The Holy Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) - Last Prophet of Allah

Holy Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H)

 

Born	Mu?ammad ibn `Abd All?h c.?570 CE Mecca, Hejaz, Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia)
Died	8 June 632 CE (aged 62 or 63) Medina, Hejaz, Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia)
Resting place	Tomb under the Green Dome of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi at Medina, Hejaz, present-day Saudi Arabia
Other names	Abu al-Qasim (Kunya) Rasul ("Messenger") "The Prophet"
Ethnicity	Arab
Years active	583�609 CE as merchant 609�632 CE as religious leader
Successor	Abu Bakr (as  Ummah leader) Umar (followed by Abu Bakr) Usman (followed by Umar) Ali (followed by Usman)
Opponent(s)	Abu Jahl Ab? Lahab Umm Jamil
Religion	Islam
Spouse(s)	Wife Married Khadijah bint Khuwaylid 595�619 Sawda bint Zam?a 619�632 Aisha bint Abi Bakr 619�632 Hafsa bint Umar 624�632 Zaynab bint Khuzayma 625�627 Hind bint Abi Umayya 629�632 Zaynab bint Jahsh 627�632 Juwayriya bint al-Harith 628�632 Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan 628�632 Rayhana bint Zayd 629�631 Safiyya bint Huyayy 629�632 Maymuna bint al-Harith 630�632 Maria al-Qibtiyya 630�632
Children	Sons Qasim `Abd-Allah Ibrahim Daughters Zainab Ruqayyah Umm Kulsoom Fatimah Zahra
Parents	`Abd Allah ibn `Abd al-Muttalib (father) Aminah (mother)
Relatives	Ahl al-Bayt  ("Family of the House")

Muhammad (P.B.U.H) is the prophet of Allah. Muhammad is almost universally considered by Muslims as the last prophet sent by God (Allah) to mankind.While non-Muslims generally regard Muhammad as the founder of Islam, Muslims consider him to have restored the unaltered original monotheistic faith of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets in Islam. Muslims discuss Muhammad and other prophets of God with reverence, adding the phrase "peace be upon them" whenever their names are mentioned.


Born approximately in 570 CE in the Arabian city of Mecca, Muhammad (P.B.U.H) was orphaned at an early age; he was raised under the care of his paternal uncle Abu Talib. After his childhood Muhammad primarily worked as a merchant. Occasionally he would retreat to a cave in the mountains for several nights of seclusion and prayer; later, at age 40, he reported at this spot, that he was visited by Gabriel and received his first revelation from God. Three years after this event Muhammad (P.B.U.H) started preaching these revelations publicly, proclaiming that "God is One", that complete "surrender"  to Him is the only way  acceptable to God, and that he was a prophet and messenger of God, similar to other Islamic prophets.



Muhammad (P.B.U.H) gained few followers early on, and met hostility from some Meccan tribes. To escape persecution, Muhammad sent some of his followers to Abyssinia before he and his followers in Mecca migrated to Medina (then known as Yathrib) in the year 622. This event, the Hijra, marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar, also known as the Hijri Calendar. In Medina, Muhammad united the tribes under the Constitution of Medina. After eight years of fighting with the Meccan tribes, Muhammad gathered an army of 10,000 Muslim converts and marched on the city of Mecca. The attack went largely uncontested and Muhammad took over the city with little bloodshed. He destroyed the pagan idols in the city and sent his followers out to destroy all remaining pagan temples in Eastern Arabia. In 632, a few months after returning to Medina from The Farewell Pilgrimage, Muhammad fell ill and died. Before his death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam, and he had united Arabia into a single Muslim religious polity.



The revelations (each known as Ayah, lit. "Sign [of God]") which Muhammad (P.B.U.H) reported receiving until his death form the verses of the Qur'an, regarded by Muslims as the "Word of God" and around which the religion is based. Besides the Qur'an, Muhammad's teachings and practices (sunnah), found in the Hadith and sira literature, are also upheld by Muslims and used as sources of Islamic law.