62 results for “medina”
Clear filter... 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...