This article is about the Islamic prophet. For other people named Muhammad, Muhammad (name). THE LAST PROPHET ... Islamic prophet Muhammad NO NEW** PROPHET WILL COME AGAIN Born Muḥammad ibn `Abd Allāh c. 570 CE --- Mecca, Makkah, Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia) --- Died 8 June 632 CE (aged 62 or 63) --- Medina, Hejaz, Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia) ---- Resting place Tomb under the Green Dome of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi at Medina-- Hejaz, present-day Saudi Arabia -- Years active 583-609 CE as merchant -- 609-632 CE as religious leader Religion Islam - Wife Married Khadijah bint Khuwaylid 595–619 Sawda bint Zamʿa 619–632 Aisha bint Abi Bakr 619–632 Hafsa bint Umar 624–632 Zaynab bint Khuzayma 625–627 Hind bint Abi Umayya 629–632 Zaynab bint Jahsh 627–632 Juwayriya bint al-Harith 628–632 Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan 628–632 Rayhana bint Zayd 629–631 Safiyya bint Huyayy 629–632 Maymuna bint al-Harith 630–632 Maria al-Qibtiyya 630–632 Children Sons Qasim · `Abd-Allah · Ibrahim Daughters Zainab · Ruqayyah · Umm Kulthoom · Fatimah Zahra Parents `Abd Allah ibn `Abd al-Muttalib (father) Aminah (mother) Relatives Ahl al-Bayt (Family of the House) Part of a series on Muhammad Muhammad Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim (Arabic: ابو القاسم محمد ابن عبد الله ابن عبد المطلب ابن هاشم; c. 570 – c. 8 June 632),[1] also transliterated as Muhammad (محمد), was a man from Mecca who unified Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. Believed by Muslims and Baháís to be a messenger and prophet of God, Muhammad is almost universally considered by Muslims as the last prophet sent by God to mankind.[2][n 1] While non-Muslims regard Muhammad to have been the founder of Islam,[3] Muslims consider him to have restored the unaltered original monotheistic faith of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets.[4][5][6][7] Born in about 570 CE in the Arabian city of Mecca,[8][9] Muhammad was orphaned at an early age and brought up under the care of his uncle Abu Talib. He later worked mostly as a merchant, as well as a shepherd, and was first married at age 25.[10] Being in the habit of periodically retreating to a cave in the surrounding mountains for several nights of seclusion and prayer, he later reported that it was there, at age 40,[8][11] that he was visited by Gabriel and received his first revelation from God. Three years after this event Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly, proclaiming that God is One, that complete surrender to Him (lit. islām) is the only way (dīn)[n 2] acceptable to God, and that he himself was a prophet and messenger of God, in the same vein as other Islamic prophets.[12][13][14] Muhammad gained few followers early on, and was met with hostility from some Meccan tribes. To escape persecution, Muhammad sent some of his followers to Abyssinia before he and his followers in Mecca migrated to Medina (then known as Yathrib) in the year 622. This event, the Hijra, marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar, which is also known as the Hijri Calendar. In Medina, Muhammad united the tribes under the Constitution of Medina. After eight years of fighting with the Meccan tribes, his followers, who by then had grown to 10,000, took control of Mecca in the largely peaceful Conquest of Mecca. He destroyed the pagan idols in the city[15] and then sent his followers out to destroy all of the remaining pagan temples in Eastern Arabia.[16][17] In 632, a few months after returning to Medina from The Farewell Pilgrimage, Muhammad fell ill and died. By the time of his death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam ..
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