55 results for “war”
Clear filter...lves available to marry him, hoping a son might carry it forward. On the day of his wedding to Aminah, the narrations state...
... Aam al-Fil, approximately 570 CE — takes its name from the war elephants that formed the terrifying vanguard of Abraha al-...
...e meal, Bahira drew Abu Talib aside and delivered a private warning: this boy has a great destiny; guard him carefully from...
The Harb al-Fijar — the Sacrilegious Wars — were a series of conflicts between the Hawazin tribe and...
...e men who responded were already troubled by what the Fijar Wars had demonstrated: that the sacred months could be violated...
...stablished Meccan summer trade route through the Hejaz northward to the Byzantine trading centers of Syria — particularly t...
...— and no clan was willing to yield. The dispute escalated toward violence; some accounts record that clan chiefs dipped the...
...ist every righteous cause." She then took him to her cousin Waraqah ibn Nawfal, a Christian scholar of the previous scriptu...
...ok decisive action. She brought the Prophet ﷺ to her cousin Waraqah ibn Nawfal — an elderly Christian scholar who had studi...
...revealed: "O you who wraps himself in his cloak — arise and warn! And your Lord, glorify. And your garments, purify. And un...
...putation as al-Amin, the Trustworthy. He said: "Then I am a warner to you of severe punishment ahead." His uncle Abu Lahab ...
...e pilgrimage season, where the Quraysh intercept him with a warning: Muhammad ﷺ was a dangerous speaker who had divided fam...
Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib was the most formidable warrior in Mecca — the Prophet's uncle and near-contemporary in...
...dismantling with every new convert. On the way, a companion warned him: before worrying about Muhammad, tend to your own ho...
...t Abu Talib made explicitly clear on multiple occasions: he warned the Quraysh assembly directly that harm to Muhammad woul...
...Meccan phase of the mission and accelerated the search northward, toward Yathrib and the men from the Khazraj tribe who wou...
... a polytheist — established the principle that good deeds toward the Muslim community carry weight before Allah regardless ...
...rayshi society. Abu Lahab followed him from tribe to tribe warning each group not to listen to him, calling him a liar who...
...the prayers were fixed at five — equal to fifty in divine reward. When the Quraysh heard the Prophet's ﷺ account the next m...
...ch other: 'By Allah, this is the prophet the Jews have been warning us about — let us not let them reach him before us.' Th...
... they were offering. Al-Abbas addressed the assembly first, warning them that Muhammad ﷺ was protected and honored in his o...
... to confuse pursuit. The Quraysh launched a hundred-camel reward and search parties in every direction. One party reached t...
...the Quraysh search parties who had placed a hundred-camel reward on the Prophet's ﷺ head. The journey of approximately thre...
...home and comes to Masjid Quba and prays, he will have the reward of an Umrah' (Ibn Majah). During his Medinan years he visi...
...d listens without distraction receives for every step the reward of a year's fasting and a year's night prayer — among the ...
...ently. Yathrib ceased to exist that day; al-Madinah al-Munawwarah took its place.
...d by palm trunks, a sand and gravel floor. The qiblah was toward Jerusalem — the practice at the time — and would change to...
...bas narrates that the Prophet ﷺ had been turning his face toward the sky, waiting. The verse came: 'We have certainly seen ...
... refused to pay zakat after the Prophet's ﷺ death, declared war: 'By Allah, I will fight those who separate prayer from zak...
...n the armies met. The Prophet ﷺ threw a handful of gravel toward the Qurayshi ranks at a decisive moment. The Quran records...
...ns carried permanent honor. The Prophet ﷺ told Uthman his reward would be the same as the fighters. Ruqayyah died in Medina...
... Muslim community: 'The men of Quraysh were not experienced warriors. If you fight us, you will find that we are real men.'...
...d al-Muttalib, the Prophet's ﷺ uncle and among the greatest warriors of Islam. Seventy Muslim companions were martyred at U...
...s ﷺ uncle and milk brother, the Lion of Allah, the greatest warrior of early Islam — was martyred at the Battle of Uhud in ...
...n army he had never seen the like of. Abu Sufyan withdrew toward Mecca. The Quran commended those who marched to Hamra al-...
...d Ali, and into the Umayyad period. In 61 AH, he traveled toward Kufa in response to invitations from its people — who then...
...er the Constitution of Medina they had signed — when Jibril warned him mid-visit that a man had climbed to the roof above h...
... if that spared me from what I am in.' Abu Sufyan said afterward: 'I have never seen a man so loved by his companions as Mu...
...e that their chief, al-Harith ibn Abi Dirar, was assembling warriors to attack Medina. The Muslim force surprised the tribe...
...uring this period the Prophet ﷺ was visibly distressed. His warmth toward Aishah was visibly withdrawn. He consulted compan...
...e of physical privacy for modesty that was then extended outward to Muslim society broadly. Surah al-Ahzab 33:59 instructed...
...ross the northern approach — a technique unknown in Arabian warfare. The companions dug for days, with the Prophet ﷺ workin...
...rophet ﷺ said: 'Your son's actions were pure, and now his reward with Allah is pure.' Sa'd ibn Mu'adh had been the voice a...
...the seerah. The Prophet ﷺ led approximately 1,400 Muslims toward Mecca for Umrah (the lesser pilgrimage) — in pilgrimage ga...
...eir hearts, and so He sent down tranquility upon them and rewarded them with an imminent conquest.' The phrase 'Allah was p...
...wed the Muslim community to direct its attention further: toward the Byzantine frontier (the Battle of Mutah followed withi...
...edina and took his shahada. The Prophet ﷺ received him with warmth and the statement: 'I knew that a man of intelligence li...
...ment of surprise. When Hatib ibn Abi Balta'ah sent a letter warning the Quraysh, the Prophet ﷺ was informed through revelat...
... of the city's leadership, no redistribution of property as war spoils, no enslavement. The majority of Mecca accepted Isla...
...rs spread that the Prophet ﷺ had found his own people and rewarded them at the Ansar's expense. The Prophet ﷺ gathered the...
...hen He turned to them so they could repent.' Ka'b said afterward that the greatest gift Allah gave him through the trial wa...
...ion among the believers, and as a station for those who had warred against Allah and His Messenger before' (Surah al-Tawbah...
...adr. The Prophet ﷺ assured Uthman he would receive Badr's reward and then gave him Umm Kulthum — the second of the Prophet'...
...ty that had been prepared, event by event, to carry both forward.
... — and that he would be there for those who came to him. He warned them against making his grave a place of worship: 'Do no...