Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Biography

Martin Lings

House of God -- A Great loss -- Quraysh of the hollow -- Recovery of a loss -- Vow to sacrifice a son -- Need for a prophet -- Year of the elephant -- Desert -- Two bereavements -- Bahīrà the monk -- Pact of chivalry -- Questions of marriage -- Household -- Rebuilding of the Ka'bah -- First Revelations -- Worship -- "Warn Thy Family" -- Quraysh take action -- Aws and Khazraj -- Abū Jahl and Ḥamzah -- Quraysh make offers and demands -- Leaders of Quraysh -- Wonderment and hope -- Family divisions -- Hour -- Three questions -- Abyssinia -- 'Umar -- Ban and its annulment -- Paradise and eternity -- Year of sadness -- "The Light of Thy Countenance" -- After the Year of Sadness -- Yathrib responsive -- Many emigrations -- Conspiracy -- Hijrah -- Entry into Medina -- Harmony and discord -- New household -- Threshold of war -- March to Badr -- Battle of Badr -- Return of the vanquished -- Captives page -- Bani Qaynuqā' -- Deaths and marriages -- People of the bench -- Desultory warfare -- Preparations for battle -- March to Uhud -- Battle of Uhud -- Revenge -- Burial of martyrs -- After Uhud -- Victims of revenge -- Bani Naḍīr -- Peace and war -- Trench -- Siege -- Bani Qurayẓah -- After the siege -- Hypocrites -- Necklace -- Lie -- Dilemma of Quraysh -- "A Clear Victory" -- After Ḥudaybiyah -- Khaybar -- "Whom Lovest Thou Most?" -- After Khaybar -- Lesser Pilgrimage and its aftermath -- Deaths and the promise of a birth -- A Breach of the armistice -- Conquest of Mecca -- Battle of Ḥunayn and the Siege of Ṭā'if -- Reconciliations -- After the victory -- Tabūk -- After Tabūk -- Degrees -- Future -- Farewell pilgrimage -- Choice -- Succession and the burial -- Map of Arabia -- Quraysh of the Hollow (genealogical tree) -- Notes on the pronunciation of Arabic names.

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