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Seerah 43 results
45 BH Death of Abd al-Muttalib

...are: at no point was the Prophet ﷺ truly alone, even as the people who protected him were taken one by one. "Did He not find y...

42 BH First Journey to Syria with Abu Talib

...n highlands exposed travelers to Byzantine markets, diverse peoples, and the remnants of ancient civilizations. For the young ...

28 BH Marriage to Khadijah bint Khuwaylid

...he was. The Prophet ﷺ said of her: "She believed in me when people called me a liar. She supported me with her wealth when peo...

17 Ramadan, 13 BH First Revelation in Cave Hira

... who came to Moses. I wish I were young and alive when your people drive you out." After the first revelation, there was a pa...

Ramadan, 13 BH Khadijah Becomes the First Believer

...of any status. The Prophet ﷺ said: "She believed in me when people called me a liar. She supported me with her wealth when peo...

13 BH Revelation of Surah al-Muddaththir

...mmanded the Prophet ﷺ to arise and warn — to actively go to people with the message. The one who "wrapped himself in his cloak...

13 BH Period of Secret Dawah

... shared Islam privately with a carefully selected circle of people — a period the seerah historians call the secret dawah (al-...

10 BH Public Declaration of Islam

...out "Ya sabahah!" — the traditional alarm cry that summoned people to an emergency. The Quraysh gathered, wondering what emerg...

10 BH Persecution of Early Muslims

...t the protection of powerful clans — slaves, freedmen, poor people, and those from minor clans — bore the brunt of violent per...

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

...e Muslim ummah. His conversion and subsequent return to his people established a pattern repeated in the Year of Delegations: ...

7 BH Boycott of Banu Hashim

...eeks of its end, both Abu Talib and Khadijah died — the two people who had protected and sustained the Prophet ﷺ more than any...

Ramadan, 4 BH Death of Khadijah bint Khuwaylid

...rriage. The Prophet ﷺ said of her: 'She believed in me when people denied me, she accepted my truthfulness when people called ...

Shawwal, 4 BH Journey to Ta'if

...akness, my insufficient means, and my insignificance before people... if You are not angry with me, I do not care — but Your f...

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

... 'If Mut'im ibn Adi were alive and had interceded for these people, I would have released them all for his sake.' The statemen...

2 BH Presenting Islam to the Tribes at Mecca

...Mecca each year; the Prophet ﷺ used this gathering to reach people beyond Mecca's Qurayshi society. Abu Lahab followed him fr...

Dhul-Hijjah, 1 BH Second Pledge of Aqabah

...im, not yet a Muslim but determined to assess whether these people were capable of what they were offering. Al-Abbas addressed...

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

...se who migrated — are distinguished throughout the Quran as people who placed the love of Allah above the love of homeland and...

1 AH Building of Masjid al-Nabawi

...r companions who had no homes in Medina. The Ahl al-Suffah (People of the Bench) lived there, learning from the Prophet ﷺ dire...

1 AH Brotherhood Between Muhajirun and Ansar

...tred of the Ansar is a sign of hypocrisy.' He said: 'If all people went one way and the Ansar went another, I would go with th...

1 AH Constitution of Medina

...heir allies constituted a single ummah, distinct from other people. The Jewish tribes were acknowledged as a community alongsi...

1 AH Institution of the Adhan (Call to Prayer)

...Abdullah: 'Teach these words to Bilal and have him call the people, for his voice is more resonant than yours.' Umar ibn al-Kh...

2 AH Marriage of Fatimah to Ali ibn Abi Talib

...the domestic labor. The Prophet ﷺ — seeing the needs of the people of the Suffa (the poor companions living at the mosque) as ...

15 Ramadan, 3 AH Birth of al-Hasan ibn Ali

... Prophet's ﷺ death. After Ali's assassination in 40 AH, the people of Kufa pledged allegiance to him as caliph. He governed fo...

5 Sha'ban, 4 AH Birth of al-Husayn ibn Ali

...he traveled toward Kufa in response to invitations from its people — who then failed to support him — and was killed with his ...

Safar, 4 AH The Treachery at Raji'

...came to the Prophet ﷺ claiming Islam had spread among their people and requesting teachers. He sent six (or ten) companions — ...

Safar, 4 AH The Massacre of Bir Ma'unah

...aled a verse about the Bi'r Ma'una martyrs — 'Convey to our people: we have met our Lord; He was pleased with us and we are pl...

Sha'ban, 5 AH Battle of Banu al-Mustaliq (al-Muraysi')

...said: 'I know of no woman who was a greater blessing to her people than Juwayriyah.' An entire captured people were freed thro...

Shawwal, 5 AH Battle of the Trench (Khandaq)

... Salman's contribution by saying: 'Salman is one of us, the People of the House' — placing a Persian convert among the Ahl al-...

Dhul-Qi'dah, 5 AH Siege of Banu Qurayza

...e relief arriving. Ka'b ibn Asad eventually proposed to his people three options: accept Islam, kill their own families and fi...

5 AH Marriage of the Prophet to Zaynab bint Jahsh

...hin yourself what Allah was to disclose. And you feared the people, while Allah had more right that you fear Him.' This unusua...

Dhul-Qi'dah, 6 AH Bay'at al-Ridwan (Pledge Under the Tree)

... ask, when news came of a companion's death: 'Was he of the people of Hudaybiyyah?' — the question of whether the deceased had...

Muharram, 7 AH Battle of Khaybar

...mily that transformed a former enemy community into related people. A Jewish woman named Zaynab bint al-Harith also served the...

7 AH Return of the Abyssinian Emigrants

...telling the Qurayshi emissaries that he would not surrender people who had found what the Christians had lost. The connection...

8 AH Quraysh Violate the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah

...d do was stand in the mosque and declare protection for the people of Mecca himself, which would at least give him something t...

20 Ramadan, 8 AH Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makkah)

...enty-one years entered without significant violence and its people received a general amnesty. The immediate trigger was the Q...

Shawwal, 8 AH Battle of Hunayn

...h.' Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib's powerful call — 'O Ansar! O people of the tree of Samura!' — reached fleeing companions who tu...

Dhul-Qi'dah, 8 AH Distribution of Hunayn Spoils at Ji'ranah

...othing. Murmurs spread that the Prophet ﷺ had found his own people and rewarded them at the Ansar's expense. The Prophet ﷺ ga...

9 AH Year of Delegations (Am al-Wufud)

... victory of Allah has come and the opening, and you see the people entering into the religion of Allah in multitudes.' The phr...

Ramadan, 9 AH Delegation of Thaqif and Acceptance of Islam by Ta'if

... in the darkest year of his life, had prayed for the city's people rather than invoked a curse, and had hoped that Allah would...

Dhul-Hijjah, 9 AH Abu Bakr Leads the Hajj

...asion: 'An announcement from Allah and His Messenger to the people on the day of the greatest Hajj' (Surah al-Tawbah 9:3). Ab...

9 Dhul-Hijjah, 10 AH The Farewell Sermon (Khutbat al-Wada')

...the entire seerah. He declared the absolute equality of all people regardless of race or ethnicity: 'An Arab has no superiorit...

Safar, 11 AH Final Illness of the Prophet

...iful in life and beautiful in death.' Then he addressed the people: 'Whoever worshipped Muhammad — Muhammad has died. Whoever ...

12 Rabi al-Awwal, 11 AH Death of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

...iful in life and beautiful in death.' Then he addressed the people: 'Whoever worshipped Muhammad — Muhammad has died. And whoe...

History 35 results
Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Idris (peace be upon him)

...lars such as Ibn Kathir note that Idris was among the first people to write with a pen, to tailor garments, and to study the s...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Nuh (Noah, peace be upon him)

... "the second father of humanity." He was sent by Allah to a people who had fallen into widespread idol worship, and he called ...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Hud (peace be upon him)

Hud (peace be upon him) was sent by Allah to the people of 'Ad — a powerful and prosperous Arab civilization that l...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Salih (peace be upon him)

Salih (peace be upon him) was sent by Allah to the people of Thamud — an ancient Arab civilization that inhabited the...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham, peace be upon him)

...ah" (Surah Al-An'am 6:79). He confronted his father and his people with clarity and wisdom, and when they refused to listen, h...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Lut (Lot, peace be upon him)

...with him from Iraq. Allah then sent Lut as a prophet to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah — cities whose inhabitants had commit...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Ismail (Ishmael, peace be upon him)

...27). Ismail was himself a prophet who continued to call the people of Mecca and Arabia to the worship of Allah alone. The Qura...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Ishaq (Isaac, peace be upon him)

... who came to Ibrahim with tidings of the destruction of the people of Lut also brought glad tidings of a son: Sarah, in astoni...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Yaqub (Jacob, peace be upon him)

...o one despairs of relief from Allah except the disbelieving people" (Surah Yusuf 12:86–87). Allah reunited Yaqub with Yusuf a...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Shuaib (peace be upon him)

Shuaib (peace be upon him) was sent by Allah to two peoples: the people of Madyan (a prosperous trading community in t...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Musa (Moses, peace be upon him)

...d their faith. Despite nine clear miracles, Fir'awn and his people refused to submit. Finally, Allah commanded Musa to lead th...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Harun (Aaron, peace be upon him)

...bsence, a man named al-Samiri crafted a golden calf for the people, who fell into worshipping it. Harun had strenuously oppose...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Dhul-Kifl (peace be upon him)

... region named Kifl. The exact identity of Dhul-Kifl and the people to whom he was sent is not specified in the Quran. Classic...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Ilyas (Elijah, peace be upon him)

...indeed, Ilyas was among the messengers. When he said to his people: 'Will you not fear Allah? Do you call upon Baal and leave ...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Alyasa (Elisha, peace be upon him)

...istory — through a long chain of prophets sent to different peoples and times. Each of these prophets carried the same essenti...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Yunus (Jonah, peace be upon him)

...uely tested prophets in Islamic history. He was sent to the people of Nineveh — a great city in what is now northern Iraq — an...

Prophet · Pre-Islamic Prophets Prophet Zakariyya (Zechariah, peace be upon him)

...r a confirming sign, he was told that he would not speak to people for three days except by gesture. This was not a punishment...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ The True Message of Isa AS: Pure Tawhid

...which Allah asks: "O Isa, son of Maryam, did you say to the people: 'Take me and my mother as deities besides Allah?'" and Isa...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ The Hawariyin: Disciples and First Bearers of the Message

... rejection of polytheism. The Quran affirms that among the People of the Book — both Jews and Christians — there remained ind...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ Corruption of the Injil: Scripture Altered by Human Hands

...ance from Allah delivered through His prophet to a specific people at a specific time. What is called the New Testament today ...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ The Council of Nicaea (325 CE) and the Formalization of the Trinity

...d to exist — the Visigoths, the Vandals, and other Germanic peoples were converted to Arianism before Trinitarian Christianity...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ The Remnants of True Monotheism: Communities of Pure Faith

.... The Quran itself acknowledges the existence of righteous People of the Book who maintained a degree of authentic faith. All...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ Waraqah ibn Nawfal: The Christian Scholar Who Awaited the Prophet ﷺ

...ould that I were young and could live to the time when your people will turn you out." This statement is extraordinary on sev...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ Salman al-Farisi: Betrayed, Enslaved, and Brought to Medina

...rophet Muhammad ﷺ later said of Salman: "Salman is from the People of the House (Ahl al-Bayt)." This statement — an extraordin...

History · Between Isa and Muhammad ﷺ Salman al-Farisi Embraces Islam: The Journey Completed

... from Mecca — asked: "Is Salman one of us?" The Ansar — the people of Medina — asked: "Is Salman one of us?" The Prophet ﷺ res...

History · Rashidun Caliphate Hasan ibn Ali's Abdication — End of the Rashidun Era

...ibn Ali was given the pledge of allegiance as caliph by the people of Iraq. However, Muawiyah marched with the Syrian army and...

History · Umayyad Dynasty Yazid I's Succession Triggers the Second Fitna

...er of opposition in Mecca. Husayn received letters from the people of Kufa urging him to come and lead them in revolt, but the...

Battle · Umayyad Dynasty Battle of Karbala

... receiving tens of thousands of pledges of support from the people of Kufa, Husayn travelled toward Iraq with a small group of...

Battle · Umayyad Dynasty Conquest of Sindh

...m: Hindus and Buddhists were treated as dhimmis — protected peoples — allowed to continue their religious practices and mainta...

Battle · Crusades Era Battle of Dorylaeum (First Crusade)

... crusaders, having already annihilated the poorly equipped 'People's Crusade' earlier. His force initially fell upon the advan...

History · Abbasid Dynasty Mongol Destruction of Baghdad

...liph al-Musta'sim and an estimated hundreds of thousands of people. Libraries were destroyed, including the House of Wisdom. T...

History · Mamluk Sultanate Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage to Mecca

...ook his famous pilgrimage to Mecca with a caravan of 60,000 people and enormous quantities of gold. His lavish generosity alon...

History · Mamluk Sultanate Death of Ibn Taymiyyah

... Damascus. His funeral was attended by an estimated 200,000 people. His writings have profoundly influenced modern Islamic rev...

History · Ottoman Empire Imam Shamil and Caucasian Resistance

... Russian imperial expansion in the Caucasus, uniting Muslim peoples under a Sharia-based state.

History · Colonial Era Iran-Iraq War

...r war between Iraq and Iran killed an estimated one million people and devastated both countries.

People 18 results
prophet Prophet Hud

Prophet sent to the people of Ad, who were destroyed for rejecting his message.

prophet Prophet Salih

Prophet sent to the people of Thamud with the miraculous she-camel as a sign.

prophet Prophet Lut (Lot)

Nephew of Ibrahim, sent to the people of Sodom who were destroyed for their transgressions.

prophet Prophet Shuayb (Jethro)

Prophet sent to the people of Madyan, calling them to honest trade and worship of Alla...

prophet Prophet Yunus (Jonah)

Prophet swallowed by a whale who repented; his people were the only nation to believe and be saved.

sahabi Abdullah ibn Masud

...iest converts and foremost Quran reciters, the Prophet told people to learn Quran from him.

Pre-Islamic Wife of Lut

The wife of Lut AS who betrayed him by informing his people of his guests and was destroyed with the people of Sodom.

Pre-Islamic Sam ibn Nuh (Shem)

... Islamic and Biblical tradition the ancestor of the Semitic peoples including the Arabs and Israelites.

Pre-Islamic Ham ibn Nuh

...blical tradition as the ancestor of the African and Hamitic peoples.

Pre-Islamic Yafith ibn Nuh (Japheth)

...ition as the ancestor of the Turkic, European, and northern peoples.

sahabi Abdullah ibn Salam

A leading Jewish rabbi of Medina who immediately recognized the Prophet ﷺ as a true prophet upon his arrival and converted to Islam.

Pre-Islamic Ashab al-Kahf (People of the Cave)

The group of young men who took refuge in a cave from a pagan king and were caused to sleep by Allah for 309 years — narrated in Surah al-Kahf.

Pre-Islamic Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog)

The destructive peoples sealed behind the iron barrier of Dhul-Qarnayn who will be...

tabii Wahb ibn Munabbih

...n scholar of Yemen known for his extensive knowledge of the People of the Book (Jewish and Christian scriptures) and Isra'iliy...

sahabi Salim mawla Abi Hudhayfah

.... The Prophet ﷺ ordered that the Quran be learned from four people, and Salim was one of them. He was martyred at Yamama in 12...

sahabi Abu Rafi al-Qibti

...ave and servant of the Prophet ﷺ originally from the Coptic people. He was gifted to the Prophet ﷺ by his uncle al-Abbas and s...

sahabi Umm Ayman (Barakah)

...ant of the Prophet's ﷺ father Abdullah and one of the first people to care for the Prophet ﷺ as an infant and child. She was f...

tabii Ubayd ibn Umayr al-Laythi

...an preacher and narrator who is considered one of the first people to narrate stories (qasas) publicly in Islam, revered by Ib...

Books 9 results
Imam al-Bukhari Al-Adab al-Mufrad

...ct. Contains 1,322 narrations covering topics from greeting people and visiting the sick to maintaining family ties and showin...

Ibn Taymiyyah Al-Aqeedah al-Hamawiyyah

...A detailed fatwa written in response to a question from the people of Hama, Syria, about the divine attributes mentioned in th...

Ibn al-Jawzi Talbis Iblis (The Devil's Deceptions)

...bn al-Jawzi. A penetrating analysis of how Shaytan deceives people from every walk of life. Ibn al-Jawzi examines how scholars...

Imam at-Tirmidhi Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyyah

...dressed, slept, laughed, cried, walked, and interacted with people. The work paints an intimate, detailed portrait of the Prop...

Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab Kashf ash-Shubuhat (Removal of Doubts)

...ahhab responds to twelve specific doubts or objections that people raised against his call to pure tawhid, using Quranic verse...

Al-Mas'udi Muruj adh-Dhahab

... creation to his own time, including descriptions of lands, peoples, customs, and scientific knowledge. Written in an engaging...

Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah I'lam al-Muwaqqi'in (detailed)

...d justice, and that legal rulings must serve the welfare of people. He provides hundreds of examples of how the Prophet and ea...

Ibn Khaldun Kitab al-Ibar

...vers the history of the Arabs, Persians, Berbers, and other peoples, applying Ibn Khaldun's revolutionary sociological theorie...

Jafar Sheikh Idris Islam and Democracy

...nts about sovereignty: Western democracy premises it in the people, while Islam premises it in Allah alone — with human govern...

Articles 14 results
Theology Tawhid al-Uluhiyyah — Oneness of Worship

...sively to Allah. The Tawhid that every prophet called their people to.

Jurisprudence The Maliki School of Jurisprudence

...ool of Medina: Imam Malik, his Muwatta, the practice of the people of Medina, and its geographic spread.

Quran Prophet Yunus (Jonah) and the Whale

The story of Yunus who left his people in frustration, was swallowed by a great fish, and turned t...

Quran Prophet Hud and the People of 'Ad

The story of Prophet Hud who was sent to the mighty people of 'Ad, their arrogance, and their destruction by a devasta...

Quran Prophet Salih and the People of Thamud

The story of Prophet Salih, the miraculous she-camel, and the destruction of the Thamud for their defiance of Allah.

Quran Prophet Shu'ayb and the People of Madyan

The story of Prophet Shu'ayb, his call against commercial fraud, and the destruction of Madyan for their economic injustice.

Quran Prophet Lut (Lot) and the People of Sodom

The story of Prophet Lut, his people's unprecedented sin, and the dramatic divine punishment tha...

Quran Prophet Yunus (Jonah): Patience, Repentance, and Divine Mercy

The full story of Prophet Yunus, his departure from his people, the whale, and his supplication from the depths of darknes...

Dawah Interfaith Dialogue from an Islamic Perspective

The Quranic foundations for engaging with people of other faiths, historical examples, and contemporary guid...

Interfaith People of the Book (Ahl al-Kitab) in Islam

The Quranic concept of Ahl al-Kitab, the legal rulings regarding relations with Jews and Christians, marriage, food, and historical coexistence.

History The Siege of Taif

... early Islam, and the Prophet's famous supplication for the people of Taif.

Ethics Huqooq al-Ibad: The Rights of People

The Islamic emphasis that the rights people hold over one another are not forgiven by Allah without the...

Ethics Riya: Showing Off as Hidden Shirk

... danger of performing righteous deeds for the admiration of people, why the Prophet called it the minor shirk, and how to puri...

Dawah Interfaith Dialogue: The Islamic Framework

The Quranic basis for engaging with people of other faiths, the historical precedent from the Prophet'...

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