106 results for “messenger”
Clear filter...r centuries. By the time of Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim, the Prophet's grandfather, the well's exact location had been completel...
... visible luminous mark — understood by scholars as the nur (prophetic light) of the final Prophet, passed through a chain of bl...
... in the valley of Muhassir near Mina, Abd al-Muttalib — the Prophet's grandfather and Mecca's chief — met with Abraha to negoti...
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, the Prophet's father ﷺ, died before his son was born — making the Proph...
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was born in Mecca, in the neighborhood of Banu H...
When the Prophet ﷺ was born, Mecca's noble families followed the custom of s...
...vent of Shaqq al-Sadr — the opening and purification of the Prophet's chest — is recorded as having occurred twice in his life:...
The death of Aminah bint Wahb, the Prophet's mother, occurred at a waystation called al-Abwa — between...
Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim died when the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was approximately eight years old — around 578 C...
When the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was approximately nine to twelve years old, he t...
...Kinanah alliance, erupting in approximately 590 CE when the Prophet ﷺ was in his late teens. The wars derived their name from A...
...led him to pay. The alliance worked on its first test. The Prophet ﷺ attended as a young man — approximately fifteen to twenty...
When the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was approximately twenty-five years old, Khadija...
...widowed, who had initiated the proposal after observing the Prophet's character through his conduct of her trading caravan to S...
...oximately five years before the first revelation — when the Prophet ﷺ was about thirty-five — the Ka'bah in Mecca was damaged b...
In the years before revelation came to him, the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ developed a practice of annual spiritual retreat...
The first revelation of the Quran came to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ during one of his annual Ramadan retreats in Cav...
When the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ returned from Cave Hira trembling and overwhelme...
...transformed a private recipient of revelation into a public messenger. Together they mark the beginning of the prophetic mission ...
...r, seventeen times each day for every Muslim who prays. The Prophet ﷺ described it as "Umm al-Quran" (the Mother of the Quran) ...
...: that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad ﷺ is His messenger. The first converts of this period represent an extraordin...
...al-Safa hill near the Ka'bah served as the center where the Prophet ﷺ would teach revelation to the growing community of believ...
...he far more dangerous phase of open proclamation began. The Prophet ﷺ climbed Mount Safa — one of the two sacred hills between ...
...erial power of Egypt. The pattern was always the same — the messenger is opposed, the community suffers, and Allah ultimately vin...
...in his ears before approaching the Ka'bah. Yet watching the Prophet ﷺ pray, he reconsidered: as a man of literary training, he ...
... al-Muttalib was the most formidable warrior in Mecca — the Prophet's uncle and near-contemporary in age, renowned as a hunter,...
By the fifth year of prophethood, the persecution of Muslims in Mecca had become systema...
... ibn al-Khattab left his house one day in the sixth year of prophethood carrying his sword with the intention of killing the Pr...
...unity, crossed to Abyssinia in the sixth or seventh year of prophethood. This was not a retreat but a deliberate strategic relo...
...ent at the clan level. In approximately the seventh year of prophethood (617 CE), the leading Qurayshi clans formalized a compr...
Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib was the Prophet's ﷺ paternal uncle and guardian from age eight — the man wh...
...hadijah bint Khuwaylid died in Ramadan of the tenth year of prophethood (approximately 619 CE) at approximately sixty-five year...
The tenth year of prophethood brought two deaths in close succession that the Prophet...
The Prophet ﷺ traveled to Taif in the tenth year of prophethood (619 CE...
When the Prophet ﷺ returned from Taif in the tenth year of prophethood — bea...
...od — after the death of Abu Talib and Khadijah had left the Prophet ﷺ more exposed — he made a practice of presenting the messa...
...rough the seven heavens — is the most singular event in the Prophet's ﷺ earthly biography. Its date is disputed among scholars;...
..., six men from the Khazraj tribe of Yathrib encountered the Prophet ﷺ at Zamzam or near Mina during the pilgrimage season. When...
...fter the First Pledge of Aqabah (approximately 621 CE), the Prophet ﷺ sent one man with the Yathrib delegation to teach and est...
... of Aqabah took place in Dhul-Hijjah of the twelfth year of prophethood (approximately 622 CE) — the final pilgrimage season be...
...il at Dar al-Nadwa to determine a final solution before the Prophet ﷺ could escape their reach permanently. They considered imp...
... saw a day more beautiful or more luminous than the day the Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived in Medina.' The city was renamed al-Madi...
The Prophet ﷺ entered the Medinan region not through the city but throu...
...ns, and calling the gathering to obedience of Allah and His Messenger. The Friday prayer's obligatory congregational format — kh...
... saw a day more beautiful or more luminous than the day the Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived in Medina.' The women and children of th...
The Prophet ﷺ purchased the land where al-Qaswa had knelt — a date-dryi...
Among the first acts of the Prophet ﷺ in Medina — alongside building the mosque and before the ...
...ra — within the first year according to most scholars — the Prophet ﷺ promulgated a written compact between the Muslims and the...
...ity deliberation, divine communication through a dream, and prophetic recognition. The Muslim community needed a way to gather ...
... covenant and its violations, and Ayat al-Kursi — which the Prophet ﷺ himself identified as the greatest verse in the Quran. T...
...r after the Hijra, approximately seventeen months after the Prophet's ﷺ arrival in Medina. The change came through revelation d...
...ng the fast's connection to the Quran's own beginning. The Prophet ﷺ elaborated the practice in prophetic tradition: the suhur...
...duce and sustain poverty, not merely temporary hunger. The Prophet ﷺ said to Muadh when sending him to Yemen: 'Tell them that ...
...ursi — verse 255 of Surah al-Baqarah — is identified by the Prophet ﷺ himself as the greatest verse in the Quran. When asked di...
...ery that would become the resting place of thousands of the Prophet's ﷺ companions. He had been among the earliest Muslims, had...
...aised hands until Abu Bakr took them down: 'It is enough, O Messenger of Allah — Allah will fulfill what He has promised you.' T...
Ruqayyah bint Muhammad ﷺ was the second daughter of the Prophet ﷺ and Khadijah. Initially betrothed to Utbah ibn Abi Lahab,...
...d mutual defense and required disputes to be brought to the Prophet ﷺ for arbitration. The covenant also prohibited any signato...
...h al-Zahra to Ali ibn Abi Talib in 2 AH was arranged by the Prophet ﷺ himself after declining proposals from Abu Bakr and Umar ...
...irst son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatimah al-Zahra, and the Prophet's ﷺ first grandchild to survive into childhood. (Ali and Fa...
...ly 3,000 fighters against a Muslim force of around 700. The Prophet ﷺ positioned the archers on a strategic pass in the mountai...
...llah wa-Asad Rasulih (the Lion of Allah and the Lion of His Messenger) and Sayyid al-Shuhada (the Master of the Martyrs). Wahshi ...
...Al Imran (3:172-174): 'Those who responded to Allah and the Messenger after injury had struck them — for those who did good among...
...alib and Fatimah al-Zahra, and the second grandchild of the Prophet ﷺ to survive into childhood. At his birth, the Prophet ﷺ pe...
...re expelled in Rabi' al-Awwal 4 AH after a plot against the Prophet's ﷺ life. He had visited their agricultural settlements to ...
... serving from the moment he heard the verse read aloud. The Prophet ﷺ extended the prohibition through hadith: 'Every intoxican...
... a delegation from the tribes of Adhal and Qara came to the Prophet ﷺ claiming Islam had spread among their people and requesti...
...r to Amir ibn al-Tufayl, Abu Bara's nephew. Amir killed the messenger without reading the letter. The Banu Amir honored Abu Bara'...
...ustaliq in Sha'ban 5 AH began as a pre-emptive strike — the Prophet ﷺ received intelligence that their chief, al-Harith ibn Abi...
...ation of adultery against Aishah bint Abi Bakr, wife of the Prophet ﷺ, following the expedition of Banu al-Mustaliq in 5 AH. Ai...
...ah al-Ahzab 33:53), revealed in 5 AH at the occasion of the Prophet's ﷺ marriage to Zaynab bint Jahsh, established that those w...
...n in Arabian warfare. The companions dug for days, with the Prophet ﷺ working alongside them, carrying dirt and stone and tying...
...onfederate army withdrew and the immediate siege ended, the Prophet ﷺ announced immediate action: 'Let no one pray Asr until he...
...d children taken captive, and the property distributed. The Prophet ﷺ declared: 'You have judged by the judgment of Allah from ...
The Prophet's ﷺ marriage to Zaynab bint Jahsh — his paternal aunt's dau...
...rophet ﷺ replied calmly: 'I am the servant of Allah and His Messenger. I will not disobey His command and He will not abandon me....
...aybiyyah in Dhul-Qa'dah 6 AH during a moment of crisis. The Prophet ﷺ had sent Uthman ibn Affan to Mecca as his envoy during th...
... Hudaybiyyah created a political ceasefire with Mecca — the Prophet ﷺ dispatched formal letters to the major rulers of the know...
...w I will give the standard to a man who loves Allah and His Messenger and whom Allah and His Messenger love — one through whose h...
...grate from Mecca had fled to Abyssinia in the fifth year of prophethood, seeking the protection of the Negus Ashama ibn Abjar, ...
... agreement, withdrawing to the surrounding hills, while the Prophet ﷺ and approximately 2,000 companions entered Mecca in ihram...
...a — Khalid made his way to Medina and took his shahada. The Prophet ﷺ received him with warmth and the statement: 'I knew that ...
.... The Prophet ﷺ received the news through vision before the messengers arrived, and wept for Zayd, Jafar, and Abdullah. He called...
...h party's allied tribes. Banu Khuza'ah had aligned with the Prophet ﷺ; Banu Bakr aligned with the Quraysh. In Sha'ban 8 AH, Ban...
...upporting an attack on the Muslim-allied Banu Khuza'ah. The Prophet ﷺ marched from Medina with 10,000 fighters — the largest Mu...
...s go home with camels and sheep, while you go home with the Messenger of Allah?' The Ansar wept. Hunayn's theological significanc...
...alls, catapults, and a population determined to resist. The Prophet ﷺ had been pelted with stones in Taif years earlier, the mo...
...rs go back with sheep and camels while you go back with the Messenger of Allah?' He concluded: 'By Him in whose hand is my soul, ...
... of Hardship) — was the last major military campaign of the Prophet's ﷺ life and the largest force he ever commanded. Undertake...
...mother gave birth to you.' Ka'b asked: 'Is this from you, O Messenger of Allah, or from Allah?' The Prophet ﷺ said: 'From Allah.'...
...as a station for those who had warred against Allah and His Messenger before' (Surah al-Tawbah 9:107). The reference was to Abu A...
...e sent advance parties and followed with larger groups. The Prophet ﷺ received each delegation personally, answered their quest...
...withstood the Muslim siege of Taif in Shawwal 8 AH, and the Prophet ﷺ had withdrawn the siege after fifteen to twenty days, pra...
...specified the occasion: 'An announcement from Allah and His Messenger to the people on the day of the greatest Hajj' (Surah al-Ta...
...m to the Quraysh — died in Rajab 9 AH. The news reached the Prophet ﷺ in Medina. He announced to the companions: 'Your brother ...
Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad was the third of the Prophet's ﷺ daughters by Khadijah. She had been married in Mecca to...
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad was the Prophet's ﷺ son by Maria al-Qibtiyya, the Coptic woman sent to him ...
...rewell Pilgrimage — Hajjat al-Wada' — was the only Hajj the Prophet ﷺ performed in his lifetime. He had been in Mecca for the y...
...e Farewell Sermon — Khutbat al-Wada' — was delivered by the Prophet ﷺ on the ninth of Dhul-Hijjah 10 AH at the plain of Arafat,...
...h at the plain of Arafat, on a Friday afternoon, during the Prophet's ﷺ standing (wuquf) at the climax of the Hajj. The verse ...
...n the complete text. In the final Ramadan of his life, the Prophet ﷺ reviewed the entire Quran with Jibril twice — rather than...
In Safar 11 AH — the final month of his life — the Prophet ﷺ appointed Usamah ibn Zayd ibn Haritha to command an exped...
The Prophet ﷺ fell ill in Safar 11 AH, approximately two months after r...
During his final illness, the Prophet ﷺ came to the mosque for the last time — supported on each ...
...e recited Surah Al Imran 3:144: 'Muhammad is no more than a messenger; the messengers have already passed away before him.' Umar ...
The Prophet's burial was delayed until Tuesday night (or Wednesday nigh...