78 results for “ain”
Clear filterThe Zamzam well — the sacred spring that had sustained Hajar and her infant son Ismail in the barren valley of M...
... (prophetic light) of the final Prophet, passed through a chain of blessed ancestors. Women of Mecca who perceived this lig...
...e father of the final Prophet for the brief span of life remaining to him. Abdullah set out for a trading journey to Gaza ...
...igns accompanying his birth are preserved across multiple chains of narration. His mother Aminah reported that at the momen...
...ep came home fat and full of milk while their neighbors' remained thin and dry. Other families began following Halimah's sh...
...is childhood in the desert with Halimah al-Sa'diyyah, and again on the Night of Isra and Mi'raj. Both instances are documen...
...ears — Aminah, Halimah, and Umm Ayman — was the only one remaining. The Quran addresses this directly: "Did He not find you...
...andchildren, and he could feel it without being able to explain it. He had experienced divine signs throughout his own life...
... powerful clan backing, and that the weak had no recourse against the strong. They gathered, dipped their hands in water us...
...ﷺ participated in carrying stones from the surrounding mountains, and the seerah records a notable detail: when his uncle s...
...th) in a small cave — Ghar Hira — on Jabal al-Nur (the Mountain of Light), approximately three kilometers from the Sacred M...
...het ﷺ left the cave trembling with fear, descended the mountain, and went directly to Khadijah. "Cover me, cover me," he sa...
...h in Islam: "By Allah, Allah will never humiliate you. You maintain family ties. You speak the truth. You bear others' burd...
...ah revealed — specifically because it is the first that contains a command to action. The two revelations serve different f...
...ng of the prophetic mission. Others, drawing on different chains of narration, place it later. Ibn Kathir and al-Suyuti in ...
...d the first school, where the Prophet ﷺ transmitted and explained the newly revealed Quranic verses and began instructing h...
... I told you that a cavalry was coming from behind this mountain to attack you, would you believe me?" They said yes — ackno...
...m publicly in Mecca, the Quraysh leadership moved swiftly against the early Muslim community. Those who had converted witho...
...the Prophet ﷺ pray, he reconsidered: as a man of literary training, he was capable of judging good speech from bad. He remo...
... to Allah, the God his nephew had described, asking for certainty and guidance. By morning, the doubt had resolved into con...
...l ruin, and even those from respected families suffered sustained pressure and ostracism. The Prophet ﷺ saw his community b...
...of his sister bleeding and refusing to recant broke his certainty. He asked to see what they had been reading, washed as di...
...under conditions of systematic persecution that had made remaining in Mecca incompatible with practicing Islam. The roster...
...leading Qurayshi clans formalized a comprehensive boycott against Banu Hashim and Banu Muttalib — the clans of the Prophet ...
...m protector in Islamic history. The Quraysh could not act against the Prophet ﷺ so long as Abu Talib lived, because doing s...
...nd affirm it without hesitation — and the woman who had sustained the mission from its terrifying first moment through twen...
... of the most moving prayers in the seerah: 'O Allah, I complain to You of my weakness, my insufficient means, and my insign...
...had been among those who had torn up the economic boycott against the Banu Hashim years earlier — he was not a hostile man,...
...his own in number), and Ibrahim in the seventh, reclining against the Bayt al-Ma'mur — the celestial Ka'bah circumambulated...
... parties. He stopped at the home of Kulthum ibn Hidm and remained at Quba for approximately fourteen days — some sources sa...
The Prophet ﷺ entered the main settlement of Yathrib on a Friday in Rabi al-Awwal 1 AH, ha...
... comprehensive legislative and theological document: it contains the change of qiblah, the establishment of Ramadan fasting...
... face toward the sky, waiting. The verse came: 'We have certainly seen the turning of your face toward the sky, and We will...
...as it was prescribed upon those before you, that you may attain taqwa.' The fast was defined as abstaining from food, drink...
...tegories address structural conditions that produce and sustain poverty, not merely temporary hunger. The Prophet ﷺ said t...
...-Hayy (the Ever-Living), al-Qayyum (the Self-Subsisting Sustainer), freedom from drowsiness or sleep, absolute ownership of...
...ab — whose son Utbah then divorced her as an act of spite against the Prophet ﷺ before the marriage was consummated. She wa...
...imah's household with Ali was materially poor. She ground grain by hand until her palms were worn. She drew water until the...
...enge for Badr, arriving with approximately 3,000 fighters against a Muslim force of around 700. The Prophet ﷺ positioned th...
...elation of Surah al-Nahl (16:126) descended commanding restraint: 'If you punish, punish with the equivalent of what was do...
...m scouts about the Muslim army's mobilization and decided against turning back. A man from a tribe allied with the Prophet ...
...ayer rather than set them down, and sit with them pressed against his chest. Between the two brothers, companions noted tha...
...tribes, were expelled in Rabi' al-Awwal 4 AH after a plot against the Prophet's ﷺ life. He had visited their agricultural s...
...icted any drinking to narrow nighttime windows and made sustained alcohol use practically incompatible with Muslim life. St...
...tice he established. Before he died he called out a curse against the Quraysh by name, then recited: 'I do not care, when I...
...as the single largest loss of life the Muslim community sustained outside of a formal battle. Abu Bara' Amir ibn Malik, a p...
The expedition against Banu al-Mustaliq in Sha'ban 5 AH began as a pre-emptive s...
...he ifk — the slander — was a false accusation of adultery against Aishah bint Abi Bakr, wife of the Prophet ﷺ, following th...
...ddress the Prophet's ﷺ wives should do so from behind a curtain — a principle of physical privacy for modesty that was then...
...rrying dirt and stone and tying stones to his own abdomen against hunger as they did. The confederate army arrived and was...
...ina from without. Their chief Ka'b ibn Asad had held firm against earlier Qurayshi overtures but was persuaded by Huyayy ib...
...f the greatest of the Ansar — died in 5 AH from a wound sustained during the Battle of the Trench: an arrow struck his brac...
...ad is the Messenger of Allah, and those with him are firm against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves.' Given at Hu...
...pent the years since organizing the confederate coalition against Medina. The Prophet ﷺ led approximately 1,400 fighters no...
...t approximately a hundred companions to Abyssinia — some remained for over a decade, raising children in exile while the Mu...
...ar-catastrophe. He led the Qurayshi cavalry around the mountain, struck the Muslim rear, and broke the formation. Seventy c...
...fought until that was cut off too, then held the standard against his chest until he fell with ninety wounds — all on the f...
...ough revelation and intercepted it. Hatib confessed and explained he had feared for his family in Mecca, having no clan the...
...ever called from that height, over the city that had once chained him in the sun. The 360 idols around the Kaaba were smash...
...eth of Ramadan; by Shawwal the community was being tested again. Victory was not a permanent condition but a perpetual resp...
... most prosperous and defensible cities in the Hijaz, a mountain city with thick walls, catapults, and a population determin...
...n or the intelligence had been overstated. The Prophet ﷺ remained at Tabuk for twenty days, secured treaties with the borde...
... their very souls were confining to them, and they were certain that there was no refuge from Allah except in Him. Then He ...
... worshippers who were elderly, sick, or lived far from the main mosque. The Prophet ﷺ, occupied with Tabuk preparations, sa...
...im political authority in Arabia, the calculus for every remaining tribe changed. The Quraysh had accepted Islam en masse. ...
...roy al-Lat. When Mughirah raised the axe, some Thaqifi men fainted; a woman wailed. The idol was demolished in full public ...
...l-Tawbah were revealed: a declaration that dissolved the remaining treaties with polytheist tribes on specific terms and re...
...ophet's ﷺ message — though his public declaration was constrained by his political situation. The Prophet's ﷺ prayer over h...
... sister Ruqayyah. Ruqayyah had died in 2 AH while Uthman remained with her through her illness at the Prophet's ﷺ command, ...
...rophet's ﷺ refusal to allow his own circumstances, however painful, to become the basis for false religious belief. With I...
...from the first word in the Cave of Hira, completed on the plain of Arafat before 100,000 witnesses. The jurisprudential le...
...by the Prophet ﷺ on the ninth of Dhul-Hijjah 10 AH at the plain of Arafat, during the standing that is the central rite of ...
Surah al-Ma'idah 5:3 contains one of the most theologically significant verses in the Qu...
...cal scholars acknowledge multiple candidates, each with a chain of transmission and contextual argument. The most widely ci...
...samah's father Zayd at Mutah and defended the appointment against criticism was consistent to the end: merit and character ...
... final days together with rare intimacy: his head resting against her, his hand in hers, her softening his siwak with her o...
...ttalib and Ali ibn Abi Talib, feet dragging, head wrapped against the fever — and mounted the pulpit for a final address to...
...porated into the expansion of the mosque; the tomb that contains the Prophet ﷺ, Abu Bakr, and Umar ibn al-Khattab now stand...