A brief Biography of Prophet Muhammad PBUH
Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) is the last and final Messenger revealed to humanity. He PBUH was born in the holy city of Makkah in 570 AD in the Islamic month of Rabi ul Awwal. Descendent of Prophet, Isma’eel AS, who is most known for His story which relates to Qurbani – There are roughly 2,670 years between the two Prophets.
Prophet Muhammad’s PBUH father, Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, died before His birth. He PBUH was sent to live with a milk mother in the desert as a baby, as was the tradition at the time, where he was nursed by Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb of the Banu Sa’ad tribe. He PBUH was later reunited with his mother, Aminah bint Wahb, at the age of six, but she would die just a year later in 577 AD. Abd al-Muttalib, the Prophet’s PBUH paternal grandfather took in the young Prophet Muhammad PBUH and He was then later taken in by his paternal uncle, Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib.
Both in Makkah and Madinah, Prophet Muhammad PBUH earned a reputation for someone who was honest and could be trusted, especially by the Jewish population of Madinah, and he was highly respected by everyone. Thus, he was given the name ‘The Trustworthy’.
At aged 25, the Prophet PBUH was proposed to by Sayyidah Khadijah RA, aged 40 at the time, and accepted her hand in marriage. She would be the Prophet’s PBUH only wife for 25 years before her death in 619 AD, the same year as Prophet Muhammad’s PBUH uncle died – this was known as the year of sorrows.
It was in 610 AD when the Angel Jibra’eel AS appeared to the Prophet PBUH in the Cave of Hira and shared the first revelations of the Qur’an. It was at this point that Prophet Muhammad PBUH became known as a Prophet of Allah SWT and began to gather followers in secret in Makkah. He would begin spreading the message of Islam publicly three years later in 613 AD.
