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13 BH Revelation of Surah al-Fatiha

...ng the very early revelations, revealed in Mecca before the Hijra, and that it is the surah around which the entire practice ...

9 BH Conversion of al-Tufayl ibn Amr al-Dawsi

...e. He persisted with patience for years. By the time of the Hijra, he had gathered a substantial group of Daws — approximatel...

Rajab, 8 BH First Migration to Abyssinia

... and planted the seed of the community's understanding that hijra, migration in the cause of Allah, was a legitimate and bles...

Rajab, 7 BH Second Migration to Abyssinia

The first migration to Abyssinia had taken approximately fifteen Muslims across...

Rajab, 4 BH Death of Abu Talib

...ity. That search would ultimately lead to Medina and to the Hijra — the defining migration of Islamic history.

4 BH Return to Mecca under the Protection of Mutim ibn Adi

... return to Mecca, his continued mission, and ultimately the Hijra was given by a man who never became Muslim, honored in perp...

2 BH Presenting Islam to the Tribes at Mecca

...n two years had produced the two Pledges of Aqaba — and the Hijra became possible. The years of rejection by the powerful tri...

Dhul-Hijjah, 1 BH First Pledge of Aqabah

...make the Second Pledge of Aqabah — the pledge that made the Hijra possible. The First Pledge of Aqabah was the pivot between ...

1 BH Mus'ab ibn Umayr Sent to Medina as Teacher

...ed full political protection for the Prophet ﷺ and made the Hijra possible. Musab himself died as a martyr at Uhud — his body...

Dhul-Hijjah, 1 BH Second Pledge of Aqabah

...roximately 622 CE) — the final pilgrimage season before the Hijra. Seventy-three men and two women from Yathrib slipped away ...

1 Rabi al-Awwal, 1 AH The Hijrah: Migration to Medina

The Hijra — the Prophet's ﷺ migration from Mecca to Yathrib in the fi...

12 Rabi al-Awwal, 1 AH First Friday (Jumu'ah) Prayer

... Jumu'ah prayers in Yathrib approximately a year before the Hijra, gathering the nascent community at Asad ibn Zurara's house...

1 AH Building of Masjid al-Nabawi

...ld change to Mecca approximately seventeen months after the Hijra. Three doors were made, and a covered area — the suffah — ...

1 AH Constitution of Medina

Shortly after the Hijra — within the first year according to most scholars — the Pr...

1 AH Institution of the Adhan (Call to Prayer)

...ayer — was instituted in Medina in the first year after the Hijra through a mechanism that combined community deliberation, d...

Sha'ban, 2 AH Change of Qiblah from Jerusalem to Mecca

...hanged from Jerusalem to Mecca in the second year after the Hijra, approximately seventeen months after the Prophet's ﷺ arriv...

2 AH Zakat Prescribed as Obligation

... was made obligatory in Medina in the second year after the Hijra. It is one of the five pillars of Islam and the foundationa...

Sha'ban, 2 AH Death of Uthman ibn Maz'un

... Muslims, had migrated to Abyssinia twice, and had made the Hijra to Medina. He died of illness, not in battle — the first de...

Ramadan, 2 AH Death of Ruqayyah, Daughter of the Prophet

... for Islam — Uthman and Ruqayyah were the first to make the Hijra to Abyssinia, and among those who made the second Hijra as ...

Shawwal, 2 AH Expulsion of Banu Qaynuqa

...as one of three Jewish tribes resident in Medina before the Hijra, occupying a fortified commercial quarter where they practi...

7 AH Return of the Abyssinian Emigrants

...slim community had no power and no territory. Two waves of emigration had sent approximately a hundred companions to Abyssinia — ...

9 AH Year of Delegations (Am al-Wufud)

The ninth year of the Hijra is known as Sanat al-Wufud — the Year of Delegations — beca...

Dhul-Hijjah, 9 AH Abu Bakr Leads the Hajj

In the ninth year of the Hijra, the Prophet ﷺ appointed Abu Bakr al-Siddiq to lead the Haj...

Rajab, 9 AH Death of the Negus (al-Najashi) of Abyssinia

... to Islam had been documented in the seerah from the first emigration. When Jafar ibn Abi Talib spoke before his court and recite...

Sha'ban, 9 AH Death of Umm Kulthum, Daughter of the Prophet

...Mecca to Utba ibn Abi Lahab, a son of Abu Lahab, before the Hijra. When Surah al-Masad was revealed condemning Abu Lahab by n...

Dhul-Hijjah, 10 AH The Farewell Pilgrimage (Hajjat al-Wada')

...his lifetime. He had been in Mecca for the years before the Hijra and had performed Umrah multiple times during the Medinan p...