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55 BH Marriage of Abdullah and Aminah

...e: Abdullah carried a visible luminous mark — understood by scholars as the nur (prophetic light) of the final Prophet, passed ...

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

...he twelfth is most widely cited in popular tradition, while scholars including Ibn Hazm have argued for the ninth. The Prophet ...

53 BH Foster Care with Halimah al-Sa'diyyah

...in Mecca with thin animals and little milk. Among them was Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb al-Sa'diyyah, whose donkey could barely k...

49 BH Splitting of the Chest

... theological significance is carefully explained by Islamic scholars: the "clot of blood" represents the vulnerability to Shayt...

47 BH Death of Aminah bint Wahb

...ecently returned from his years of desert foster care with Halimah. He was just beginning to know his mother — and now she w...

13 BH Spiritual Retreat in Cave Hira

...rose from his own spiritual orientation before prophethood. Scholars of the seerah describe it as an expression of the natural ...

17 Ramadan, 13 BH First Revelation in Cave Hira

...then took him to her cousin Waraqah ibn Nawfal, a Christian scholar of the previous scriptures, who confirmed: "This is the sam...

Ramadan, 13 BH Khadijah Becomes the First Believer

...t ﷺ to her cousin Waraqah ibn Nawfal — an elderly Christian scholar who had studied the previous scriptures in depth and could ...

13 BH Revelation of Surah al-Muddaththir

...ly. The command to "purify your garments" was understood by scholars both literally (physical cleanliness as a mark of ritual p...

13 BH Revelation of Surah al-Fatiha

...g of the revelation of al-Fatiha is debated among classical scholars. Some place it among the earliest Meccan revelations — clo...

10 BH Gatherings at Dar al-Arqam

...om of choosing al-Arqam's house is recognized by the seerah scholars: al-Arqam was from the Banu Makhzum, the same clan as Abu ...

10 BH Public Declaration of Islam

...eby disprove the Quran, yet never did — a fact that Islamic scholars have noted as one of the embedded proofs of the Quran's di...

Dhul-Hijjah, 8 BH Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib Accepts Islam

...pond to physical persecution with physical force. Classical scholars note that after his conversion, the outright mistreatment ...

Rajab, 4 BH Death of Abu Talib

...can mission possible. He was not a Muslim, in the classical scholarly consensus, but he was the most consequential non-Muslim p...

4 BH Year of Sorrow

...usalem and the ascent through the heavens — which classical scholars understand as a divine mercy given to the Prophet ﷺ at the...

27 Rajab, 1 BH The Night Journey and Ascension (Isra and Mi'raj)

...e Prophet's ﷺ earthly biography. Its date is disputed among scholars; the majority place it in the eleventh or twelfth year of ...

12 Rabi al-Awwal, 1 AH First Friday (Jumu'ah) Prayer

...llowing his departure from Quba, in the valley of the Banu Salim ibn Awf — approximately one hundred Muslims gathering in an...

12 Rabi al-Awwal, 1 AH Arrival in Medina

...Quba and led the first Friday prayer in the valley of Banu Salim. He rode al-Qaswa and let the camel walk freely through the...

1 AH Building of Masjid al-Nabawi

...rophet ﷺ produced the hadith record that has shaped Islamic scholarship for fourteen centuries. Adjacent to the mosque the Prop...

1 AH Constitution of Medina

...y after the Hijra — within the first year according to most scholars — the Prophet ﷺ promulgated a written compact between the ...

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

...rough revelation during a prayer at the mosque of the Banu Salima — Ibn Abbas narrates that the Prophet ﷺ had been turning h...

Safar, 4 AH The Massacre of Bir Ma'unah

...esenting the greatest single blow to the Muslim community's scholarly transmission in the early Medinan period. The two disaste...

Dhul-Qi'dah, 5 AH Siege of Banu Qurayza

...nance. Sa'd ibn Mu'adh's judgment has been noted by Islamic scholars as one that applied the same Deuteronomic standard (20:10-...

8 AH Quraysh Violate the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah

...ns and joined the attack under cover of darkness. Amr ibn Salim al-Khuza'i brought the news to Medina and appealed to the P...

20 Ramadan, 8 AH Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makkah)

...ost studied events in the history of political governance — scholars including W. Montgomery Watt have noted that it stands in ...

Dhul-Qi'dah, 8 AH Distribution of Hunayn Spoils at Ji'ranah

...etween the tribe and the Prophet ﷺ — he had been nursed by Halimah al-Sa'diyya of the Hawazin — requesting the return of the...

9 AH Destruction of Masjid al-Dirar

...ed to Islam — a distinction that classical and contemporary scholars apply wherever the issue arises. Abu Amir al-Rahib, for wh...

Rajab, 9 AH Death of the Negus (al-Najashi) of Abyssinia

...tical situation. The Prophet's ﷺ prayer over him is read by scholars as confirmation that the Negus died a Muslim. The salat a...

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

...ement of perfection, the implication of departure. A Jewish scholar who heard the verse reportedly told Umar that if such a ver...

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

...refully studied in the sciences of the Quran. The classical scholars acknowledge multiple candidates, each with a chain of tran...