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...r ancestry through the line of Ibrahim and Ismail. Islamic tradition preserves a remarkable account surrounding the marriage: Ab...
...ly generations; the twelfth is most widely cited in popular tradition, while scholars including Ibn Hazm have argued for the nint...
...red months — specifically Dhul-Qa'dah — when all combat was traditionally forbidden by Arab custom. The violation of this ancient...
...mbed Abu Qubays hill and called out publicly in verse — the traditional Arab method of shaming a wrongdoer — naming al-As ibn Wa'...
...ssistance from his uncle Abu Talib — and Abu Talib gave the traditional marriage speech at the ceremony. Khadijah's decision to ...
...a public vantage point — and called out "Ya sabahah!" — the traditional alarm cry that summoned people to an emergency. The Quray...
...hrough which the greatest transmission channel of prophetic tradition entered the Muslim ummah. His conversion and subsequent ret...
...protection of a just ruler who would eventually, in Islamic tradition, accept Islam privately before his death. The Prophet ﷺ lat...
...letely Khadijah lived in his memory. Her station in Islamic tradition is among the highest of any woman: the Prophet ﷺ named her ...
...as ever migrated for the sake of their faith stands in this tradition.
...en in poverty — became a permanent ethical ideal in Islamic tradition, enshrined by the Quran and embodied by the generation that...
...inning. The Prophet ﷺ elaborated the practice in prophetic tradition: the suhur (pre-dawn meal) as a blessing, the hastening of ...
...d Quranic verse in the daily practice of Muslims across all traditions — recited after every prayer, at bedtime, as protection be...
... of Paradise. The marriage itself became a model in Islamic tradition: a union arranged by the Prophet ﷺ on the basis of characte...
...ed the child Hasan — a name with no prior precedent in Arab tradition, chosen (according to some narrations) under divine suggest...
...n before it, the name Husayn had no prior precedent in Arab tradition and was, according to some narrations, divinely suggested. ...
... raka'at before execution became the model for what Islamic tradition calls the martyr's final prayer, a practice he established....
...anu Qurayza would themselves have recognized from their own tradition — making it the most theologically resonant of the three tr...
...he title Jafar al-Tayyar (Jafar the Flyer) that the Islamic tradition carries to this day. The expedition to Mutah permanently ma...
...Nurayn (Possessor of Two Lights) that he carries in Islamic tradition. The Prophet ﷺ reportedly said: 'If I had a third daughter,...