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...an return empty-handed to her tribe, she and her husband agreed to take the orphan child. The transformation began that ver...
...double the standard wages plus additional provisions. He agreed, and traveled north with Khadijah's trusted servant Maysara...
...sense of modesty and did not do so. The reconstruction proceeded without major incident until the moment the rebuilt struc...
... of ritual purity) and metaphorically (the purification of deeds and character required for the one who carries divine reve...
...onsensus on its order of revelation. What is unanimously agreed is that al-Fatiha was among the very early revelations, rev...
... the first child to embrace Islam. Zayd ibn Haritha was a freed slave. Abu Bakr ibn Abi Quhafa was among the most respected...
...ade it accessible for the Prophet ﷺ and the companions who needed to reach it without drawing attention. Dar al-Arqam remai...
...view of those who had the most to lose from his message succeeding. The Quranic response to the rejection at Safa was not ...
...verted without the protection of powerful clans — slaves, freedmen, poor people, and those from minor clans — bore the brun...
...ed families and clans; al-Tufayl should not listen to him. Heeding the warning, al-Tufayl stuffed cotton in his ears before...
...m's reach extended beyond Qurayshi power — and planted the seed of the community's understanding that hijra, migration in t...
...mar. We have submitted to Islam.' The sight of his sister bleeding and refusing to recant broke his certainty. He asked to ...
... existing order against a message that was demonstrably succeeding in changing minds.
... ibn Adi, who had helped end the boycott of Banu Hashim, agreed to extend his formal protection. The Prophet ﷺ also made th...
...rned from Taif in the tenth year of prophethood — beaten, bleeding, having been driven from the city he had hoped would she...
... sixth (who wept, saying the Prophet's ﷺ followers would exceed his own in number), and Ibrahim in the seventh, reclining a...
...loak, to deceive the watchers surrounding the house. Ali agreed. That night the assassins gathered outside, waiting for daw...
... describes the Ansar as those who 'find in their hearts no need for what the emigrants were given, but give preference over...
...h a dream, and prophetic recognition. The Muslim community needed a way to gather for the five daily prayers. Various metho...
...does not leave false speech and action by it, Allah has no need for him to leave his food and drink.' The first Ramadan of...
...ies of recipients in Surah al-Tawbah (9:60): the poor, the needy, those employed to administer zakat, those whose hearts ar...
... Ever-Living), al-Qayyum (the Self-Subsisting Sustainer), freedom from drowsiness or sleep, absolute ownership of all that ...
...ijah. Initially betrothed to Utbah ibn Abi Lahab, she was freed from that betrothal when Surah al-Masad was revealed condem...
... Prophet ﷺ accepted. The shield was sold and its modest proceeds — some narrations say approximately four hundred dirhams —...
...ombat at Badr the previous year. Hind promised Wahshi his freedom in exchange for Hamza's death. Wahshi tracked Hamza throu...
...91) delivered the total prohibition: 'O you who believe, indeed intoxicants, gambling, sacrificing on stone altars, and div...
...ver his face, saying: 'By the Lord of the Kaaba, I have succeeded' — the declaration of joy and success at the moment of ma...
...panions learned she had become the Prophet's ﷺ wife, they freed every captive they held from her tribe — reasoning that the...
...iously been married to Zayd ibn Harithah, the Prophet's ﷺ freed slave and adopted son — a union the Prophet ﷺ himself had a...
...revealed in the aftermath of Hudaybiyyah, opening with: 'Indeed, We have given you a clear conquest' — declaring what looke...
...ollowed within weeks. The ten-year truce the Quraysh had agreed to at Hudaybiyyah had lasted approximately two years before...
... ﷺ recited: 'Truth has come and falsehood has departed — indeed, falsehood is ever departing.' (17:81) Khalid's column enco...
...unding orchards cut down as economic pressure. He offered freedom to any enslaved person who came down from the walls — sev...
...urned voluntarily by the army. Six thousand captives were freed without ransom. The distribution of the material spoils — ...
... public humiliation of the Prophet's ﷺ daughter that also freed her from a household that had become a center of active opp...
...nd we say only what our Lord is pleased with. And we are indeed grieved by your departure, O Ibrahim.' The statement distin...