mirqat al-Mafatih, the most extensive commenta...
Ethiopian-born Shafi'i scholar who settled in Mecca and became a leading authority in Shafi'i fiqh and Ash'ari ...
... most influential Southeast Asian Islamic scholar, based in Mecca, whose commentaries on classical texts are still widely use...
Mufti of the Shafi'i school in Mecca and historian, author of works on Prophetic biography and t...
Paternal uncle of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and one of the most vehement opponents of Islam, the only individual condemned by name in the Quran in Surah al-Masad (111)
The chief leader of Qurayshi opposition to the Prophet ﷺ, known as the 'Pharaoh of this Ummah', killed at the Battle of Badr.
Wife of Abu Lahab and sister of Abu Sufyan, condemned in Surah al-Masad (111:4) as a 'carrier of firewood' for her active role in persecuting the Prophet ﷺ.
Qurayshi persecutor who placed the intestines of a slaughtered animal on the Prophet ﷺ during prayer, and was executed after the Battle of Badr.
Wealthy and influential Qurayshi leader whose arrogant rejection of the Quran is directly addressed and rebuked in Surah al-Muddaththir (74:11-26).
Wife of Abu Sufyan who fiercely opposed Islam before the Conquest of Makkah, later accepted Islam and became a companion. She is known for her role at the Battl
Qurayshi enemy who mocked the resurrection and was killed by the Prophet ﷺ personally at Uhud — one of only three individuals the Prophet ﷺ killed directly in b
Qurayshi intellectual opponent who sought to counter the Quran with Persian tales and mocked its divine origin, executed after the Battle of Badr.
The mother of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, who died when he was six years old.
The grandfather of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and chief of the Quraysh, who raised him after his mother's death.
The father of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, who died before his son's birth on a trading journey to Medina.
The learned Christian cousin of Khadijah who recognized the Prophet's first revelation as the same Namus (Jibril) who came to Musa AS.
...ed among the most severe torture for his faith in the early Meccan period.
The Meccan leader who tortured Bilal ibn Rabah and was killed at the ...
A prominent Meccan leader and father of Hind bint Utbah who tried to negotiat...
A powerful Meccan elder who was directly addressed in the Quran (Surah al-Mu...
The Abyssinian viceroy of Yemen who marched with elephants to destroy the Ka'bah and was destroyed by Allah's army of birds — in the year the Prophet ﷺ was born
A major Meccan Tabieen scholar who was a student of Ibn Abbas and Ibn Uma...
A Meccan Tabieen scholar and one of the most important hadith trans...
... poignant figures of the Hudaybiyyah Treaty. He escaped his Meccan captors to reach the Prophet but was handed back under the...
A Qurayshi Muslim who was handed back to Mecca under the Hudaybiyyah Treaty but escaped, establishing a Mu...
Prolific Indonesian-Meccan Shafi'i scholar, author of numerous widely-read Arabic wor...
The most distinguished student of Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah in Mecca and one of the earliest teachers of Imam al-Bukhari. Author...
Companion who made the first female migration (hijra) from Mecca to Medina alone, prompting Quranic revelation.
Greatest Meccan exegete of the Tabi'un and foremost student of Ibn Abbas. ...
...kkan hadith Imam who became the supreme hadith authority in Mecca, teacher of al-Shafi'i and many other great scholars.
...and transmitted extensively from the companions residing in Mecca.
...ransmitted from the scholars and companions associated with Mecca and its environs.
The fifth pillar of Islam. The rites, conditions, and spiritual significance of the annual pilgrimage.
The rites of Umrah: ihram, tawaf, sa'i, and the differences from Hajj. A step-by-step guide.
The Prophet's miraculous night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem, and his ascension through the seven heavens.
The peaceful liberation of Mecca: 10,000 Muslims marching, the general amnesty, and the clea...
How scholars distinguish between surahs revealed in Mecca and Medina, their distinctive themes, styles, and content, ...