EARLY LIFE OF THE PROPHET His lineage Abdullah

EARLY LIFE OF THE PROPHET

• • His lineage: Abdullah (his father) Abd al- Muttalib (his grandfather) Hashim/Amr Abd Manaf Qusayy Kilab Murrah

• • Ka’b Lu’ayy Ghalib Fihr Malik Al-Nadr Kinanah Khuzaymah

• • • Mudrikah İlyas Mudar Nizar Ma’add Adnan

• His birth and childhood: • “The apostle was born on Monday, 12 th Rabi’ul-awwal, in the year of the elephant” • It is alleged in popular stories (and only God knows the truth) tha Amina bint Wahb, the mother of God’s apostle, used to say when she was pergnant with God’s apostle that a voice said to her, “ you are pregnant with the Lord of this people and when he is born say,

• “ I put him in the care of the One from the evil of every envier; the call him Muhammad. ” As she was pregnant with him she saw a light come forth from her by which she could see the castles of Busra in Syria. Shortly afterwards Abdullah the apostle’s father died while his mother was still pregnant. ” • (Ibn Ishaq, The Life. . p. 71)

• It is said that his grandfather took the boy into the Kaba [place of worship] and prayed to Allah and thanked Him for His gift; then he • brought him again to his mother. Soon he hired for the boy a nurse, whose name was • Halima was the daughter of Abu Dhuayb of the Banu Sad tribe.

• Amina dies and the apostle lives with his grandfather. • Amina died in Abwa between Mecca and Medina on her return from a visit with him to his maternal uncles of B. Adiyy b. al-Najjar when he was six years old.

• When the apostle was eight years of age, eight years after the year of the elephant, his grandfather died. • Abu Talib becomes guardian of the apostle. • The story of Bahira: • The Sacrilegious War (Fijar): This war brote out when the apostle was twenty years of age. • (between Kinana and Qays Aylan) Quraysh was with Kinana.

• The apostle of God married with Khadija. (25 years old) • The rebuilding of the Ka’bah. (35 years old) • His early religion: Bahira said to him : ’young boy I ask you in the name of al-Lat and al-Uzza to please answer to all the questions I ask you. ’ • “…They allege that the Prophet of God replied, ‘Do not ask me for anything in the name of al-Lat and al-Uzza… (Ibn Ishaq, Sira) • “We have been told that the Apostle of God once mentioned al. Uzza saying, "I have offered a white sheep to al-'Uzza, while I was a follower of the religion of my people. " (Ibn al-Kalbi (d. 206/821), Kitab al-asnam, p. 18) •