Day 1

The lesson

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 Amina bint Wahb of Banu Zuhra. Al-Allama al-Majlisi wrote that all Twelver Shia agree that his father, his mother, Abu Talib and all his forefathers back to Adam were believers in God (Tarikh-i Payambar-i Islam of Ayati).
2. Born in Mecca in the Year of the Elephant (al-Sira al-Nabawiyya of Ibn Hisham), on 17 Rabi al-Awwal according to most Shia scholars; Sunni scholars give 12 Rabi al-Awwal (Tarikh-i Payambar-i Islam of Ayati). The exact year is uncertain; reckoning from his passing in 632 at sixty-three gives 569 or 570 CE (Tarikh-i Tahlili-yi Islam of Shahidi).
3. He grew up an orphan. His father died in Yathrib, before his birth according to some historians and a few months after it according to others; he was nursed in the desert by Halima of Banu Sa'd; his mother died at al-Abwa when he was six (some reports: four); his grandfather Abd al-Muttalib then raised him until he died two years later, and his uncle Abu Talib took him in (Tarikh-i Tahlili-yi Islam of Shahidi). When Fatima bint Asad, Abu Talib's wife, died, he said: Today my mother has died (Tarikh al-Ya'qubi).

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