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...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...