163 results for “medina”
... fell ill on the return, staying with maternal relatives in Medina for about a month before dying at approximately twenty-five...
...ut incident. It was on the return that Abdullah fell ill in Medina, stopping to rest at the home of his maternal uncles from t...
...came to me." His father Abdullah had died months earlier in Medina; he was born an orphan, never to know his father's voice or...
...occurred at a waystation called al-Abwa — between Mecca and Medina — when the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was approximately six years o...
...pproximately seventy to eighty households — and led them to Medina to join the Prophet ﷺ. Among those in his caravan was a you...
...ophet ﷺ led the companions in the funeral prayer for him in Medina — the only recorded instance of salat al-gha'ib in his prop...
...of Persia and Byzantium, and his martyrdom in the mosque of Medina in 23 AH. The conversion of Umar, together with that of Ham...
...eath. The Prophet ﷺ later led the funeral prayer for him in Medina — the only salat al-gha'ib recorded in the prophetic career...
...existential necessity. That search would ultimately lead to Medina and to the Hijra — the defining migration of Islamic histor...
...eccan phase and forced the opening of what would become the Medinan mission: the search for a new base led eventually to six m...
...e men from the Khazraj tribe who would initiate the path to Medina.
... an unexpected direction: six men from the Khazraj tribe of Medina, who had heard of the coming prophet from their Jewish neig...
...First Pledge of Aqabah was the pivot between the Meccan and Medinan phases of the mission.
After the First Pledge of Aqabah (approximately 621 CE), the Prophet ﷺ sent one man with the Yathrib delegation to teach and establish the Muslim community in t
...ical entity with a territorial base — the compact that made Medina — the first Islamic state — possible, and transformed Islam...
...e luminous than the day the Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived in Medina.' The city was renamed al-Madinah — the City — and over his...
The Prophet ﷺ entered the Medinan region not through the city but through Quba, a settlement...
...riday prayer (Salat al-Jumu'ah) led by the Prophet ﷺ in the Medinan region took place on the Friday immediately following his ...
...e luminous than the day the Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived in Medina.' The women and children of the Ansar sang: 'Tala'a al-badr...
... end as shelter for the poor companions who had no homes in Medina. The Ahl al-Suffah (People of the Bench) lived there, learn...
Among the first acts of the Prophet ﷺ in Medina — alongside building the mosque and before the Constitution...
... compact between the Muslims and the various communities of Medina, including the Muhajirin, Ansar, and the Jewish tribes (Ban...
The adhan — the Islamic call to prayer — was instituted in Medina in the first year after the Hijra through a mechanism that ...
...was revealed across multiple occasions spanning much of the Medinan period. Unlike the concentrated Meccan surahs addressing f...
...oximately seventeen months after the Prophet's ﷺ arrival in Medina. The change came through revelation during a prayer at the ...
...kat — obligatory annual almsgiving — was made obligatory in Medina in the second year after the Hijra. It is one of the five p...
Uthman ibn Mazun al-Jumahi died in Medina in 2 AH, becoming the first of the Muhajirun (migrants from...
...erion. Before Badr, the Muslims were a migrant community in Medina, outnumbered and militarily untested. After Badr, they were...
...of Allah after Ibrahim and Lut.' They eventually settled in Medina after the Hijra, where Ruqayyah had previously buried their...
Banu Qaynuqa was one of three Jewish tribes resident in Medina before the Hijra, occupying a fortified commercial quarter ...
...venth of Shawwal 3 AH on the slopes of Mount Uhud, north of Medina — the second major battle between the Muslim community and ...
...arched to Hamra al-Asad, approximately eight miles south of Medina. At night they lit numerous large fires, deliberately visib...
Al-Husayn ibn Ali was born in Sha'ban 4 AH in Medina — the second son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatimah al-Zahra,...
Banu al-Nadir, the second of Medina's three major Jewish tribes, were expelled in Rabi' al-Awwa...
...of the most socially transformative legislative acts in the Medinan period, achieved through a deliberately graduated four-sta...
...Amir ibn Malik, a prominent chief of the Banu Amir, visited Medina and asked the Prophet ﷺ to send teachers to the Najd, pledg...
... al-Harith ibn Abi Dirar, was assembling warriors to attack Medina. The Muslim force surprised the tribe at the well of al-Mur...
..., found her alone, offered her his camel, and walked her to Medina on foot while she rode. The situation gave Abdullah ibn Uba...
...he hijab (covering/modesty) verses were revealed across the Medinan period, with the three primary verses in Surah al-Ahzab an...
...awwal 5 AH was the most dangerous military challenge of the Medinan period — a coalition of approximately 10,000 fighters asse...
Banu Qurayza, the last of Medina's three major Jewish tribes still in the city, broke their ...
... struck his brachial artery while he was fighting to defend Medina from the 10,000-strong confederate coalition. He had prayed...
...l-Qa'dah 6 AH was the pivotal diplomatic achievement of the Medinan period — a ten-year ceasefire with the Quraysh that appear...
...only, but an invitation to all of humanity, dispatched from Medina to the thrones of the world's greatest empires. The diploma...
...efeat of the principal organized Jewish opposition north of Medina — primarily the Banu al-Nadir community expelled from Medin...
... rumors that the Muslims had been weakened by the fevers of Medina. The raml became a permanent Sunnah of tawaf observed in Ha...
...onths before the Conquest of Mecca — Khalid made his way to Medina and took his shahada. The Prophet ﷺ received him with warmt...
... of darkness. Amr ibn Salim al-Khuza'i brought the news to Medina and appealed to the Prophet ﷺ in poetry describing the atta...
...the Muslim-allied Banu Khuza'ah. The Prophet ﷺ marched from Medina with 10,000 fighters — the largest Muslim force assembled t...
...heir trade cut off. Within months they sent a delegation to Medina. They tried to negotiate exemptions from Islamic obligation...
... and Christian communities of the frontier, and returned to Medina. The expedition had advanced the Muslim community's presenc...
...erature. The Prophet ﷺ imposed a social boycott: no one in Medina was to speak to the three men, not even their families. Ka'...
...tions for the Expedition of Tabuk, a group of hypocrites in Medina built a mosque near Masjid Quba and asked the Prophet ﷺ to ...
...e from across the Arabian Peninsula sent representatives to Medina to negotiate alliance, pay tribute, or accept Islam. After ...
...ar later, in Ramadan 9 AH, the Thaqif delegation arrived in Medina to negotiate terms. The negotiation was a study in what Is...
...ysh — died in Rajab 9 AH. The news reached the Prophet ﷺ in Medina. He announced to the companions: 'Your brother has died' — ...
...ive opposition to her father's message. After the Hijra to Medina, the Prophet ﷺ gave Umm Kulthum in marriage to Uthman ibn A...
...ive him by six months. The sustained personal losses of the Medinan period — children, companions, family — reveal a man who e...
...the Hijra and had performed Umrah multiple times during the Medinan period, but Hajj under Muslim governance was possible only...
... that the army march. The army assembled at al-Jurf outside Medina and waited as the Prophet's ﷺ condition deteriorated. He di...
...ewell Sermon at Arafat; this was a personal farewell to the Medinan community, delivered while gravely ill. The Prophet ﷺ off...
...-Khattab now stands at the heart of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina. The death of the Prophet ﷺ closed twenty-three years of r...
...e of his followers, boycotts, and loss. He then migrated to Medina (the Hijrah), which marks the beginning of the Islamic cale...
...rom Banu Qurayza, a tribe settled in the region of Yathrib (Medina). He was brought to Medina and set to work in the date palm...
...laiming prophethood had arrived at Quba on the outskirts of Medina, Salman immediately thought of the three signs the dying bi...
... and entered Islam at the feet of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in Medina — bringing to an end a journey that had consumed decades of...
...mmad ﷺ. Khalid ibn al-Walid led the Muslim force north from Medina and routed Tulayha's forces. Tulayha fled to Syria and late...
...s Persian carpet and the crown jewels, were sent to Umar in Medina.
...mself. Umar ibn al-Khattab made the journey personally from Medina to receive the keys of Jerusalem — arriving on camelback, d...
Uthman ibn Affan was besieged in his home in Medina by rebel groups from Egypt, Kufa, and Basra, who accused hi...
...f Uthman and opposing Ali's caliphate. Ali had marched from Medina to Kufa and then toward Basra seeking reconciliation, but n...
...h, abdicating the caliphate in exchange for safe passage to Medina and certain conditions regarding Muawiyah's succession. Thi...
... refused to pledge allegiance to Yazid I and journeyed from Medina toward Kufa with a small group of family members and compan...
...ayyad succession. Umar had previously served as governor of Medina and was known for his piety, legal knowledge, and just admi...
...or armed engagement between the nascent Muslim community of Medina and the Quraysh of Mecca. On 17 Ramadan, 2 AH, approximatel...
...raysh, Ghatafan, and various Arab and Jewish tribes besiege Medina with a combined force estimated between 10,000 and 24,000 f...
... ibn al-Khattab. The conquest secured the northern flank of Medina, eliminated a major base of opposition, and provided signif...
...o the Caliph himself, so Umar ibn al-Khattab travelled from Medina to accept the surrender in person. Umar's famous entry into...
...re defeated, and she was escorted with full honours back to Medina. Approximately 10,000 Muslims died on both sides. Ahl us-Su...
...ity and to deter any Qurayshi decision to return and attack Medina. The Prophet ﷺ marched 8 miles south of Medina where he lit...
Imam Malik ibn Anas, the scholar of Medina and founder of the Maliki school, died in the city of the P...
...died in Egypt. His school synthesized the approaches of the Medinan and Iraqi schools and became predominant in East Africa, S...
...and becoming the protectors of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
...enerosity along the way disrupted gold markets in Cairo and Medina. His journey put the Mali Empire on European maps and demon...
...n control of Syria, Egypt, and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The Ottoman sultan assumed the role of protector of the Ha...
...e became the custodian of the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina. The discovery of oil in 1938 transformed the kingdom into ...
...ns of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina to accommodate the growing number of pilgrims. These expans...
...ansions of Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina. From accommodating thousands to millions, these expansions...
...rator of hadith and one of the last surviving companions in Medina.
The first child born among the Muhajirun in Medina, later declared caliph.
Hosted the Prophet in his home when he first arrived in Medina during the Hijrah.
The leading jurist of Medina among the Tabiin and one of the seven fuqaha of Medina.
One of the seven fuqaha of Medina and a pioneer of seerah, nephew of Aisha.
Grandson of Abu Bakr and one of the seven fuqaha of Medina.
One of the seven fuqaha of Medina, teacher of az-Zuhri.
...f the scribe Zayd ibn Thabit and one of the seven fuqaha of Medina.
One of the seven fuqaha of Medina and a freed slave of the Prophet wife Maymunah.
Grandson of Umar and one of the seven fuqaha of Medina, known for his strict following of the Sunnah.
...school and author of al-Muwatta, the Imam of Dar al-Hijrah (Medina).
...known as Zahir ar-Riwayah. Also studied under Imam Malik in Medina.
...own as Imam al-Haramayn for his years teaching in Mecca and Medina. A leading Ash'ari theologian and Shafi'i jurist, and the t...
...le Islamic sciences who taught at the Islamic University of Medina.
... head of the Sunnah department at the Islamic University of Medina. Known for his works on hadith methodology and his critique...
...lar and former vice-chancellor of the Islamic University of Medina. Known for his extensive commentary on Sunan Abu Dawud and ...
Syrian hadith scholar based in Medina, renowned for his critical editions of classical hadith tex...
West African Fulani scholar who settled in Medina and authored 'Iqa dh al-Himam,' a work on following evidenc...
Sindhi hadith scholar based in Medina who taught Shah Waliullah Dehlawi and Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wa...
... ﷺ, who died before his son's birth on a trading journey to Medina.
The first ambassador of Islam, sent by the Prophet to Medina before the Hijra, whose preaching brought hundreds into Isl...
...nes, later freed, and gave up all his wealth to emigrate to Medina.
A leading Jewish rabbi of Medina who immediately recognized the Prophet ﷺ as a true prophet ...
The chief of the hypocrites in Medina whose internal opposition caused significant damage to the ...
A Jewish leader of Medina who incited war against the Muslims, mocked the Prophet in ...
The Prophet's ﷺ poet, an Ansari companion known as 'Poet of the Prophet.' He composed verses in defense of Islam and the Prophet ﷺ. He lived to approximately 12
An Ansari companion and one of the three Sahabah who stayed behind from the Battle of Tabuk. He was a poet who composed verses defending Islam. His repentance a
Mother of Anas ibn Malik and a devoted Ansari companion. She was known for her deep faith, wisdom, and courage. She participated in battles, tending the wounded
A blind companion of Quraysh who was an early Muslim and substitute muadhdhin in Madinah alongside Bilal. He is referenced in Surah Abasa (80:1-10). The Prophet
Son of Ali ibn al-Husayn (Zayn al-Abidin) and grandson of Husayn ibn Ali. Known as 'al-Baqir' (the one who splits knowledge open), he was a major Tabi Tabieen s
Son of Muhammad al-Baqir and a major scholar of the Tabi Tabieen generation. He taught both Abu Hanifah and Malik ibn Anas among others. He is revered as the 6t
Medinan scholar and prolific hadith narrator, son of Urwa ibn al-Z...
Maliki judge of Medina, author of Tabsirat al-Hukkam, a landmark work on Islamic j...
Mauritanian scholar who taught in Medina and authored Adwa al-Bayan, a unique tafsir that explains t...
Indian Deobandi scholar who spent years in Medina and opposed partition of India.
...n who made the first female migration (hijra) from Mecca to Medina alone, prompting Quranic revelation.
Medinan jurist known as 'Rabi'ah al-Ra'y' for his extensive use of...
...andson of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and one of the Seven Fuqaha of Medina. Raised by his aunt Aisha, he was among the most knowledgea...
Son of Abd Allah ibn Umar and one of the Seven Fuqaha of Medina. He closely resembled his father in worship and asceticism ...
...at Companion Zayd ibn Thabit and one of the Seven Fuqaha of Medina. He inherited his father's mastery of Quranic recitation, i...
...dson of al-Harith ibn Hisham and one of the Seven Fuqaha of Medina. Known as 'Rahib Quraysh' (the monk of Quraysh) for his ext...
... accomplished scholar, poet, and one of the Seven Fuqaha of Medina. He was a teacher of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz and among the for...
Medinan Tabi'i scholar, mawla of the Hashimites, principal transmi...
Medinan Tabi'i narrator and grandson of Abu Talha al-Ansari, a maj...
Medinan jurist of Qurayshi descent, known for his courage in speak...
Medinan tabi'i and hadith scholar, brother of Sulayman ibn Yasar, ...
Medinan tabi'i and pious narrator known for his asceticism, who tr...
Medinan tabi'i and Quranic exegete from the Banu Qurayza tribe, re...
Medinan tabi'i and hadith narrator who transmitted from Abu Hurair...
Son of the caliph Uthman ibn Affan, Medinan scholar and governor of Medina, known for his knowledge of...
Medinan judge, governor, and scholar from the Ansar, appointed by ...
One of the Seven Fuqaha of Medina, son of the companion Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf, a prolific nar...
One of the Seven Fuqaha of Medina, poet-scholar and teacher of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, who comb...
One of the Seven Fuqaha of Medina, son of the companion Zayd ibn Thabit, a leading authority ...
Medinan tabi'i and hadith narrator, grandson of the companion Hati...
Medinan tabi'i and son of the companion Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf, who...
Medinan tabi'i and trusted narrator, student of Ibn Umar, whose tr...
Medinan faqih known as Rabi'at al-Ra'y (Rabi'a of Legal Opinion), ...
Medinan tabi'i scholar and nephew of the Prophet's wife Maymuna bi...
Medinan tabi'i scholar, freed slave of the family of Uthman ibn Af...
Reliable Medinan jurist and hadith scholar who later settled in Egypt, wide...
Medinan judge and grandson of the companion Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf,...
Medinan tabi'i scholar and freedman of the Zubayr family who trans...
Medinan female scholar and hadith narrator, step-daughter of the P...
Medinan Quran reciter and one of the ten canonical reciters (al-qu...
... of the Companion Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas and a prominent Kufan-Medinan narrator whose transmissions from his father are among the...
Medinan Tabi'i narrator, grandson of the Companion Abd Allah ibn A...
Medinan Tabi'i narrator known for transmitting a famous hadith fro...
...t readings, occasions of revelation, abrogation, Meccan and Medinan verses, linguistic miracles, and legal derivation. This en...
...ecifically on the Maliki school's positions as practiced in Medina. It is valued for combining legal rulings with their hadith...
The school of Medina: Imam Malik, his Muwatta, the practice of the people of Med...
The siege of Medina: Salman al-Farisi's trench strategy, the coalition of enemi...
...w scholars distinguish between surahs revealed in Mecca and Medina, their distinctive themes, styles, and content, and why thi...