116 results for “quraysh”
...en the pick struck the ancient well and water surged forth, Quraysh immediately disputed his right to sole custodianship. The a...
...Banu Zuhra clan united two of the finest lineages in all of Quraysh, both tracing their ancestry through the line of Ibrahim an...
...ha to negotiate the return of two hundred camels taken from Quraysh's herds. Abraha expressed surprise that Abd al-Muttalib spo...
...s, having lived a life of extraordinary influence: chief of Quraysh, custodian of the Ka'bah, discoverer of Zamzam, the man who...
...re central to Mecca's economy and to the education of young Qurayshi men: the journey through the Hejaz and Jordanian highlands...
...ere a series of conflicts between the Hawazin tribe and the Quraysh-Kinanah alliance, erupting in approximately 590 CE when the...
...Jud'an al-Taymi in Mecca, involving noble men from multiple Qurayshi clans including Banu Hashim, Banu Muttalib, Banu Asad, Ban...
... the Ka'bah in Mecca was damaged by flood and fire, and the Quraysh undertook a complete reconstruction. They organized the wor...
...akr ibn Abi Quhafa was among the most respected free men of Quraysh, the Prophet's close friend, who accepted without hesitatio...
...ontext of social pressure and emerging persecution from the Quraysh. The house became a sanctuary where the early community cou...
...itional alarm cry that summoned people to an emergency. The Quraysh gathered, wondering what emergency had brought him there. ...
... the Prophet ﷺ began preaching Islam publicly in Mecca, the Quraysh leadership moved swiftly against the early Muslim community...
...o traveled to Mecca during the pilgrimage season, where the Quraysh intercept him with a warning: Muhammad ﷺ was a dangerous sp...
...'s conversion immediately altered the balance in Mecca. The Quraysh understood that Muslims now had, in Hamza, a protector who ...
...ting refuge without demanding anything in return. When the Quraysh learned of the migration, they sent Amr ibn al-As and Abdul...
... imposing, intellectually confident, deeply invested in the Qurayshi social order that Muhammad ﷺ was dismantling with every ne...
...Red Sea in secret. When a false rumor reached them that the Quraysh had converted to Islam, many returned — only to find the si...
...idual persecution failed to break the Muslim community, the Quraysh escalated to collective punishment at the clan level. In ap...
... consequential non-Muslim protector in Islamic history. The Quraysh could not act against the Prophet ﷺ so long as Abu Talib li...
...d the domestic anchor of the Prophet's ﷺ life in Mecca. The Quraysh tested the new situation immediately: a man threw dirt on t...
...or me.' The garden's owners — Utbah and Shaybah, non-Muslim Qurayshis — watched and sent their Christian slave Addas with a pla...
...Prophet ﷺ entered Mecca, circumambulated the Kaaba, and the Quraysh who saw him asked Mut'im whether he had followed Muhammad o...
...rophet ﷺ used this gathering to reach people beyond Mecca's Qurayshi society. Abu Lahab followed him from tribe to tribe warni...
...ant' (abdihi) denoting body and soul, and the fact that the Quraysh's reaction the next morning was disbelief at a physical cla...
...clothes and fine perfume, from the Abd al-Dar branch of the Quraysh. He had accepted Islam in the early secret period, been imp...
...tment to the oath. The pledge was made in secrecy, but the Quraysh learned of it the next day. The Yathribi leaders who had no...
...ng Mecca for Yathrib after the Second Pledge of Aqabah, the Quraysh convened an emergency council at Dar al-Nadwa to determine ...
...ute — deliberately longer than the direct road to avoid the Quraysh search parties who had placed a hundred-camel reward on the...
... approximately two weeks via the coastal route to avoid the Quraysh search parties. He stopped at the home of Kulthum ibn Hidm ...
...ctive defense of Medina. All parties pledged not to aid the Quraysh or external enemies. Individual wrongdoers were personally ...
...had owned nothing and whose body bore the marks of what the Quraysh had done to him for his faith now carried the voice that ca...
...e victory had been confirmed by divine intervention and the Quraysh understood that the balance of power in Arabia had shifted ...
...y of the covenant and the tribe's actual alignment with the Qurayshi opposition. The precipitating incident involved a Muslim ...
...he second major battle between the Muslim community and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Quraysh came seeking revenge for Badr, arrivi...
...ty. He said he would take retaliatory mutilation of seventy Qurayshi dead, but the revelation of Surah al-Nahl (16:126) descend...
...d fought at Uhud to march out in pursuit of the withdrawing Qurayshi army. The purpose was not primarily military but psycholog...
...m teachers into their territory for capture and sale to the Quraysh. When the ambush was revealed, the Banu Lihyan called out ...
...alition of approximately 10,000 fighters assembled from the Quraysh, the Ghatafan, and allied tribes, organized largely by Banu...
...ut. Their chief Ka'b ibn Asad had held firm against earlier Qurayshi overtures but was persuaded by Huyayy ibn Akhtab — a Banu ...
...ould preserve his life long enough to see the conflict with Quraysh resolved and to be present for the judgment of Banu Qurayza...
...ement of the Medinan period — a ten-year ceasefire with the Quraysh that appeared to the companions as humiliation but proved, ...
...s delayed and a rumor spread that he had been killed by the Quraysh, the Prophet ﷺ called the companions to pledge. He sat unde...
...ous address to the Negus's court defending Islam before the Qurayshi delegation, arrived with the returning emigrants. The Prop...
...to turn back from Mecca. The treaty had stipulated that the Quraysh would vacate the city for three days the following year and...
...t turned a Muslim victory into near-catastrophe. He led the Qurayshi cavalry around the mountain, struck the Muslim rear, and b...
...ished a ten-year truce between the Muslim community and the Quraysh, with a clause protecting the security of each party's alli...
...e received a general amnesty. The immediate trigger was the Quraysh's violation of the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah by supporting an a...
...fyan received 100 camels, his sons similarly, other leading Qurayshi and tribal converts generously. The Ansar received nothing...
...Arabia, the calculus for every remaining tribe changed. The Quraysh had accepted Islam en masse. The Hawazin-Thaqif confederacy...
...first Muslim emigrants and refused to extradite them to the Quraysh — died in Rajab 9 AH. The news reached the Prophet ﷺ in Med...
...the Elephant, into the noble clan of the Banu Hashim of the Quraysh. His father Abdullah died before his birth, and his mother ...
...ted to Christianity — not the popular pagan religion of his Qurayshi tribe — and had devoted his life to studying the ancient s...
... tradition, proved decisive in defending Medina against the Qurayshi-led coalition of ten thousand. The Muhajirun claimed Salma...
...yah ibn Hisham, known as al-Dakhil (the Immigrant) and Saqr Quraysh (Falcon of the Quraysh), was the sole survivor of the Abbas...
...ment between the nascent Muslim community of Medina and the Quraysh of Mecca. On 17 Ramadan, 2 AH, approximately 313 Muslims fa...
The Battle of Uhud was fought one year after Badr when the Quraysh, smarting from their defeat, returned with an army of appro...
...Ahzab (the Confederates), saw an unprecedented coalition of Quraysh, Ghatafan, and various Arab and Jewish tribes besiege Medin...
...ment in the Hejaz, whose inhabitants had conspired with the Quraysh and other enemies against the Muslims. The Prophet ﷺ led ap...
...ity that had been expelled from it years earlier. After the Quraysh violated the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah by attacking a tribe all...
...who had fought the previous day to march out and pursue the Qurayshi army. This bold move, taken despite the wounds and exhaust...
...the encounter was a propaganda victory for the Muslims: the Quraysh who had promised to come back had retreated without engagin...
Leader of Quraysh who accepted Islam at the conquest of Mecca.
Paternal uncle of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and one of the most vehement opponents of Islam, the only individual condemned by name in the Quran in Surah al-Masad (111)
The chief leader of Qurayshi opposition to the Prophet ﷺ, known as the 'Pharaoh of this...
Wife of Abu Lahab and sister of Abu Sufyan, condemned in Surah al-Masad (111:4) as a 'carrier of firewood' for her active role in persecuting the Prophet ﷺ.
Qurayshi persecutor who placed the intestines of a slaughtered anim...
Wealthy and influential Qurayshi leader whose arrogant rejection of the Quran is directly a...
Wife of Abu Sufyan who fiercely opposed Islam before the Conquest of Makkah, later accepted Islam and became a companion. She is known for her role at the Battl
Qurayshi enemy who mocked the resurrection and was killed by the Pr...
Qurayshi intellectual opponent who sought to counter the Quran with...
The Prophet's uncle and one of the greatest warriors of early Islam, martyred at Uhud.
The daughter of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and wife of Ali ibn Abi Talib, one of the four greatest women in Islamic tradition.
One of the ten companions promised Paradise and a leading figure among the early Muslims.
One of the ten companions promised Paradise and one of the wealthiest yet most charitable companions.
One of the ten companions promised Paradise and among the earliest converts to Islam.
One of the ten companions promised Paradise, supreme commander of the Levant campaigns, and the Trustee of the Ummah.
The mother of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, who died when he was six years old.
The grandfather of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and chief of the Quraysh, who raised him after his mother's death.
The father of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, who died before his son's birth on a trading journey to Medina.
The Prophet's uncle who raised and fiercely protected him for his entire prophetic career — but died without accepting Islam.
The learned Christian cousin of Khadijah who recognized the Prophet's first revelation as the same Namus (Jibril) who came to Musa AS.
The first ambassador of Islam, sent by the Prophet to Medina before the Hijra, whose preaching brought hundreds into Islam.
The Meccan leader who tortured Bilal ibn Rabah and was killed at the Battle of Badr.
A prominent Meccan leader and father of Hind bint Utbah who tried to negotiate with the Prophet and was killed at Badr.
A powerful Meccan elder who was directly addressed in the Quran (Surah al-Muddaththir) for his arrogant rejection of the Quran after privately acknowledging it
The Quraysh delegate who negotiated the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah with the ...
Son of Abu Jahl, initially a fierce enemy of Islam. He embraced Islam at the Conquest of Makkah and became a gallant warrior. He was martyred at the Battle of A
A leading Qurayshi nobleman and son of Umayyah ibn Khalaf. Initially opposed ...
A blind companion of Quraysh who was an early Muslim and substitute muadhdhin in Madinah...
An early companion who provided his house in Makkah as the first meeting place for Muslims, known as 'Dar al-Arqam' (House of al-Arqam). The Prophet ﷺ and the e
A companion who served as a scribe for the Prophet ﷺ, then apostatized and fled to Makkah. He was one of those the Prophet ﷺ ordered to be killed at the Conques
A companion and prominent Umayyad leader who served as governor of Kufa under Uthman ibn Affan. Known for his eloquence, generosity, and noble character — the P
...het's ﷺ permission, used deception to sow discord among the Quraysh, Banu Nadir, and Ghatafan, causing the alliance to break ap...
One of the earliest converts to Islam and the first Muslim to emigrate to Madinah (before the Hijrah). He was a foster brother of the Prophet ﷺ and the first hu
One of the earliest converts to Islam and a prominent companion known for his extreme asceticism. He was the first Muslim to die in Madinah (before the Battle o
...ition in Islam — the raid at Nakhla (2 AH) which captured a Qurayshi caravan. He was martyred at the Battle of Uhud in 3 AH. Hi...
A companion who was the brother of Amr ibn al-As. One of the early converts in Makkah, he and his brother were separated — Amr emigrated to Abyssinia but Hisham
A cousin and former adversary of the Prophet ﷺ who was one of the last to accept Islam before the Conquest of Makkah. He had previously been the most eloquent e
A Qurayshi who came to Madinah after Badr with the intent to assassin...
An early companion from Quraysh and son of Utbah ibn Rabi'ah (the Qurayshi leader killed at...
Son of the pre-Islamic poet Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma. He initially lampooned the Prophet ﷺ with poetry but later came to Madinah, accepted Islam, and presented his
A companion known as 'Mirqal' for his bravery, nephew of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas. He commanded the Muslim forces at the decisive Battle of Jalula (16 AH) after Qadi
Son of Suhayl ibn Amr and one of the most poignant figures of the Hudaybiyyah Treaty. He escaped his Meccan captors to reach the Prophet but was handed back und
A Qurayshi Muslim who was handed back to Mecca under the Hudaybiyyah ...
...ated to Abyssinia. He was captured at Badr initially on the Qurayshi side before his conversion, then ransomed and accepted Isl...
...ompanion and martyr of Bi'r Ma'unah (4 AH). Captured by the Quraysh and crucified near Makkah, his serenity in the face of deat...
One of the 'Ashara Mubashshara (Ten Given Glad Tidings of Paradise). The Apostle's ﷺ 'disciple' and cousin. He was the first to draw a sword in defense of Islam
...ly female Muslim from Makkah who worked secretly to convert Qurayshi women to Islam.
...sham and one of the Seven Fuqaha of Medina. Known as 'Rahib Quraysh' (the monk of Quraysh) for his extreme piety and fasting, h...
Medinan jurist of Qurayshi descent, known for his courage in speaking truth to power ...
... major battle in Islamic history: 313 Muslims against 1,000 Quraysh, and how divine aid secured victory.
The second major battle: the reversal of fortune, the wounding of the Prophet, and the lessons for the ummah.
The first Muslim migration: seeking refuge from Quraysh persecution under the Christian king al-Najashi.
...ajor battle in Islam, where 313 Muslims defeated over 1,000 Quraysh warriors with divine aid on the 17th of Ramadan, 2 AH.