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12 Rabi al-Awwal, 53 BH Birth of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

... that day, he said, "That is the day I was born and the day revelation came to me." His father Abdullah had died months earlier in...

49 BH Splitting of the Chest

...honor, ensuring that the vessel through which Allah's final revelation would flow was purified from any avenue of demonic influenc...

34 BH Hilf al-Fudul (Pact of the Virtuous)

...rs of the social ethics the Prophet ﷺ would articulate when revelation came.

28 BH Marriage to Khadijah bint Khuwaylid

...gnificance lies in what happened at the moment of the first revelation. When the Prophet ﷺ returned from Cave Hira trembling with ...

18 BH Rebuilding of the Ka'bah and the Black Stone Dispute

Approximately five years before the first revelation — when the Prophet ﷺ was about thirty-five — the Ka'bah in ...

13 BH Spiritual Retreat in Cave Hira

In the years before revelation came to him, the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ developed a practice of...

17 Ramadan, 13 BH First Revelation in Cave Hira

The first revelation of the Quran came to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ during one of h...

13 BH Revelation of Surah al-Muddaththir

After the first revelation in Cave Hira and the subsequent pause (al-fatra) during whi...

13 BH Revelation of Surah al-Fatiha

... of Islam and a theological masterpiece. The timing of the revelation of al-Fatiha is debated among classical scholars. Some plac...

13 BH Period of Secret Dawah

For approximately three years after the first revelation, the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ shared Islam privately with a caref...

10 BH Gatherings at Dar al-Arqam

...Ka'bah served as the center where the Prophet ﷺ would teach revelation to the growing community of believers. The house served mu...

10 BH Persecution of Early Muslims

... suffering rather than defending through force. The Quranic revelations of the Meccan period repeatedly invoked the stories of pre...

Ramadan, 4 BH Death of Khadijah bint Khuwaylid

...first person to hear the Prophet's ﷺ account of the initial revelation and affirm it without hesitation — and the woman who had su...

Safar, 1 AH Quraysh Plot to Assassinate the Prophet

...ather than retaliation. The Prophet ﷺ was informed through revelation and went to Abu Bakr's house at midday — an unusual hour th...

1 AH Revelation of Surah al-Baqarah

...ss the entire Medinan decade, completed at its very end The revelation of Surah al-Baqarah across the entire decade of the Medinan...

Sha'ban, 2 AH Change of Qiblah from Jerusalem to Mecca

... the Prophet's ﷺ arrival in Medina. The change came through revelation during a prayer at the mosque of the Banu Salima — Ibn Abba...

2 AH Revelation of Ayat al-Kursi

Ayat al-Kursi — verse 255 of Surah al-Baqarah — is identified by the Prophet ﷺ himself as the greatest verse in the Quran. When asked directly which verse in th

7 Shawwal, 3 AH Martyrdom of Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib at Uhud

...ke retaliatory mutilation of seventy Qurayshi dead, but the revelation of Surah al-Nahl (16:126) descended commanding restraint: '...

Sha'ban, 5 AH Battle of Banu al-Mustaliq (al-Muraysi')

...uage that reached the Prophet ﷺ through Zayd ibn Arqam. The revelation of Surah al-Munafiqun (63) confirmed the hypocrisy, condemn...

Sha'ban, 5 AH The Incident of al-Ifk (The Slander of Aisha)

...s bloodied shirt. The Prophet ﷺ was still present when the revelation descended. When it lifted, he was smiling: 'Allah has decla...

5 AH Revelation of the Hijab Verse

...diate practical obedience and deep personal conviction. The revelation of the hijab verses is one of the clearest examples in the ...

5 AH Marriage of the Prophet to Zaynab bint Jahsh

...ed counsel to keep it, and Zayd divorced her. Then came the revelation directing the Prophet ﷺ to marry her himself — a command co...

8 AH Quraysh Violate the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah

...ter warning the Quraysh, the Prophet ﷺ was informed through revelation and intercepted it. Hatib confessed and explained he had fe...

9 AH Destruction of Masjid al-Dirar

...gh the mosque died before it could be activated, exposed by revelation before he could return to use it. The case of Masjid al-Dir...

Dhul-Hijjah, 10 AH The Farewell Pilgrimage (Hajjat al-Wada')

...eligion signaled the nearness of the Prophet's ﷺ death. The revelation arrived at the theological climax of the seerah: twenty-thr...

9 Dhul-Hijjah, 10 AH Revelation of the Verse of Completion of Religion

...n. Umar ibn al-Khattab, asked about the day and time of its revelation, confirmed it was at Arafat on a Friday — the day was doubl...

Dhul-Hijjah, 10 AH The Last Verse of the Quran Revealed

... by the Prophet ﷺ himself under divine guidance. The end of revelation was not the end of the Quran but its completion: the text w...

Safar, 11 AH Final Illness of the Prophet

...irst word in the Cave of Hira; what remained was a complete revelation committed to memory by thousands, a Sunnah documented by th...

12 Rabi al-Awwal, 11 AH Death of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

...a. The death of the Prophet ﷺ closed twenty-three years of revelation: from the first word in the Cave of Hira to the final breat...