71 results for “sin”
Clear filter... left with five camels, a small flock of sheep, and the Abyssinian servant Barakah (Umm Ayman), who would care for the Prop...
...ifying vanguard of Abraha al-Ashram's army. Abraha, the Abyssinian viceroy of Yemen, had built a grand cathedral (the Qulla...
...heritance: five camels, a small flock of sheep, and the Abyssinian servant Barakah (Umm Ayman), who would become like a mot...
...t — approximately 570 CE. The precise date has been debated since the early generations; the twelfth is most widely cited i...
...lowed the custom of sending infants to desert tribes for nursing — prizing the purity of bedouin Arabic and the health bene...
...in you," washed his heart with Zamzam water from a golden basin, and replaced it — all while he was conscious. His foster b...
...ive years old, Khadijah bint Khuwaylid — a wealthy Meccan businesswoman and twice-widowed merchant — approached him through...
...ght to forty-five. She was a wealthy and respected Meccan businesswoman, twice-widowed, who had initiated the proposal afte...
... accept him!" The Prophet ﷺ did not assign the honor to any single clan. He asked for a cloth to be spread on the ground, p...
... assist every righteous cause." She then took him to her cousin Waraqah ibn Nawfal, a Christian scholar of the previous scr...
...n took decisive action. She brought the Prophet ﷺ to her cousin Waraqah ibn Nawfal — an elderly Christian scholar who had s...
...ry of human spiritual practice. Every Muslim who has prayed since the time of the Prophet ﷺ has recited al-Fatiha seventeen...
...social standing. Ali ibn Abi Talib — the Prophet's young cousin living in his household — was approximately ten years old; ...
...d commitment to the new faith. The strategic wisdom of choosing al-Arqam's house is recognized by the seerah scholars: al-...
...ou gathered us?" — and walked away, most of the crowd dispersing with him. The Quran responded with Surah al-Masad (Chapter...
...stasy when the heart remains firm. Bilal ibn Rabah — an Abyssinian slave owned by Umayyah ibn Khalaf — was placed in the de...
...y a just Christian king — the Negus Ashama ibn Abjar of Abyssinia — who would not permit injustice under his authority. Mus...
...He was one of the most feared men in Mecca — physically imposing, intellectually confident, deeply invested in the Qurayshi...
The first migration to Abyssinia had taken approximately fifteen Muslims across the Red Se...
...uzn — the Year of Sorrow. Abu Talib, his uncle and guardian since childhood, died first — the man whose tribal authority ha...
...alem and the ascent through the seven heavens — is the most singular event in the Prophet's ﷺ earthly biography. Its date i...
... — which triggered the conversion of their entire clan in a single evening. Musab also established the first Jumu'ah prayer...
...oned by his family, eventually escaped, and migrated to Abyssinia. When the Prophet ﷺ chose him for Yathrib, the choice was...
...after the Quraysh convened the council that decided on assassination. The Second Pledge of Aqabah was the moment at which I...
...hers surrounding the house. Ali agreed. That night the assassins gathered outside, waiting for dawn. The Prophet ﷺ walked o...
...g has been sung in Muslim communities across the world ever since — a communal memory of the day the city became al-Madinah...
...Prophet ﷺ delivered the first recorded Jumu'ah khutbah: praising Allah, testifying to His oneness, addressing piety, death,...
...s song has been sung in Muslim communities across the world since. The connection to Banu Najjar was personally significant...
...uslims (Muhajirin and Ansar) and their allies constituted a single ummah, distinct from other people. The Jewish tribes wer...
...be praised,' said the Prophet ﷺ. Bilal ibn Rabah — the Abyssinian freed slave who had endured torture in Mecca for saying ...
...Medinan period. Unlike the concentrated Meccan surahs addressing faith and spiritual formation, Surah al-Baqarah is a compr...
...ck rows. The qiblah toward Jerusalem had been the practice since the Meccan period, consistent with the orientation of the...
... in prophetic tradition: the suhur (pre-dawn meal) as a blessing, the hastening of iftar (breaking fast at Maghrib), the Ta...
...al-Qayyum (the Self-Subsisting Sustainer), freedom from drowsiness or sleep, absolute ownership of all that exists in the h...
...He had been among the earliest Muslims, had migrated to Abyssinia twice, and had made the Hijra to Medina. He died of illne...
...l fulfill what He has promised you.' The battle began with single combat: Qurayshi champions killed by Hamza, Ali, and Uba...
...Uthman and Ruqayyah were the first to make the Hijra to Abyssinia, and among those who made the second Hijra as well. The P...
...atimah has been recited by Muslim women in every generation since. Fatimah and Ali had five children: Hasan, Husayn, Zayna...
...o childhood. (Ali and Fatimah had lost an earlier child, Muhsin, in infancy.) The Prophet ﷺ was present at the birth and im...
... archers on a strategic pass in the mountain, giving them a single command: do not leave your positions regardless of what ...
...H by a javelin thrown by Wahshi ibn Harb. Wahshi was an Abyssinian slave owned by Jubayr ibn Mut'im, hired specifically by ...
... welcomed their children into the world in every generation since.
...y ibn Salul — the Medinan hypocrite leader — sent word promising two thousand fighters in their defense if they stayed. The...
...tage one (Surah al-Baqarah 2:219) reframed wine in terms of sin and benefit without prohibiting it — simply noting that the...
...ective calamity, practiced in mosques across the world ever since.
The Bi'r Ma'una massacre in Safar 4 AH was the single largest loss of life the Muslim community sustained outs...
...ishah later said: 'I know of no woman who was a greater blessing to her people than Juwayriyah.' An entire captured people ...
...pread the accusation through the Muslim community, and some sincere companions who failed to verify transmitted it further....
...emain uncovered. The Quranic framework is notable for addressing women directly as moral agents: 'tell the believing women'...
... one of the most striking in the corpus: a statement that a single human being's death moved the Throne of Allah, expressin...
... sent letters to the kings of Persia, Byzantium, Egypt, Abyssinia, and other powers during this period. Thousands entered I...
...us of Byzantium, Khosrow Parviz of Persia, the Negus of Abyssinia, al-Muqawqis of Egypt, and the Ghassanid king. The respon...
...tled at Khaybar's fortified settlements and spent the years since organizing the confederate coalition against Medina. The ...
The first Muslims to emigrate from Mecca had fled to Abyssinia in the fifth year of prophethood, seeking the protection ...
...ysh had claimed was theirs alone. Bilal ibn Rabah — the Abyssinian slave who had been tortured in Mecca for accepting Islam...
...he Quraysh's most capable men had joined the community in a single movement. Khalid was tested almost immediately. At the ...
...All three fell. The Muslim force had arrived to face an opposing coalition — Byzantine and Ghassanid — that the sources est...
...pocrites found every excuse not to go. The response of the sincere companions was extraordinary. Abu Bakr brought his enti...
...the Expedition of Tabuk was the extraordinary case of three sincere companions — Ka'b ibn Malik, Murarah ibn al-Rabi, and H...
...on the difference between a genuine mosque and a structure using the form of a mosque for purposes fundamentally opposed to...
...slamic governance, transmitted across the Muslim world ever since.
...fort of new converts — has governed Islamic da'wah practice since the day the Thaqif delegation left Medina without the con...
The Negus Ashama ibn Abjar — the Christian king of Abyssinia who had sheltered the first Muslim emigrants and refused ...
...with her through her illness at the Prophet's ﷺ command, missing the Battle of Badr. The Prophet ﷺ assured Uthman he would ...
...s directly from what the Prophet ﷺ did and narrated at this single pilgrimage. The Hajj is not a symbolic reenactment of th...
...ow, and the transmission has never stopped. The sermon's closing question — 'Have I conveyed?' — and the crowd's answer — '...
...ecoming the defining obligation of Islamic scholarship ever since. Every Quranic verse, in its surah and its position withi...
...e carried out regardless of the crisis that followed his passing. The Prophet ﷺ who had appointed Usamah's father Zayd at M...
...mpanions. O Allah, with the highest companions.' He was choosing between continuation in this world and joining the prophet...
...panions. O Allah, with the highest companions' — he was choosing the company of prophets and the righteous in the highest r...
... entered in groups to pray over him individually, without a single imam leading. He was buried in the middle of the night.