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Ancient-Najran was a Christian city located at the intersection of two main caravan routes. The city was also in a particular geographical place which allowed it to boom with agriculture and industry making it an ideal center of trade. One can infer that this played a significant role in Muhammad's interest in the city.
Muhammad [a] (c. 570 – 8 June 632 CE) [b] was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. [c] According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets.
The earliest written Christian knowledge of Muhammad stems from Byzantine sources, written shortly after Muhammad's death in 632 CE. In the anti-Jewish polemic the Teaching of Jacob , a dialogue between a recent Christian convert and several Jews , one participant writes that his brother "wrote to [him] saying that a deceiving prophet has ...
Later lived with Muhammad. Her husband accepted Islam before her death in 629. Ruqayyah (601–624). She then married the future third caliph, Uthman. [19] Umm Kulthum (603–630). She was first engaged to Utaybah bin Abi Lahab but it was broken off after Muhammad revealed his prophethood. After the death of her sister Ruqayyah, she married Uthman.
That Muhammad was accompanied to the mubahala by the above four is also the Shi'a view, [40] and Shia sources are unanimous that the term 'our sons' (Arabic: أَبْنَآءَنَا, romanized: abna'ana) in the verse of mubahala refers to Hasan and Husayn, the term 'our women' (Arabic: نِسَآءَنَا, romanized: nisa'ana) therein refers ...
[32] Muhammad is thought to have lived between 60 and 65 years according to tradition. [35] According to Wim Raven, it is often noted that a coherent image of Muhammad cannot be formed from the literature of sīra, whose authenticity and factual value have been questioned on a number of different grounds. [36]
On the outskirts of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Umm Asaad, a 74-year-old Christian woman who has been displaced 12 times along with her husband, was celebrating Christmas from a makeshift tent.
Women in the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-511148-4. Mernissi, Fatima (1991). The Veil and the Male Elite; A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam. Addison-Wesley (now Perseus Books). ISBN 9780201632217. originally published 1987 in French, 1991 english translation, Paperback 1993