HISTORY OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD SAW

‎)))HISTORY OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD
"S A W W"(((
part 2

Hijira

Persecution continued to increase
until prophet Muhammad (s a w w)
received some
welcome news: he had gained
followers in the city of Yathrib, 280
miles north of Mecca.
The city was in
need of a strong leader, and a
delegation from Yathrib proposed that
prophet Muhammad (s a w w) take the
job. In return,
they pledged to worship Allah only,
obey prophet Muhammad (s a w w)
and defend him and
his followers to the death.

Allah "s w"
revealed to prophet Muhammed (

s a w
w) his approval
of this arrangement, and Muhammad
made plans to escape to Yathrib.
The leaders in Mecca heard of the
planned escape, and attempted to
prevent it. But prophet Muhammad (s a
w w) and his
close friend sayyid na Abubakar
managed to
make a narrow escape north out of
the city, evading a Meccan search
party and arriving safely in Yathrib.

This event is celebrated by Muslims as
the Hijira. The year in which it
occurred, 622, is the date at which the
Muslim calendar begins. Yathrib was
renamed Medinat al-Nabi, "the City of
the Prophet," and is now known
simply as Medina, "the City."
In Medina, prophet Muhammad (s a w
w) proved

himself an able politician and
statesman as well as a prophet.
Exercising superb statecraft, he
welded the five heterogenous and
conflicting tribes of the city, three of
which were Jewish, into an orderly
confederation....... His reputation spread
and people began to flock from every
part of Arabia to see the man who
had wrought this 'miracle.' (Smith,
230).

Battle for Mecca

After establishing himself in Medi a
and accomplishing the job he had
been invited to do, the people of
Medina began several years of battle
with prophet Muhammad's (s a w w)
former home city.
In 624, the Muslims won their first
battle against the Meccans. As the
latter had a much larger army, the
former took the victory as a sign that
God (Allah) was on their side. However,
a
subsequent battle was not victorious

and prophet Muhammad (s a w w)
himself was
wounded.

But in 627, the Meccans
attacked Medina, and Medina came
out on top. The Prophet was not to
lose again.
In 630, prophet Muhammad (s a w w)
and his forces
marched to Mecca and defeated it.

The Prophet rededicated the Ka'ba
temple to Allah, witnessed the
conversion to Islam of nearly the
entire Meccan population, then
returned to Medina.
prophet Muhammad (s a w w) died
in 632, having conquered nearly all of
Arabia for Islam.
Spread of Islam
By 634, Islam had taken over the
entire Arabian peninsula. Within

100

years of prophet Muhammad's (s a w
w) death, it had
reached the Atlantic in one direction
and borders of China in the other.
This success was due in large part to
the military and political abilities of
prophetMuhammad's (s a w w)

successors, the caliphs.