A Living Biography of the Prophet ﷺ

Seerah Preview is a reading home for the complete events database of the Prophetic biography — 30 events narrated so far of 841 planned, built to grow with every update of a single manifest file.

Why This Project Exists

عن المشروع

The Seerah of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is traditionally taught as a sequence of events — a blessed chronology stretching from the marriage of Abdullah and Aminah, through the revelation at the Cave of Hira, to the farewell pilgrimage and the passing of the best of creation. This project preserves that chronological spirit in digital form: every event is a self-contained JSON document, written in a scholarly register with its full chain of evidence — Qur'anic verses, hadith, notable narrations with their isnads, and the weighing of the scholars.

The name Seerah Preview reflects its nature: a preview into the blessed life — "Seerah of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) — Complete Events Database" — rendered with the reverence that the subject demands: Amiri calligraphy for the Arabic, a calm emerald-and-gold manuscript palette, generous measure and leading for long reading, and a dark mode for night study.

How It Stays Universal

كيف يتجدّد الموقع

The whole website regenerates itself from your data — no code changes needed.

Drop the event file

Place 0006_ulas_and_saqib_suckling.json-style files (same schema as every other event) into the /events folder of the repository.

Update index.json

Add the event's entry to event_list (serial, name, file, era, date) and bump events_written. The manifest is the single source of truth.

Push to Git

Cloudflare Pages rebuilds automatically: the homepage, timeline, stats, event pages, related links, sitemap and RSS feed all regenerate from the new data.

The build is deliberately forgiving. An event listed in the manifest whose file is not written yet renders a dignified "narrative in preparation" page rather than a broken link; a file that exists but is not yet listed still gets its own reachable page; and filenames are matched first by their exact name and then by serial prefix (0007_*), so small naming slips never break anything.

The Event Schema

بنية الحدث

Every event JSON keeps the same format (schema v2.0).

Field	Contents
`event_serial` · `event_id`	Chronological number (e.g. 5) and canonical ID (SEERAH-005).
`event_name` · `event_name_arabic`	English title and the Arabic title rendered in Amiri calligraphy.
`era` · `phase`	The broad era (Pre-Prophethood, Makkī, Madanī…) and the phase within it.
`date_ce` · `date_hijri`	Dual-calendar dating — Gregorian and Hijri.
`location` · `prophet_age`	Where it happened and the Prophet's ﷺ age at the time.
`summary`	The "In Brief" callout shown above the narrative.
`narrative`	The full scholarly account; paragraphs separated by blank lines.
`key_figures[]`	People of the event with Arabic names and their roles.
`quranic_verses[]`	Surah, Arabic text, translation, reference, relevance.
`hadith_references[]`	Collection, number, narrator, Arabic + English, grade.
`notable_narrations[]`	Source, chain of transmission, report, scholarly note.
`lessons_and_reflections[]`	Numbered reflections for the reader.
`sources[]`	Bibliography: book, author, reference, type.
`related_events[]`	Serial numbers of connected events (cross-linked automatically).
`tags[]`	Searchable topic tags.

Reading Features

مزايا القراءة

Instant search & era filters across the whole timeline, scaling to all 841 events.
Reader-first pages — reading time, word count, drop caps, 44rem measure, print-friendly layout.
Collapsible isnads — narrations expand to reveal chains and scholarly notes.
Reading progress bar and back-to-top on every event page.
Light & dark manuscript themes, remembered between visits.
Share & copy-link with a graceful toast; fully responsive from phone to desktop.
RSS feed & sitemap so readers can follow the database as it grows.

Sources of the Data

مصادر البيانات

The event documents draw upon the classical Seerah corpus — Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya, Ibn Sa'd's Al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, al-Bayhaqi's Dala'il an-Nubuwwah, Qadi Iyad's Al-Shifa — together with Martin Lings' Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Every event carries its own source list with precise references, so each page can be checked against the books it rests upon.

اللهم اجعله خالصًا لوجهك الكريم

O Allah, make this effort sincere for Your noble face.