73 results for “muslim”
Clear filter... Arabia from a fragmented polytheist society into a unified Muslim ummah. Within a century of his birth, his message would rea...
...ry unit of every prayer, seventeen times each day for every Muslim who prays. The Prophet ﷺ described it as "Umm al-Quran" (th...
... of al-Arqam — was the primary gathering place of the early Muslim community in Mecca during the secret period of the dawah an...
...cca, the Quraysh leadership moved swiftly against the early Muslim community. Those who had converted without the protection o...
...est transmission channel of prophetic tradition entered the Muslim ummah. His conversion and subsequent return to his people e...
...y altered the balance in Mecca. The Quraysh understood that Muslims now had, in Hamza, a protector who would respond to physic...
By the fifth year of prophethood, the persecution of Muslims in Mecca had become systematic and inescapable. Slaves wer...
...r declared his Islam. The impact was immediate: within days Muslims were praying openly at the Kaaba, a right they had not dar...
...irst migration to Abyssinia had taken approximately fifteen Muslims across the Red Sea in secret. When a false rumor reached t...
When individual persecution failed to break the Muslim community, the Quraysh escalated to collective punishment a...
...thirteen years of the Meccan mission possible. He was not a Muslim, in the classical scholarly consensus, but he was the most ...
...at approximately sixty-five years of age. She was the first Muslim — the first person to hear the Prophet's ﷺ account of the i...
...physical elimination for over a decade. Khadijah, the first Muslim and his wife of twenty-five years, followed within weeks. T...
...thing for me.' The garden's owners — Utbah and Shaybah, non-Muslim Qurayshis — watched and sent their Christian slave Addas wi...
...ory — was one of the most striking acknowledgments of a non-Muslim's good deed in the entire seerah. The protection that made ...
... man with the Yathrib delegation to teach and establish the Muslim community in the city: Musab ibn Umayr. Before his conversi...
...uncle al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib came with him, not yet a Muslim but determined to assess whether these people were capable ...
As Muslims began leaving Mecca for Yathrib after the Second Pledge of...
...ibed observance but because it marked the transition of the Muslim community from persecuted minority to governing entity with...
...r us, from the valley of Wida'.' This song has been sung in Muslim communities across the world ever since — a communal memory...
...alley of the Banu Salim ibn Awf — approximately one hundred Muslims gathering in an open space that served as the early prayer...
...er us from the valley of Wida'.' This song has been sung in Muslim communities across the world since. The connection to Banu ...
...s — the Prophet ﷺ promulgated a written compact between the Muslims and the various communities of Medina, including the Muhaj...
...mmunication through a dream, and prophetic recognition. The Muslim community needed a way to gather for the five daily prayers...
...ly to him and not to any prophet before him, are recited by Muslims each night as a protection and a declaration of faith. The...
...e first house of monotheistic worship; it distinguished the Muslim community clearly from Jewish practice; and it fulfilled th...
...Ramadan of Islam — 2 AH — was also the Ramadan of Badr. The Muslim force that fought the defining battle of the early Islamic ...
...fer from wealth to need The zakat obligation connects every Muslim who pays it to every Muslim who paid it before them, across...
... most widely recited Quranic verse in the daily practice of Muslims across all traditions — recited after every prayer, at bed...
... the Prophet's ﷺ companions. He had been among the earliest Muslims, had migrated to Abyssinia twice, and had made the Hijra t...
...s it Yawm al-Furqan: the Day of Criterion. Before Badr, the Muslims were a migrant community in Medina, outnumbered and milita...
...as being fought. Zayd ibn Harithah arrived with news of the Muslim victory at Badr on the same day she was being buried — triu...
... Constitution of Medina, they were formally allied with the Muslim community under a covenant that obligated mutual defense an...
...you asked for.' The Tasbihat al-Fatimah has been recited by Muslim women in every generation since. Fatimah and Ali had five ...
...rformed the acts that would become the normative Sunnah for Muslim newborns: he recited the adhan in Hasan's right ear, the iq...
...Uhud, north of Medina — the second major battle between the Muslim community and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Quraysh came seekin...
...avelin and left the field. After the battle ended with the Muslim formation in disarray, Hind moved through the field of the ...
... psychological: to demonstrate that Uhud had not broken the Muslim community's capacity for action. An army that could take th...
...ﷺ modeled at Husayn's birth became the normative Sunnah for Muslim newborns everywhere, connecting every Muslim family that ha...
...y — orchards, houses, stored grain, weapons — passed to the Muslim community. Surah al-Hashr (59) is the Quran's direct commen...
...nd made sustained alcohol use practically incompatible with Muslim life. Stage three (Surah al-Ma'idah 5:90-91) delivered the ...
...deception: Banu Lihyan had hired the delegation to lure the Muslim teachers into their territory for capture and sale to the Q...
...sacre in Safar 4 AH was the single largest loss of life the Muslim community sustained outside of a formal battle. Abu Bara' A...
...bn Abi Dirar, was assembling warriors to attack Medina. The Muslim force surprised the tribe at the well of al-Muraysi', kille...
...ging rumor. He and others spread the accusation through the Muslim community, and some sincere companions who failed to verify...
...and Surah al-Nur establishing a comprehensive framework for Muslim women's dress and for gender interaction in the Muslim comm...
...rs who had been expelled from Medina the previous year. The Muslim community fielded approximately 3,000 fighters — outnumbere...
...ish tribes still in the city, broke their covenant with the Muslim community during the Battle of the Trench (5 AH) by negotia...
...adh.' This hadith — preserved in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim — is one of the most striking in the corpus: a statement th...
...ictory in the seerah. The Prophet ﷺ led approximately 1,400 Muslims toward Mecca for Umrah (the lesser pilgrimage) — in pilgri...
...mula radiyallahu 'anhu (may Allah be pleased with him) that Muslims attach to the names of companions — invoking the divine pl...
...by his own son within months and the Persian empire fell to Muslim armies within a generation. Al-Muqawqis of Egypt received t...
... they kept their land but gave half the date harvest to the Muslim community annually, creating a significant ongoing income f...
The first Muslims to emigrate from Mecca had fled to Abyssinia in the fifth ...
..., one year after the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah had required the Muslims to turn back from Mecca. The treaty had stipulated that th...
...ading of the exposed pass left by the archers that turned a Muslim victory into near-catastrophe. He led the Qurayshi cavalry ...
...r — was the first direct military confrontation between the Muslim community and Byzantine-aligned forces. It was triggered by...
...of Hudaybiyyah had established a ten-year truce between the Muslim community and the Quraysh, with a clause protecting the sec...
...ing moment of the seerah — the city that had persecuted the Muslim community for twenty-one years entered without significant ...
...er the Conquest of Mecca — was a severe test of the largest Muslim army ever assembled. The Hawazin and Thaqif tribes gathered...
...rophetic career. Now, in Shawwal 8 AH, he returned with the Muslim army and laid siege. The defenses held. The Thaqif deploye...
...was assembling an army at the Syrian frontier to strike the Muslim community. The timing could not have been more difficult: p...
... had gone to the Byzantines seeking an alliance against the Muslim community and had intended to use the mosque as his base up...
... of Hunayn had removed the last major military obstacles to Muslim political authority in Arabia, the calculus for every remai...
...t of Mecca and the Battle of Hunayn. They had withstood the Muslim siege of Taif in Shawwal 8 AH, and the Prophet ﷺ had withdr...
...diq to lead the Hajj — the first pilgrimage organized under Muslim governance of Mecca. Abu Bakr departed with approximately t...
...the Christian king of Abyssinia who had sheltered the first Muslim emigrants and refused to extradite them to the Quraysh — di...
...ah multiple times during the Medinan period, but Hajj under Muslim governance was possible only after the Conquest of Mecca. W...
...ity's survival after his death. He declared the sanctity of Muslim life, property, and honor — 'as sacred as this day of yours...
...proximately eighty days before the Prophet's ﷺ death. Every Muslim who stands at Arafat during Hajj stands at the location whe...
...et ﷺ had directed across twenty-three years. The Quran that Muslims recite today — Surah al-Fatiha through Surah al-Nas — was ...
... watching the new state reportedly said to each other: 'The Muslims would not have sent such an army if they were weak.' The c...
...ere the Prophet had breathed his last in Aisha's apartment. Muslims entered in groups to pray over him individually, without a...