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Clear filter... the pick struck the ancient well and water surged forth, Quraysh immediately disputed his right to sole custodianship. The...
...nu Zuhra clan united two of the finest lineages in all of Quraysh, both tracing their ancestry through the line of Ibrahim ...
... to negotiate the return of two hundred camels taken from Quraysh's herds. Abraha expressed surprise that Abd al-Muttalib s...
...bwa and wept openly, saying he had requested permission to pray for her forgiveness but was not permitted. The death of Abd...
...ammad." Abd al-Muttalib carried the newborn to the Ka'bah, prayed, and announced the name — unusual in Arabia, chosen becau...
... having lived a life of extraordinary influence: chief of Quraysh, custodian of the Ka'bah, discoverer of Zamzam, the man w...
... central to Mecca's economy and to the education of young Qurayshi men: the journey through the Hejaz and Jordanian highlan...
...e a series of conflicts between the Hawazin tribe and the Quraysh-Kinanah alliance, erupting in approximately 590 CE when t...
...d'an al-Taymi in Mecca, involving noble men from multiple Qurayshi clans including Banu Hashim, Banu Muttalib, Banu Asad, B...
...he Ka'bah in Mecca was damaged by flood and fire, and the Quraysh undertook a complete reconstruction. They organized the w...
...Quran: it is the only surah recited in every unit of every prayer, seventeen times each day for every Muslim who prays. The...
...r ibn Abi Quhafa was among the most respected free men of Quraysh, the Prophet's close friend, who accepted without hesitat...
...am in the practical sense — the place where congregational prayer was first established — and the first school, where the P...
...ional alarm cry that summoned people to an emergency. The Quraysh gathered, wondering what emergency had brought him there....
...he Prophet ﷺ began preaching Islam publicly in Mecca, the Quraysh leadership moved swiftly against the early Muslim communi...
...traveled to Mecca during the pilgrimage season, where the Quraysh intercept him with a warning: Muhammad ﷺ was a dangerous ...
...eant it? He spent the night wrestling with this question — praying to Allah, the God his nephew had described, asking for c...
...ng refuge without demanding anything in return. When the Quraysh learned of the migration, they sent Amr ibn al-As and Abd...
...mposing, intellectually confident, deeply invested in the Qurayshi social order that Muhammad ﷺ was dismantling with every ...
...d Sea in secret. When a false rumor reached them that the Quraysh had converted to Islam, many returned — only to find the ...
...ual persecution failed to break the Muslim community, the Quraysh escalated to collective punishment at the clan level. In ...
...onsequential non-Muslim protector in Islamic history. The Quraysh could not act against the Prophet ﷺ so long as Abu Talib ...
...the domestic anchor of the Prophet's ﷺ life in Mecca. The Quraysh tested the new situation immediately: a man threw dirt on...
...het ﷺ stopped at the wall of a garden outside the city and prayed what became one of the most moving prayers in the seerah:...
...ophet ﷺ entered Mecca, circumambulated the Kaaba, and the Quraysh who saw him asked Mut'im whether he had followed Muhammad...
...phet ﷺ used this gathering to reach people beyond Mecca's Qurayshi society. Abu Lahab followed him from tribe to tribe war...
...t' (abdihi) denoting body and soul, and the fact that the Quraysh's reaction the next morning was disbelief at a physical c...
...and spent approximately a year teaching the Quran, leading prayers, and presenting Islam. His most significant achievement ...
...othes and fine perfume, from the Abd al-Dar branch of the Quraysh. He had accepted Islam in the early secret period, been i...
...ent to the oath. The pledge was made in secrecy, but the Quraysh learned of it the next day. The Yathribi leaders who had ...
... Mecca for Yathrib after the Second Pledge of Aqabah, the Quraysh convened an emergency council at Dar al-Nadwa to determin...
... cave of Thawr. They traveled with the guide Abd Allah ibn Urayqit along the coastal route — deliberately longer than the d...
...pproximately two weeks via the coastal route to avoid the Quraysh search parties. He stopped at the home of Kulthum ibn Hid...
The first Friday prayer (Salat al-Jumu'ah) led by the Prophet ﷺ in the Medinan re...
...proximately fourteen days at Quba and led the first Friday prayer in the valley of Banu Salim. He rode al-Qaswa and let the...
...ponded: 'If we sit while the Prophet works, that would be straying from the path.' The initial structure was simple: dried ...
...ar, and the Jewish tribes (Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir, Banu Qurayza, and others). This document — the Sahifat al-Medina, pres...
The adhan — the Islamic call to prayer — was instituted in Medina in the first year after the Hi...
The qiblah — the direction of prayer — was changed from Jerusalem to Mecca in the second year ...
...hastening of iftar (breaking fast at Maghrib), the Tarawih prayers at night, and the i'tikaf (seclusion in the mosque) duri...
...ran mentions it 82 times, almost always paired with salah (prayer) — 'establish prayer and give zakat' — placing the obliga...
...ed its protective power in practice. In the hadith of Abu Hurayrah and the jinn who came to steal from the zakat food — pre...
...an years, establishing the practice of visiting graves and praying for those buried: 'Peace upon the inhabitants of this ab...
...victory had been confirmed by divine intervention and the Quraysh understood that the balance of power in Arabia had shifte...
... of the Prophet ﷺ, earning him the permanent title Dhu al-Nurayn: the Possessor of Two Lights. Ruqayyah's life — two migrat...
...of the covenant and the tribe's actual alignment with the Qurayshi opposition. The precipitating incident involved a Musli...
...ily.' To Ali: 'I have given you the best of my family.' He prayed over them: 'O Allah, bless them and bless their union and...
...d.' He would carry them on his shoulders, hold them during prayer rather than set them down, and interrupt his own prostrat...
... second major battle between the Muslim community and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Quraysh came seeking revenge for Badr, arri...
.... After the battle ended with the Muslim formation in disarray, Hind moved through the field of the dead. When she found H...
...fought at Uhud to march out in pursuit of the withdrawing Qurayshi army. The purpose was not primarily military but psychol...
...d.' He would carry them on his shoulders, hold them during prayer rather than set them down, and sit with them pressed agai...
... for approximately fifteen days. No support arrived. Banu Qurayza, honoring their own covenant obligations, did not join th...
...verse. Stage two (Surah al-Nisa' 4:43) forbade approaching prayer while intoxicated, which — with five daily prayers at fix...
...teachers into their territory for capture and sale to the Quraysh. When the ambush was revealed, the Banu Lihyan called ou...
...qunut al-nazila (supplication during calamity) at the Fajr prayer for a month against Ri'l, Dhakwan, and Usayya by name. An...
...a. The Muslim force surprised the tribe at the well of al-Muraysi', killed their fighters in a swift engagement, and took m...
...ition of approximately 10,000 fighters assembled from the Quraysh, the Ghatafan, and allied tribes, organized largely by Ba...
Banu Qurayza, the last of Medina's three major Jewish tribes still in ...
...edina from the 10,000-strong confederate coalition. He had prayed that Allah would preserve his life long enough to see the...
...ent of the Medinan period — a ten-year ceasefire with the Quraysh that appeared to the companions as humiliation but proved...
...delayed and a rumor spread that he had been killed by the Quraysh, the Prophet ﷺ called the companions to pledge. He sat un...
...d lived in his kingdom for years — and the Prophet ﷺ later prayed the funeral prayer (salat al-gha'ib) over him when he die...
...s address to the Negus's court defending Islam before the Qurayshi delegation, arrived with the returning emigrants. The Pr...
... turn back from Mecca. The treaty had stipulated that the Quraysh would vacate the city for three days the following year a...
...turned a Muslim victory into near-catastrophe. He led the Qurayshi cavalry around the mountain, struck the Muslim rear, and...
...hed a ten-year truce between the Muslim community and the Quraysh, with a clause protecting the security of each party's al...
...received a general amnesty. The immediate trigger was the Quraysh's violation of the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah by supporting an...
...an received 100 camels, his sons similarly, other leading Qurayshi and tribal converts generously. The Ansar received nothi...
...built a mosque near Masjid Quba and asked the Prophet ﷺ to pray in it and bless it, claiming it served worshippers who were...
...abia, the calculus for every remaining tribe changed. The Quraysh had accepted Islam en masse. The Hawazin-Thaqif confedera...
...et ﷺ had withdrawn the siege after fifteen to twenty days, praying for their guidance rather than invoking a curse. Nearly ...
... for his caliphate — alongside his appointment to lead the prayer during the Prophet's ﷺ final illness. The 9 AH Hajj also ...
...rst Muslim emigrants and refused to extradite them to the Quraysh — died in Rajab 9 AH. The news reached the Prophet ﷺ in M...
...ers to marry the same man, giving Uthman the title Dhu al-Nurayn (Possessor of Two Lights) that he carries in Islamic tradi...
... or life of anyone. When you see an eclipse, make du'a and pray.' The correction — made in the very hour of personal grief ...
.... During the illness, the Prophet ﷺ continued to lead the prayer when he could. When he became too weak, he directed Abu B...
...of their prophets as mosques.' He repeated the emphasis on prayer and the rights of those whom the right hands possessed. ...
...is last in Aisha's apartment. Muslims entered in groups to pray over him individually, without a single imam leading. He wa...