Day: March 8, 2024

The first year of the Prophetic Migration

He ﷺ migrated to al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah at the age of alb Hefty-thre fifty-three. He left Mecca for Medina on Monday, the eighth com of Rabi’ al-Awwal.

He entered Medina on Monday the twelfth of Rabi’ al-Awwal at mid-morning, according to the more popular opinion. He was accompanied by Abu Bakr, with ‘Abd-Allāh ibn Urayqit as their guide. It was at Abu Ayyub’s house that he stayed.

The construction of Quba’ Mosque, his most radiant mosque and his dwellings were completed.

The brotherhood of truth, charity and mutual inheritance was concluded between the Migrants and the Supporters; they were ninety men: forty-five men from each group; and it has been narrated that they numbered one hundred. This standard of brotherhood continued as such until it was revealed after Badr, ‘and blood-relatives have more right to one another in the Book of Allah than [other] believers and migrants, except that you may do kindness to your friends. That was recorded in the scripture’ [Qur’an 33: 6]; after which, inheritance through [religious] brotherhood was abrogated.the Messenger of Allah ﷺ Anas [ibn Mālik] was given away by his mother as a servant to . He was ten years old [at the time].

A month after his arrival in Medina, the prayer during residence (iqamah) was legislated as four cycles after having previously been two cycles.

He ﷺ performed the Friday prayer (jumu’ah) at Bani Sālim on his way from Quba’ to Medina; this was the first Friday prayer and the first sermon he delivered in Islam.

The call to prayer (adhān) was introduced.

‘Abd-Allāh ibn Salām accepted Islam.⁹0

The two supervisors Asad ibn Zurārah and al-Barrā’a ibn Ma’rūr passed away.

During the month of Ramadan, he ﷺ dispatched a force consisting of thirty men from the Migrants on a expedition – having appointed over them his uncle Ḥamzah as their commander and personally tying for him a white banner- to intercept a Qurayshi caravan in which there was Abū Jahl along with three hundred men. They reached the seashore from the direction of al-Is.” When direction of al-‘Ïs.” When they took positions to fight, Majdi ibn ‘Amr al-Juhani intervened, so they returned without any 91 any fighting.

In Shawwāl, he sent his first cousin ‘Ubaydah ibn al-Harith among sixty to eighty men from the Migrants to the centre of Räbigh; there wasn’t a single Anṣārī amongst them. It was the first dispatch of an army (ba’th) in Islam; during it, Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas shot an arrow, and so it was the first arrow to be shot in Islam.

There was the expedition (sariyyah) of [Sa’d] Ibn Abi Waqqas in Dhu al-Qa’dah, consisting of twenty men, to al-Kharrār – a valley in the Hijāz which extends to al-Juḥfah – to intercept a Qurayshi

Chapter nine: Life in Medina

caravan. They left on foot and arrived there on the fifth morning [after their departure from Medina] but realised the caravan had already passed a day before.

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ fasted in ‘Ashūra ’93 and commanded [the Muslims] to fast in it. The Jews, during the Era of Ignorance [prior to Islam], used to fast in it, and so he ordered the [Muslim] people to do so.

Two chieftains of the Qurayshi polytheists, al ‘Ãs ibn Wä’il al- Sahmi and al-Walid ibn al-Mughïrah, passed away.94