Day 1
Muhammad, son of Abdullah, son of Abd al-Muttalib, son of Hashim, of the tribe of Quraysh, his line reaching back to Adnan; his mother was A…
Day 2
He never worshipped an idol. As a boy travelling to Syria with Abu Talib, he refused the monk Bahira's demand to answer in the name of al-La…
Day 3
The mission began, according to the Twelver Shia, on 27 Rajab (610 CE), when he was forty, in the cave of Hira, where he used to retreat to …
Day 4
To spare his persecuted followers he sent them to Abyssinia, to a king who harmed no one. Quraysh then besieged Banu Hashim in the valley of…
Day 5
He led the Muslims at Badr in 2 AH, where they won though fewer in number; at Uhud in 3 AH, where his uncle Hamza was martyred and he himsel…
Day 6
Leaving Ali in charge of Medina when he marched to Tabuk in 9 AH, he told him: You are to me as Aaron was to Moses, except that there is no …
Day 7
God says of him: Indeed you possess a great character (68:4). He was quiet and spoke only when needed, smiled and never laughed aloud, and l…
Day 8
He is the seal of the prophets, after whom there is no prophet (33:40). In Shia belief he is the first of the Fourteen Infallibles, protecte…