50 results for “qa”
Clear filter...ustodian of the Ka'bah and provider of water to pilgrims (siqaya), felt the absence of this sacred source acutely. Accord...
...ey were fought during the sacred months — specifically Dhul-Qa'dah — when all combat was traditionally forbidden by Arab c...
...et ﷺ took no other wife. They had six children: the sons al-Qasim and Abdullah (both died in infancy) and the daughters Za...
...every righteous cause." She then took him to her cousin Waraqah ibn Nawfal, a Christian scholar of the previous scriptures...
...ecisive action. She brought the Prophet ﷺ to her cousin Waraqah ibn Nawfal — an elderly Christian scholar who had studied ...
...ent" — was a prophetic preparation for what was coming. Waraqah ibn Nawfal had already predicted that the Prophet ﷺ would ...
...arration, place it later. Ibn Kathir and al-Suyuti in his Itqan record the spectrum of scholarly opinion without reaching ...
...s: Uthman ibn Affan, Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, and Talha ibn Ubaydullah — five o...
Dar al-Arqam — the House of al-Arqam — was the primary gathering place ...
...im community: Uthman ibn Affan and the Prophet's daughter Ruqayyah, Abu Salamah and Umm Salamah, Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf, al...
...eech.' Khabbab emerged from hiding and took him to Dar al-Arqam. At the door, when word spread that Umar had come with hi...
... until forbidden. The verse revealed in response — Surah al-Qasas 28:56 — spoke directly: 'You do not guide whom you love,...
...d, and accepted Islam — an encounter recorded in Surah al-Ahqaf and Surah al-Jinn. The Year of Sorrow concluded with the I...
...n Harith and met with the three sons of Amr ibn Umayr al-Thaqafi, the most powerful men in the city. Their responses were ...
...hers, and within two years had produced the two Pledges of Aqaba — and the Hijra became possible. The years of rejection b...
...ht twelve men and two women from Yathrib to the pass of al-Aqabah near Mina. They met the Prophet ﷺ at night and pledged a...
After the First Pledge of Aqabah (approximately 621 CE), the Prophet ﷺ sent one man with ...
The Second Pledge of Aqabah took place in Dhul-Hijjah of the twelfth year of prophet...
...began leaving Mecca for Yathrib after the Second Pledge of Aqabah, the Quraysh convened an emergency council at Dar al-Nad...
...een days. The most recorded encounter on route was with Suraqa ibn Malik, a skilled tracker who pursued them and whose hor...
... Prophet ﷺ finally departed for the main city, his camel al-Qaswa was given free rein. Every clan tried to stop the camel ...
...first Friday prayer in the valley of Banu Salim. He rode al-Qaswa and let the camel walk freely through the city without d...
The Prophet ﷺ purchased the land where al-Qaswa had knelt — a date-drying ground belonging to two orphan...
...including the Muhajirin, Ansar, and the Jewish tribes (Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir, Banu Qurayza, and others). This document ...
Surah al-Baqarah — the Cow — is the longest surah in the Quran (286 verse...
.... So turn your face toward al-Masjid al-Haram.' (Surah al-Baqarah, 2:144). The Prophet ﷺ turned mid-prayer; the companions...
... of Ramadan was revealed in Sha'ban 2 AH through Surah al-Baqarah (2:183-187). The opening verse establishes it with the m...
Ayat al-Kursi — verse 255 of Surah al-Baqarah — is identified by the Prophet ﷺ himself as the greatest...
...ina and the first companion to be buried in al-Baqi' al-Gharqad — the cemetery that would become the resting place of thou...
...ent in early Islamic history. The Quran names it Yawm al-Furqan: the Day of Criterion. Before Badr, the Muslims were a mig...
Ruqayyah bint Muhammad ﷺ was the second daughter of the Prophet ...
Banu Qaynuqa was one of three Jewish tribes resident in Medina befo...
...m newborns: he recited the adhan in Hasan's right ear, the iqamah in his left, and performed the tahnik — chewing a small ...
... is a great reward.' The verse explicitly names the injury (qar') of Uhud and the response — faith that grew rather than s...
...h, the Prophet ﷺ performed the adhan in his right ear, the iqamah in his left, and the tahnik (softened date rubbed on the...
...ant breakdowns with Medina's Jewish tribes — following Banu Qaynuqa's expulsion in 2 AH and preceding the far more severe ...
...graduated four-stage Quranic process. Stage one (Surah al-Baqarah 2:219) reframed wine in terms of sin and benefit without...
In Safar 4 AH, a delegation from the tribes of Adhal and Qara came to the Prophet ﷺ claiming Islam had spread among the...
...tory language that reached the Prophet ﷺ through Zayd ibn Arqam. The revelation of Surah al-Munafiqun (63) confirmed the h...
...g those who had spread the accusation, and establishing the qadhf rule permanently in Islamic law: accusing another of adu...
... Zaynab bint Jahsh — his paternal aunt's daughter — in Dhul-Qa'dah 5 AH was unique among all his marriages in being explic...
The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah in Dhul-Qa'dah 6 AH was the pivotal diplomatic achievement of the Medi...
...Ridwan (Bay'at al-Ridwan) took place at Hudaybiyyah in Dhul-Qa'dah 6 AH during a moment of crisis. The Prophet ﷺ had sent ...
...ium, Khosrow Parviz of Persia, the Negus of Abyssinia, al-Muqawqis of Egypt, and the Ghassanid king. The responses varied ...
Umrah al-Qadiyyah — the Compensatory Umrah or Umrah of Fulfillment — wa...
...ffan, who had previously been married to her older sister Ruqayyah. Ruqayyah had died in 2 AH while Uthman remained with h...
...by Maria al-Qibtiyya, the Coptic woman sent to him by the Muqawqis of Egypt. He was born in Dhul-Hijjah 8 AH — the year of...
...e Conquest of Mecca. When the announcement went out in Dhul-Qa'dah 10 AH that the Prophet ﷺ would lead the Hajj, the Musli...
...t is the central rite of Hajj. He stood on his she-camel al-Qaswa before an audience estimated between 100,000 and 124,000...
...vealed at Arafat during the Farewell Pilgrimage; Surah al-Baqarah 2:281 — about the Day of Judgment; Surah al-Baqarah 2:28...