A chronological journey through the complete events database of the life of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. New events appear here as index.json grows.https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0030_continued_upbringing_in_the_household_of_abu_talib/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0030_continued_upbringing_in_the_household_of_abu_talib/When Abu Talib returned from the trading journey to Syria with his brother's son, the boy of thirteen re-entered the household which had loved him since his eighth year, and the ordinary years of a sacred childhood resumed in Makkah. Martin Lings records the heart of that house: Abu Talib prolonged …https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0029_bahira_advice_and_safe_return_to_makkah/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0029_bahira_advice_and_safe_return_to_makkah/When the questioning of the boy was complete and the Seal of Prophethood had been seen between his shoulders, the monk Bahira rose from the guest to the guardian and turned to Abu Talib, and the verification of this event was made of words. Ibn Ishaq relates the exchange: asked what relation the boy…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0028_verification_of_prophetic_signs_and_seal_of_prophethood/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0028_verification_of_prophetic_signs_and_seal_of_prophethood/When the feast of the monk Bahira had ended, the old man of the cell drew near to the boy of the caravan, the young Muhammad ﷺ, twelve years of age, and began the verification which his book required. Ibn Ishaq relates that Bahira first bound the boy to answer, swearing by al-Lat and al-Uzza because…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0027_encounter_with_the_monk_bahira_at_busra/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0027_encounter_with_the_monk_bahira_at_busra/When the caravan of Abu Talib halted at Busra in southern Syria, the young Muhammad ﷺ, twelve years of age, entered the radius of a watching that had been kept for generations. In a cell near the customary halt of the Meccan caravans there lived a monk named Bahira, learned in the Christianity of hi…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0026_departure_on_trade_expedition_to_syria/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0026_departure_on_trade_expedition_to_syria/The caravan journals of Quraysh counted every journey to Syria in the ledger of profit, but the journey which Abu Talib undertook when his nephew was twelve years of age was written by Allah for the history of prophecy. The young Muhammad ﷺ, orphaned of father and mother and raised in the affectiona…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0025_early_work_as_a_shepherd_in_makkah/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0025_early_work_as_a_shepherd_in_makkah/To ease the burden of his financially strained uncle Abu Talib, the young Prophet Muhammad ﷺ worked in his early years as a hired shepherd, tending the sheep and goats of the Meccans upon the hillsides of Ajyad near Makkah, roughly between 578 and 582 CE. He took his wages in qirats, the small coins…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0024_upbringing_in_the_household_of_abu_talib_and_fatimah_bint_asad/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0024_upbringing_in_the_household_of_abu_talib_and_fatimah_bint_asad/After the death of Abdul-Muttalib, the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, eight years old, was received into the house of his uncle Abu Talib, and there, between about 578 and 583 CE, he was brought up by Abu Talib and his wife Fatimah bint Asad as one of their own children, and indeed above their own children. Th…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0023_transfer_of_guardianship_to_uncle_abu_talib/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0023_transfer_of_guardianship_to_uncle_abu_talib/When death approached Abdul-Muttalib in the year 578 of the Christian calendar, the patriarch charged his son Abu Talib with the care and safekeeping of the eight-year-old Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, and with that entrustment the guardianship passed from the grandfather's house to the uncle's. Ibn Ishaq, as…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0022_demise_of_grandfather_abdul_muttalib/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0022_demise_of_grandfather_abdul_muttalib/In about the year 578 of the Christian calendar, when the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was eight years of age, his grandfather and guardian Abdul-Muttalib died in Makkah at an advanced age, closing the two radiant years during which the chief of Quraysh had cherished him above his own sons. In his last days t…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0021_guardianship_of_grandfather_abdul_muttalib/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0021_guardianship_of_grandfather_abdul_muttalib/After the death of his mother Aminah at al-Abwa, the six-year-old Muhammad ﷺ returned to Makkah, where his grandfather Abdul-Muttalib received him with profound compassion and took complete charge of his upbringing. The venerable chief of Quraysh, who had dug Zamzam and fed the pilgrims, loved the b…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0020_return_to_makkah_with_umm_ayman/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0020_return_to_makkah_with_umm_ayman/When Aminah bint Wahb died at al-Abwa, her devoted maidservant Barakah, known as Umm Ayman (may Allah be pleased with her), gathered up the six-year-old Muhammad ﷺ, and riding the two camels of the household, and in the company of travelers upon the road, she brought the grieving boy safely back to …https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0019_demise_of_mother_aminah_at_al_abwa/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0019_demise_of_mother_aminah_at_al_abwa/On the return journey from Yathrib to Makkah, the mother of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, Aminah bint Wahb, fell severely ill, and the caravan halted at al-Abwa, a place between Yathrib and Makkah not far from the town she had just visited with her son. There she died, in about the year 576 of the Christi…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0018_stay_among_banu_al_najjar_in_yathrib/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0018_stay_among_banu_al_najjar_in_yathrib/Upon arriving in Yathrib with his mother Aminah and Barakah (Umm Ayman, may Allah be pleased with her), the six-year-old Muhammad ﷺ stayed among his maternal kinsmen of Banu Adi ibn an-Najjar for about a month, in the very quarter where his father Abdullah had lodged, sickened, died, and been buried…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0017_journey_to_yathrib_with_aminah/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0017_journey_to_yathrib_with_aminah/In about the year 576 of the Christian era, when her son was six years old, Aminah bint Wahb resolved to journey north from Makkah to Yathrib, both to stand at the grave of her late husband Abdullah, who had died in that town before the boy was born, and to present the child to his maternal kinsmen …https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0016_permanent_return_to_aminah_in_makkah/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0016_permanent_return_to_aminah_in_makkah/After the wondrous opening of the chest of the young Muhammad ﷺ among the flocks of Banu Sa'd, his foster parents Halimah (may Allah be pleased with her) and al-Harith were seized with fear for the child, and al-Harith said that they should hasten to return him to his family before what they dreaded…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0015_miracle_of_the_splitting_of_the_chest_shaqq_al_sadr/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0015_miracle_of_the_splitting_of_the_chest_shaqq_al_sadr/While the young Muhammad ﷺ, then four or five years old, was playing with his foster-brother among the lambs behind the tents of Banu Sa'd, Jibril (peace be upon him) came to him, laid him gently down, opened his blessed chest, took out his heart, and extracted from it a black clot, saying: this is …https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0014_weaning_and_brief_visit_to_makkah/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0014_weaning_and_brief_visit_to_makkah/When the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ had completed two full years at the breast of Halimah al-Sa'diyyah (may Allah be pleased with her), she weaned him and brought him to Makkah to restore him to his mother Aminah bint Wahb (may Allah be pleased with her), as the custom of the desert fosterage required. He w…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0013_growing_up_among_the_banu_sad/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0013_growing_up_among_the_banu_sad/The foster years of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ among the tents of Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr, from his infancy until the age of four or five, formed his body, his tongue, and his earliest memory of the world. He grew up as a son of the household of Halimah (may Allah be pleased with her) and her husband al-Hari…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0012_increased_provision_in_halimahs_household/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0012_increased_provision_in_halimahs_household/From the very hour that Halimah al-Sa'diyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) took the orphaned infant Muhammad ﷺ to her breast, the drought-stricken household of Banu Sa'd began to experience an increase which no arithmetic of that famine year could explain. Her dry breasts flowed with milk until bo…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0011_entrusting_to_halimah_al_sadiyyah/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0011_entrusting_to_halimah_al_sadiyyah/In the weeks that followed his blessed birth in Rabi al-Awwal, the infant Muhammad ﷺ was entrusted, in keeping with the custom of the noble families of Makkah, to a wet nurse of the desert, that he might gain bodily strength, health, and the purest of Arabic speech. The custom itself was ancient and…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0010_acceptance_by_halimah_despite_his_orphanhood/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0010_acceptance_by_halimah_despite_his_orphanhood/When the ten wet nurses of Banu Sa'd prepared to leave Makkah, every one of them had taken a nurseling except Halimah, for each had refused the infant Prophet Muhammad ﷺ upon learning that he was an orphan, saying: what good could his mother do for us, when we had hoped for a patron in the boy's fat…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0009_the_drought_and_famine_affecting_banu_sad/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0009_the_drought_and_famine_affecting_banu_sad/The desert nursing which received the infant Prophet Muhammad ﷺ into Banu Sa'd was forged in a year of severe drought and famine. Halimah (may Allah be pleased with her), the wife of al-Harith ibn Abd al-Uzza of Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr, described in her famous first-person account how she set out for Mak…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0008_initial_nursing_by_suwaybah_thuwaybah/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0008_initial_nursing_by_suwaybah_thuwaybah/Before the foster-mothers of the desert arrived, the newborn Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was nursed for some days by Thuwaybah, the freed maidservant of his uncle Abu Lahab, in addition to the milk of his mother Aminah. When Thuwaybah carried the news of the birth to Abu Lahab, he was so overjoyed at the bir…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0007_naming_ceremony_and_seventh_day_customs/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0007_naming_ceremony_and_seventh_day_customs/On the seventh day after the birth of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, his grandfather Abdul-Muttalib made sacrifice for him and invited the men of Quraysh to a feast in his house. When they had eaten, they asked what name he had chosen for the son whom he had so honoured, and he answered: I have named him M…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0006_early_care_by_his_mother_aminah/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0006_early_care_by_his_mother_aminah/In the days that followed the blessed birth in the Year of the Elephant, the infant Prophet Muhammad ﷺ lay in the care of his mother Aminah bint Wahb in the quarter of Banu Hashim, nursed at her breast and watched over by the devoted Barakah, known as Umm Ayman, whom his father had left as a trust f…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0005_birth_of_prophet_muhammad/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0005_birth_of_prophet_muhammad/On a Monday morning in the month of Rabi al-Awwal, in the Year of the Elephant, corresponding to about the twentieth of April in the year 571 of the Christian era, Aminah bint Wahb gave birth to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in Makkah. She was staying in the home of her uncle, in the house in the quarter o…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0004_defeat_of_abraha_year_of_the_elephant/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0004_defeat_of_abraha_year_of_the_elephant/Abraha al-Ashram, the Abyssinian viceroy of Yemen, built the magnificent cathedral of al-Qullays in Sanaa and vowed to divert the pilgrimage of all Arabia to it, marching on Makkah with a great army and war elephants to demolish the Kaaba after a Kinanite Arab defiled his church. The Arab tribes who…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0003_demise_of_father_abdullah_in_yathrib/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0003_demise_of_father_abdullah_in_yathrib/Having left his pregnant wife Aminah in Makkah, Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib departed with a Quraysh trading caravan bound for Gaza and Syria. On the return journey he fell gravely ill and stopped in Yathrib, lodging with his kinsmen of Banu Adi ibn al-Najjar, the clan of his grandmother Salma bint A…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0002_conception_and_prophetic_light/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0002_conception_and_prophetic_light/Shortly after her marriage to Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib, Aminah bint Wahb conceived the child who would be the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, in Makkah around 570 CE. Ibn Ishaq preserves her own testimony that during the earliest days of her pregnancy she heard a voice telling her that she carried the lord o…https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0001_marriage_of_abdullah_and_aminah/https://seerah-preview.pages.dev/events/0001_marriage_of_abdullah_and_aminah/Abdul-Muttalib, the venerable chief of Quraysh, arranged the marriage of his youngest son Abdullah, the ransomed one whose sacrifice had once been exchanged for a hundred camels, to Aminah bint Wahb of Banu Zuhrah, the woman most highly regarded among her people in lineage. On the way to the dwellin…