JJ_Prophet_Muhammad

Prophet Muhammad

  • Prophet Muhammad was born in Makkah on 12 Raabi Al Awwal 570 AD, the same year when Abraha attacked Makkah with a troop of elephants. The year is called the Elephant Year.
  • His father, Abdullah, died before his birth and his mother, Amina, died when he was six years old.
  • Halima was one of the nurse mothers of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). It was a custom at that time to place all newborn babies under the care of Bedouin nurse mothers. After about 2 or 3 years the babies were returned to their actual mothers.
  • Prophet stayed under the care of Halima for five years after which he lived with his birth mother Amina for a year before she passed away when he was only 6 years old.
  • After Amina passed away Abdul Muttalib who was Prophet's grandfather took care of him.
  • When prophet (PBUH) was 8 years old his grandfather also passed away. His uncle Abu Talib then took responsibility of taking care of him.
  • His first wife was Khadija Bint Khuwaylid, with whom he got married at the age of 25. Khadija was 40 at that time. He had 12 wives.
  • Muhammad (SAW) became a prophet of Allah when he was 40 years old.
  • The angel that visited Prophet was angel Jibreel at the Cave of hira where Quran was revealed for the first time to Muhammad (SAW) in Ramadan. The first five ayahs of Surah Alaq were revealed to him.
  • He learned that he was the last prophet of the god sent to mankind; and that there would be no prophets after him until the day of judgment.
  • Prophet (PBUH) had six children: Qasim, Ibrahim, Om-Kolthoom, Ruqayah, Zaynab, and Fatimah
  • All of his children died before Prophet himself, except Fatimah and Zainab.
  • Prophet's son, Ibrahim, was born from Maria Al- Qabtiyya; all the others were born from Khadija.
  • His prophet hood lasted 23 years.Out of which he lived in Makkah for 13 years. He migrated to Madinah at the age of 53. This migration is called Hijra. In Madinah he built a mosque that is known as Masjid An Nabawi.
  • After his migration to Madinah he lived for 10 more years until he passed away at the age of 63.