LIFE OF PROPHET PBUH IN MAKKAH

570AD – 605AD
✔ Direct ancestors
✔ Birth and upbringing
✔ Herb & Fudul
✔ Meeting with Bahira
✔ Marriage to Khadija RAH
✔ Fixing of Blackstone
DIRECT ANCESTORS
⮚ Holy Prophet Ahmed–e-Mujtaba MUHAMMAD Mustafa (SAWS) belonged to a noble family of Quraish
and as a descendant of Hazrat Ibrahim (AS).
⮚ Hazrat MUHAMMAD (SAWS) was the direct descendant of Hazrat Ismail (AS).
⮚ One of the descendant of Hazrat Ismail (AS) was settled in Hejaz- Arabia.
⮚ One of them was known as FIHR (Quraish) where as one of his descendant became the custodian of
the key of Ka’abah and known as QUSSAI.
⮚ The grandson of Qussai was named as Hashim (his family was known as Banu Hashim).
⮚ Grandfather of Hazrat Muhammad (SAWS) named Hazrat Abdul Muttalib belonged to Banu Hashim.
He had 7 sons. One of them was Hazrat Abdullah, the father of Prophet (SAWS).
HAZRAT ABDUL MUTTALIB:
⮚ The grandfather of Hazrat Muhammad (SAWS) named Hazrat Abdul Muttalib belonged to Banu
Hashim, having 7 sons was settled in Makkah as the custodian of the key of Ka’abah.
⮚ He was prominent for the following THREE reasons:
☞ Restoration of the fountain of Zamzam
☞ Courageous Dialogue with Abraha (Christian Viceroy of Yemen)
☞ Bringing up of his orphan grandson Hazrat Muhammad (SAWS)
HAZRAT ABDULLAH:
⮚ Hazrat Abdullah was the father of Holy Prophet (SAWS) who married to Bibi Aminah (the daughter of
Wahab) but died before the birth of Hazrat Muhammad (SAWS) in 570 C.E. and left a few Camels,
Goats and a slave girl Umme Aiman in heritance.
THE BIRTH & UPBRINGING OF THE PROPHET
� Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬was born in Makkah; his father, Abdullah, had died before his birth.
� He was named Muhammad by his grandfather, Abdul Muttalib, whom, along with his uncle Abu Talib,
was also responsible for his upbringing.
� After Aminah gave birth to him, he was handed over to Halima who was a Bedouin mother.
� At that time there was a tradition that suckling infants were handed over to the Bedouin mothers
who used to raise them in the desert and bring them back to their parents after a few years.
� As was the custom in those days, babies of noble families were normally entrusted to the care of
strong and healthy wet nurses, who not only gave suck but taught their wards manners and
etiquette.
� The young Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬was accordingly put under the care of a noble wet-nurse called Halima
bint Harith As-Saadiyah, who brought him up along with her own children; Abdullah, Eisa and
daughter Shaima.
� After four years Halima brought back the child to his mother and grandfather.
� Everyone was happy as the toddler started to grow up into a pretty, sober and intelligent boy,
marked out from the rest of the children by his suave manners and loved and admired by all.

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� At the age of six, his mother took him to Yathrib to visit her family.
� Umm Ayman their maid accompanied them on the journey.
� At Yathrib, the young boy saw the grave of his father, whom he had never seen in life.
� What a moving scene it may have been when mother and son, set eyes on Abdullah's grave!
� After a short stay in Yathrib they started back, but on the way Amina became seriously ill.
� The party stopped to nurse her but her condition became worse and finally she breathed her last and
was buried at a place called Abwa, situated between Makkah and Madina.
� The child was naturally sad at losing his only surviving parent, at the tender age of 6.
� Now he was an orphan on both sides and alone in this wide world. But Almighty Allah is Great and
Omnipresent and He alone decrees destinies.
� Umm Ayman escorted Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬to Hazrat Abdul Muttalib, who was shocked on hearing news
of his daughter-in-law's sudden death.
� The doting grandfather took upon himself the task of bringing up the young orphan, never letting
him feel the slightest discomfort.
� But there was yet another shock in store for Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬, for when he reached the age of 8, he
lost his loving grandfather too.
� Before his death, Hazrat Abdul Muttalib instructed his son Hazrat Abu Talib to see his orphaned
grandson's upbringing.
� Accordingly, Hazrat Abu Talib gladly assumed guardianship of his nephew and took young
Muhammad (‫ )ﷺ‬under his roof.
� Hazrat Abu Talib and his wife Fatimah bint Asad raised the orphan as their own child, never making
him feel the slightest thought of being a destitute.
� They loved him dearly and he loved them in turn. In later years he was often heard saying that
Fatimah bint Asad, (the mother of Imam Ali) was like a mother to him.
� As Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬acquired, under the guidance of his uncle, fair knowledge and experience of
business, and was well spoken of by persons who happened to come in touch with him, some traders
engaged him as their representative to conduct important business affairs on their behalf.
� Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬so successfully executed these trusts that people were perfectly satisfied with his
honesty. The people, therefore, respected him very much and used to call him Sadiq (the truthful)
and Amin (the trustworthy).
� From his early childhood he never took part in idolatrous rituals and never told a lie. He had excellent
habits and an unimpeachable character. Honesty and truthfulness command respect and honour.
HIS TEENAGE
HARB UL FIJAR means sacrilegious war
◻ It got this name because it went on during the sacred months when Arabs were not supposed to
fight.
◻ It was a tribal war between the Quraish and the Banu Kinana. Rasulullah ‫ ﷺ‬was in his teenage at
the time, depending on which source is right. He retrieved arrows but otherwise did not take part in
the fighting. 
◻ The most significant aspect of the fight was that it taught Rasulullah ‫ ﷺ‬that war could be pointless
and destructive when fought for the wrong reason.
Hilf al-Fudul 
◻ It was a 7th-century alliance created by various Meccans, including the Islamic Prophet Muhammad,
to establish fair commercial dealing.
◻ Because of Muhammad's role in its formation, the alliance plays a significant role in Islamic ethics.
Because Fudul commonly means "virtuous" the alliance is often translated as League of the Virtuous.
◻ In the years preceding the pact, the Quraish were involved in intermittent conflict. The war, as usual,
was a result of an unsettled murder.

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◻ The effect was growing discontent with the form of justice that required sacrilegious war. Many
Quraish leaders had travelled to Syria, where they found relative justice prevailed. Similar conditions
also existed in Abyssinia. No such system, however, existed in Arabia.
◻ Following the Fijar War, the Quraish realized that the deterioration of their state and the loss of
Mecca's prestige in Arabia were the result of their inability to solve disagreements, creating internal
division.
Bahira met the young Muhammad (‫)ﷺ‬
◻ When Abu Talib planned to go with a merchant caravan to Syria, leaving Muhammad [PBUH] behind
in Makkah. But he [PBUH] was so used to the company of Abu Talib that he could not bear
separation from his uncle. So he took him to the Syrian merchant trip.
◻ The journeys exposed Muhammad to cultural diversity and varying religious traditions. Abu Talib felt
moved and agreed to take him Syria. When the caravan passed by his cell, the monk invited the
merchants to a feast.
◻ At the age of 12, he went with his uncle Abu Talib on a business journey to Syria, where Muslims
believe he met Bahira in the town of Busra, who foretold his prophecy.
◻ When Bahira saw the face of Muhammad he was delighted for he was aware from the scriptures of
the arrival of a mighty prophet and he could see the signs on the young boy. He asked him a series
of questions such as how he sleeps, what he sees when he sleeps, what he thinks about and what he
does all day. The young Muhammad answered truthfully which convinced Bahira of who he is.
◻ After the food, Bahira approached Abu Talib and asked him of his relationship to Muhammad.
◻ Abu Talib initially replied saying that he was his son upon which Bahira remarked that that could not
be possible upon which Abu Talib confirmed that he was in fact his nephew.
◻ Bahira revealed to Abu Talib that Muhammad would be a great prophet one day.
◻ He said that when he had seen the caravan in the distance there was a cloud hanging over them,
which was shading them from the great heat of the desert.
◻ When the caravan had stopped under a tree the cloud had also stopped above them.
◻ Bahira said that he had seen the stones and the trees prostrating to Muhammad as he had been
walking by.
◻ They only do this for a prophet of Allah. He looked at the Muhammad’s back and noticed the seal of
the prophets, which was an oval shape protruding just below Muhammad’s shoulder blades.
◻ He said that this was one of the signs of a great prophet to come that was taught to them in their
books.
◻ Bahira said, “This is the master of all humans, Allah will send him with a message which would be a
mercy to all humans”. 
◻ Bahira advised that Muhammad should be taken back to Makkah at once, if the Jews found out about
Muhammad they would try to kill him.
◻ Abu Talib took the advice of this wise old monk and sent Muhammad back with some of the guides.
https://youtu.be/m9si_okDZbo

YOUTH OF PROPHET ‫ﷺ‬:

The Marriage of Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬and Khadija RAH– 595 AD
 Hazrat Khadija, the daughter of Khuwalid, was a resident of Makkah. She also belonged to the tribe
of Quraish. She was held in high esteem by the Makkans because of her exemplary character and her
organizing ability.
 Just as the Makkans called Hazrat Muhammad ‘Sadiq' and ‘Ameen,' they called Hazrat Khadija Tahira,
which means “the pure one.” She was also known among the Arabs as the ‘Princess of the
Merchants.' Whenever the caravans left Makkah or returned to Makkah, they noted that her cargo
was larger in volume than the cargo of all other merchants of Makkah put together.
 When Hazrat Muhammad was 25 years old, his uncle and guardian, Hazrat Abu Talib, suggested to
Hazrat Khadija, with his tacit understanding, that she appoint him as her agent in one of her
caravans, which was ready to leave for Syria just then.

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 Hazrat Khadija was in fact in need of an agent at that very moment. She agreed and appointed
Hazrat Muhammad as her agent. He took charge of her merchandise, and the caravan set out for
Syria. Her slave, Maysera, also accompanied him and served him as an aide.
 This commercial expedition to Syria was successful beyond expectations, and Hazrat Khadija was so
impressed by her agent's ability and integrity that she decided to put him in charge of all her future
business transactions. The expedition also proved to be the prelude of their marriage.
MATURITY OF PROPHET ‫ﷺ‬
FIXING OF BLACK STONE (HAJR-E-ASWAD)- 605 AD
 Once, as a result of heavy rain, the walls of Ka’abah collapsed and had to be reconstructed.
 The 4 chiefs of Makkan's tribes constructed the walls of Ka’abah.
 At the time of Fixing Black Stone (Hajr-e-Aswad), a dispute arose among the chiefs of Makkah.
 The dispute reached to bloodshed and then, a wise old man of Banu Umayyah advised that the
decision should be taken by a neutral person who would enter Ka’abah first the next morning.
 Everybody was agreed with this suggestion.
 Holy Prophet (‫ )ﷺ‬was the first person who entered in Ka’abah first the next morning.
 He suggested that he would spread a cloth sheet on the floor and all of the present (4 chiefs) would
put the Blackstone in the Centre of the sheet and permit Muhammad (‫ )ﷺ‬to place it in the wall and
they would pick up the each corner of the sheet and would carry that sheet till its proper place.
 No one raised any objection. Thus he solved the matter. He was at the age of 35 years.
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