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...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...
...n highlands exposed travelers to Byzantine markets, diverse peoples, and the remnants of ancient civilizations. For the young ...
...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...
... 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...
...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...
...mmanded the Prophet ﷺ to arise and warn — to actively go to people with the message. The one who "wrapped himself in his cloak...
... shared Islam privately with a carefully selected circle of people — a period the seerah historians call the secret dawah (al-...
...out "Ya sabahah!" — the traditional alarm cry that summoned people to an emergency. The Quraysh gathered, wondering what emerg...
...t the protection of powerful clans — slaves, freedmen, poor people, and those from minor clans — bore the brunt of violent per...
...e Muslim ummah. His conversion and subsequent return to his people established a pattern repeated in the Year of Delegations: ...
...eeks of its end, both Abu Talib and Khadijah died — the two people who had protected and sustained the Prophet ﷺ more than any...
...rriage. The Prophet ﷺ said of her: 'She believed in me when people denied me, she accepted my truthfulness when people called ...
...akness, my insufficient means, and my insignificance before people... if You are not angry with me, I do not care — but Your f...
... 'If Mut'im ibn Adi were alive and had interceded for these people, I would have released them all for his sake.' The statemen...
...Mecca each year; the Prophet ﷺ used this gathering to reach people beyond Mecca's Qurayshi society. Abu Lahab followed him fr...
...im, not yet a Muslim but determined to assess whether these people were capable of what they were offering. Al-Abbas addressed...
...se who migrated — are distinguished throughout the Quran as people who placed the love of Allah above the love of homeland and...
...r companions who had no homes in Medina. The Ahl al-Suffah (People of the Bench) lived there, learning from the Prophet ﷺ dire...
...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...
...heir allies constituted a single ummah, distinct from other people. The Jewish tribes were acknowledged as a community alongsi...
...Abdullah: 'Teach these words to Bilal and have him call the people, for his voice is more resonant than yours.' Umar ibn al-Kh...
...the domestic labor. The Prophet ﷺ — seeing the needs of the people of the Suffa (the poor companions living at the mosque) as ...
... Prophet's ﷺ death. After Ali's assassination in 40 AH, the people of Kufa pledged allegiance to him as caliph. He governed fo...
...he traveled toward Kufa in response to invitations from its people — who then failed to support him — and was killed with his ...
...came to the Prophet ﷺ claiming Islam had spread among their people and requesting teachers. He sent six (or ten) companions — ...
...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...
...said: 'I know of no woman who was a greater blessing to her people than Juwayriyah.' An entire captured people were freed thro...
... Salman's contribution by saying: 'Salman is one of us, the People of the House' — placing a Persian convert among the Ahl al-...
...e relief arriving. Ka'b ibn Asad eventually proposed to his people three options: accept Islam, kill their own families and fi...
...hin yourself what Allah was to disclose. And you feared the people, while Allah had more right that you fear Him.' This unusua...
... ask, when news came of a companion's death: 'Was he of the people of Hudaybiyyah?' — the question of whether the deceased had...
...mily that transformed a former enemy community into related people. A Jewish woman named Zaynab bint al-Harith also served the...
...telling the Qurayshi emissaries that he would not surrender people who had found what the Christians had lost. The connection...
...d do was stand in the mosque and declare protection for the people of Mecca himself, which would at least give him something t...
...enty-one years entered without significant violence and its people received a general amnesty. The immediate trigger was the Q...
...h.' Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib's powerful call — 'O Ansar! O people of the tree of Samura!' — reached fleeing companions who tu...
...othing. Murmurs spread that the Prophet ﷺ had found his own people and rewarded them at the Ansar's expense. The Prophet ﷺ ga...
... victory of Allah has come and the opening, and you see the people entering into the religion of Allah in multitudes.' The phr...
... 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...
...asion: 'An announcement from Allah and His Messenger to the people on the day of the greatest Hajj' (Surah al-Tawbah 9:3). Ab...
...the entire seerah. He declared the absolute equality of all people regardless of race or ethnicity: 'An Arab has no superiorit...
...iful in life and beautiful in death.' Then he addressed the people: 'Whoever worshipped Muhammad — Muhammad has died. Whoever ...
...iful in life and beautiful in death.' Then he addressed the people: 'Whoever worshipped Muhammad — Muhammad has died. And whoe...