Birth of Muhammad
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Life of Muhammad 
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|---|---|
| Birth | 570 CE (54 BH) |
| Muhammad is orphaned | 575 CE (49 BH) |
| Marriage to Khadija | 595 CE (28 BH) |
| Makkah phase of dawa | 610–622 |
| Quran revealed | 610 CE (12 BH) |
| Declaration at mount Safa | 613 CE (9 BH) |
| First emigration to Abyssinia | 615 CE (7 BH) |
| Start of Boycott of Banu Hashim | 616 CE (6 BH) |
| Year of Sorrow | 619 CE (3 BH) |
| Isra and Mi'raj | 620 CE (2 BH) |
| First pledge of Aqaba | 621 CE (1 BH) |
| Emigration to Yathrib | 622 CE (0 AH) |
| Madinah phase of dawa | 622–632 |
| Battle of Badr | 624 CE (2 AH) |
| Battle of Uhud | 625 CE (3 AH) |
| Battle of the Trench | 627 CE (5 AH) |
| Treaty of Hudaibiyyah | 628 CE (6 AH) |
| The first pilgrimage | 629 CE (7 AH) |
| Conquest of Makkah | 630 CE (8 AH) |
| Death | 632 CE (10 AH) |
Muhammad , the Master of Prophets, was born in Bani Hashim lane in Makkah on Monday morning, the 9th March 571 (23rd Muharram 52 BH), the same year of the Elephant Event, and forty years of the reign of Kisra (Khosru Nushirwan), according to the scholar Muhammad Sulaimân Al-Mansourpuri, and the astrologer Mahmûd Pasha. [1]
Ibn Sa‘d reported that Muhammad’s mother said: "When he was born, there was a light that issued out of my pudendum and lit the palaces of Syria." Ahmad reported on the authority of ‘Arbadh bin Sariya something similar to this. [2]
It was but controversially reported that significant precursors accompanied his birth: fourteen galleries of Kisra’s palace cracked and rolled down, the Magians’ sacred fire died down and some churches on Lake Sawa sank down and collapsed. [3]
His mother immediately sent someone to inform his grandfather ‘Abdul-Muttalib of the happy event. Happily he came to her, carried him to Al-Ka‘bah, prayed to Allâh and thanked Him. ‘Abdul-Muttalib called the baby Muhammad, a name not then common among the Arabs. He circumcised him on his seventh day as was the custom of the Arabs. [4]
The first woman who suckled him after his mother was Thuyebah, the concubine of Abu Lahab, with her son, Masrouh. She had suckled Hamzah bin ‘Abdul-Muttalib before and later Abu Salamah bin ‘Abd Al-Asad Al-Makhzumi. [5]
Source: Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum
[edit] References
- ↑ Muhadarat Tareekh Al-Umam Al-Islamiyah 1/62; Rahmat-ul-lil'alameen 1/38,39. Traditional sources place the birth of Muhammad on the night of Monday, 2, 8 or 13 Rabī‛ al-Awwal while others say that he was born in the 46th year of Kisrā Anōshīrwān (al-Bīrūnī, Chronology, pp. 34 [30]).
- ↑ Mukhtasar Seerat-ur-Rasool, p.12; Tabaqat Ibn Sa'd 1/63
- ↑ Reported by Al-Baihaqi, but Al-Ghazali didn't approve it - see Fiqh-us-Seerah p.46
- ↑ Ibn Hisham 1/159,160; Zad Al-Ma'ad 1/18; Muhadarat Tareekh Al-Umam Al-Islamiyah 1/62
- ↑ Talqeeh Furoom Ahl-al-Athar p.4; Mukhtasar Seerat-ur-Rasool p.13
