Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the miraculous angelic assistance at Badr, specific incidents witnessed by Companions, the theological framework behind it, a…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the Prophet's ﷺ military organization upon arrival at the plains of Badr and two key decisions, the wells strategy and the he…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi introduces the Battle of Badr by explaining the place itself, its symbolic connection to the Change of Qiblah, and the extraordinary s…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the dramatic events of the morning of 17 Ramaḍān 2 AH, as both armies lined up at Badr, from the straightening of ranks to th…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi relates two peripheral incidents from the lead-up to the Battle of Badr, each carrying a principle with lasting relevance. **Incident…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the opening moments of the Battle of Badr and the Prophet's ﷺ own role in the fighting, a topic that generated scholarly disc…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi describes the first military expeditions of the Muslim state in the months before the Battle of Badr, explaining that not all were suc…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi explains that the establishment of an independent Muslim marketplace was one of the Prophet's ﷺ very first acts in Madīnah, financial…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates one of the most celebrated episodes of the Battle of Badr: the killing of Abū Jahl (ʿAmr ibn Hishām), the man the Prophet ﷺ c…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi describes the Prophet's ﷺ mobilization for what would become the Battle of Badr, with the critical insight that it was *not* planned t…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the first casualties of Badr and the Mubārazah, the pre-battle duels that were the traditional Arabian opening to any major e…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates what happened on the Muslim side as they marched toward Badr and discovered they would not be meeting a caravan of 40 guards…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the night before the Battle of Badr, a night of extraordinary spiritual intensity, Divine mercy, and Prophetic vigil. **The…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi explains the theological and strategic framework behind the early Muslim military expeditions. He emphasizes this is descriptive histo…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the Quraysh side of the lead-up to Badr: who went, who resisted, the political dynamics within the army, and the Divine plan…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates an incident preserved in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī that reveals the Anṣār were not passive participants in the coming conflict with Qu…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the most important consultation (*Shūrā*) of the early Muslim state, the moment when the Prophet ﷺ asked his 315-man army, no…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi explains that within approximately the first two years of the Hijra, virtually all the pillars of *ʿibādāt* (worship) were legislated,…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the death of Umayyah ibn Khalaf, the Qurashī slavemaster who tortured Bilāl ibn Abī Rabāḥ, and the extraordinary Divine justi…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates three distinct incidents from the Battle of Badr that reveal different facets of the human experience on that day. **1. Abū…

When the Prophet ﷺ arrived in Madinah, the entire city came out to greet him. People rushed through the streets and pushed toward the arrival route ju…

The Prophet ﷺ paired the Muhājir **ʿAbdur-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf** with the Anṣārī **Saʿd ibn al-Rabīʿ**. Saʿd was known as the wealthiest of the Anṣār, and…

Speaker introduction: Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq is the closest companion of the Prophet (SAW) and is regarded as the greatest of all companions. This story c…

At some point on the desert journey from Makkah to Madinah, after ʿAbdullāh ibn Urayqiṭ the guide had led them to the familiar road and departed, a ca…

Speaker context: Dr. Yasir Qadhi explains how, after Abū Ṭālib's death, the Quraysh felt free to escalate persecution openly. Ibn Isḥāq records that t…

Speaker context: Dr. Yasir Qadhi summarizes the Addas encounter as a lesson in identity and da'wah; he also draws extensive lessons from the Angel of…

During the construction of Masjid al-Nabawī, the Prophet ﷺ himself participated in the physical labor alongside the Companions. When the Ṣaḥābah saw h…

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, when he decided to make the Hijra to Madinah, chose two companions for the journey: ʿAyyāsh ibn Abī Rabīʿah and Hishām ibn al-ʿĀ…

The Banū Shayban ibn Thaʿlabah were a distinguished Arab tribe from northeast Arabia, living in the borderlands adjacent to the Persian Sassanid Empir…

Context: In the 7th year of the Dawah, after the conversions of Ḥamzah and ʿUmar, which deeply threatened Quraysh, all of the Qurashī sub-tribes gathe…

Speaker introduction: Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib (رضي الله عنه) was the Prophet's paternal uncle and his milk brother, they were both nursed by Thuwa…

Speaker introduction: The conversion of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (رضي الله عنه) is one of the most celebrated events in Islamic history. It occurred three…

Ibn ʿAbbās said that Allāh revealed one āyah describing the night of the Hijrah. It is Sūrat al-Anfāl, verse 30: *Wa-idh yamkuru bika lladhīna kafarū…

Speaker introduction: Dr. Yasir Qadhi covers the death of Abū Ṭālib in full detail, working from the account in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, then addressing the…

Speaker note: Dr. Yasir Qadhi says he has given full dedicated lectures on Khadijah's life, including a long lecture to the sisters. Here he covers he…

**A Prayer He Had Never Prayed Before** The Prophet ﷺ had never prayed Ṣalāt al-Jumuʿah in his life. Jumuʿah had been commanded while he was still in…

In the eleventh year of the Daʿwah, two years before the Hijrah, twelve people from Yathrib arrived for Ḥajj and sought a formal meeting with the Prop…

The Prophet ﷺ was making his rounds in Mina, approaching the heavyweight tribes, Banū Kindah, Banū Ḥanīfah, Banū ʿĀmir ibn Ṣaʿṣaʿah. He was concentrat…

After the Prophet ﷺ slipped past his would-be assassins and made his way to Abū Bakr's house, the two of them rode out into the darkness, heading due…

After the Second Pledge of Aqabah, the Prophet ﷺ made a formal announcement to the Muslims, most likely in the house of Dār al-Arqam. Allah had shown…

Within the first month or two after the Prophet ﷺ arrived in Madinah, a practical problem arose: how would people know when it was time for prayer? *…

Speaker note: This covers the preparatory phase and the Isrāʾ (night journey) from Mecca to Jerusalem. The most authentic version is from Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buk…

Speaker note: This covers the return journey to Mecca, the Prophet's ﷺ announcement to the Quraysh, the miracle of the Baitul Maqdis image, and Abu Ba…

Speaker note: During the Isrāʾ wal-Miʿrāj, particularly on the descent, the Prophet ﷺ narrated a series of visions across multiple separate aḥādīth. T…

Speaker framing: Dr. Yasir Qadhi introduces this as one of the most famous and emotionally significant stories in the entire Seerah, the one we all he…

Ibn ʿAbbās tells us that when Sūrat al-Nisāʾ was revealed and the verse came down: *Innal-ladhīna tawaffāhumul-malāʾikatu ẓālimī anfusihim qālū fīma…

The Kindah were one of the most historically prestigious Arab tribes. They once had something approaching a kingdom, a political structure rare in Ara…

Speaker context: Dr. Yasir Qadhi presents this as a miracle Allāh Himself disclosed in the Quran (Surah Al-Aḥqāf 46:29–31 and Surah Al-Jinn 72), and w…

Speaker note: This story is narrated in Musnad Imām Aḥmad from Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنه. During the night of the Isrāʾ wal-Miʿrāj, at some point the Pro…

**Arrival Date** There is genuine scholarly uncertainty about the exact date the Prophet ﷺ arrived in Madinah. The 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal is frequent…

Speaker note: This is Part 1 of the Miʿrāj, covering the ascension through all seven heavens and the meetings with the Anbiyāʾ. It is sourced from the…

One of the first acts of the Prophet ﷺ in Madinah, even before the Masjid al-Nabawī was built, was the institution of **al-Muʾākhah** (المُؤَاخَاة): t…

Despite all the blessings of Madinah, its lush date palms, its water, its generous and welcoming Anṣār, the early Muhājirūn did not love Madinah. Not…

Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr was young, eloquent, and a man who had given up an extraordinary life of luxury to embrace Islam in its earliest days. The Prophet ﷺ…

Speaker context: Dr. Yasir Qadhi explains the political reality the Prophet ﷺ faced upon returning, no tribal protection, basically an "illegal alien"…

After Jaʿfar's hearing, a new threat emerged from within the Abyssinian court itself. When the Najāshī said publicly that what the Muslims recited abo…

In the twelfth year of the Daʿwah, approximately Dhul-Ḥijjah, a few months before the Hijrah, approximately 75 people from Yathrib came for Ḥajj: 72 m…

For days, the Anṣār had been going out of the city every morning toward what is now **Qubāʾ**, the first settlement outside the city gates, waiting an…

This is ʿĀʾishah's narration in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, her earliest memory of the Hijrah, told from the perspective of a girl of six or seven, sitting insi…

The first batch of Abyssinian emigrants, twelve men and five women, seventeen in total, returned to Mecca on a false rumor that Quraysh had accepted I…

When Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr began preaching in the house of Asʿad ibn Zurārah, word reached the leaders of the tribes. Two of the most powerful young leade…

The Prophet ﷺ had paired **Salmān al-Fārsī** with **Abū al-Dardāʾ** as Muʾākhah brothers. This pairing was made later in the Madani period, Salmān had…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates in detail the *Sariyyat al-Nakhlah*, the first armed skirmish in Islamic history that resulted in blood being shed, the first…

**Ṣirmah: The Only Known Ḥanīf of Madinah** Ṣirmah is mentioned by Ibn Isḥāq as the sole recorded Ḥanīf of Yathrib (Madinah). Recall: a *Ḥanīf* (حَنِ…

Surāqah ibn Mālik narrated this story himself, in the first person, after he accepted Islam. It is recorded in the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad. **The bounty…

Suwayd ibn Ṣāmit was not just a poet, he was *the* poet of the Banu ʿAwf, a subtribe of the Khazraj. Poetry in pre-Islamic Arabia was not entertainmen…

ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib narrated: "I do not know of anyone who performed the Hijrah publicly except for ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb." Every other Muslim who emig…

Speaker's framing: Before returning to the events in Makkah, the speaker wraps up the Abyssinia narrative with two final points: the marriage of Umm Ḥ…

Umm Maʿbad narrates this story herself, and she later became a Muslim. She was an elderly Bedouin woman living with her husband in a tent at a place…

Abu Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Asad was the first companion to emigrate to Madinah. He went openly, loading his wife Umm Salamah and their infant son onto a…

When the Banū ʿAbd al-Ashhal tribe converted en masse upon the conversions of Saʿd ibn Muʿādh and Usayd ibn Ḥuḍayr, one man held out. His name was al-…

Allah preserved for us a scene from the unseen in verse 8:48 of Surat al-Anfal: "And when Shaytan made their deeds seem fair to them, and said: None o…

Battle Statistics The Battle of Badr resulted in approximately 70 Qurayshi fighters killed and 73 to 74 taken prisoner, representing roughly 15% of t…

The First Ghanima in Islamic History The Battle of Badr produced the first significant war booty (ghanima) in Islamic history. Previous prophetic com…

The Tribute to Mutim ibn Adi Before deciding the fate of the prisoners, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa-sallam walked among them surveying their fac…

The incident of the Badr prisoners and Q 8:67-68 opens an important discussion in Islamic usul al-fiqh: did the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa-…

Three Wisdoms of Allah's Correction on Prisoners The previous lesson established that Allah corrected the Prophet's decision to ransom the Badr priso…

Departure from Badr The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa-sallam left the plains of Badr on Monday the 20th of Ramadan 2 AH. The battle itself had been on…

Arrival in Madinah and Distribution of Prisoners The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa-sallam arrived back in Madinah with all 70 prisoners of war (after…

Background: Abū al-ʿĀṣ and Zaynab Zaynab bint Muhammad, most likely the eldest daughter of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa-sallam, was married to Ab…

The Quraysh had marched to Badr with absolute certainty of victory, outnumbering the Muslims three to one, carrying the full weight of Makkah's milita…

One of the most remarkable features of the Battle of Badr is that on the very same day, in the same twenty-four-hour period, thousands of miles away,…

The Jibrīl Question Imām al-Bukhārī records a remarkable exchange in which Jibrīl came to the Prophet ﷺ and asked: 'How do you view the people of Bad…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi identifies three primary effects of the Battle of Badr on the trajectory of early Islām: Effect One: The Establishment of Muslim Poli…

Context: Revelation at Badr Sūrat al-Anfāl (Q 8) is often called 'the Quran of Badr.' Virtually every verse of its 75 āyāt is connected to the events…

**Speaker Introduction** Dr. Yasir Qadhi opens by noting that the story of ʿUmayr ibn Wahb is one of the most remarkable and emotionally compelling c…

**Speaker Introduction** Dr. Yasir Qadhi prefaces this story with an extended contextual discussion about the historical relationship between Jews an…

**Overview** Approximately seven days after the Battle of Badr, subsections of the Banū Sulaym and Ghaṭafān tribes, both large Arabian confederations…

**Abu Sufyan's Vow** After the catastrophic defeat of Badr, Abū Sufyān ibn Ḥarb made a nadhr (vow) to Allah that he would not bathe, not even from ja…

**The Quraysh Dilemma** After Badr, the Quraysh faced an existential economic crisis. Their two annual caravans, the rihla of winter and summer, were…

**Speaker Introduction** Dr. Yasir Qadhi introduces this as one of the most controversial incidents in the Seerah, discussed openly in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhā…

**The Four Reasons for Uhud** Dr. Yasir Qadhi opens by distinguishing Uḥud from Badr: Badr was a reconnaissance mission that escalated; Uḥud was the…

**The Meeting** By approximately the 11th of Shawwāl, the Prophet ﷺ had confirmed, through independent spies after al-ʿAbbās's letter, that the Quray…

**The March Begins** On the **14th of Shawwāl, 3rd year of Hijrah**, the Muslim force of 700 marched northward out of Madinah toward the mountain ran…

**The Timeline of Uhud: Three Days** Dr. Yasir Qadhi opens this session by acknowledging the fundamental challenge of the Battle of Uḥud narratives:…

**Abu Dujana Takes the Sword** On the morning of the 15th of Shawwāl, as the sun rose on the Saturday, the Prophet ﷺ turned to the army to inspire th…

**The One Weak Link** The Prophet ﷺ had engineered an almost perfectly sealed military position at Uḥud: - **Three sides** protected by the mountain…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Allah (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) references the archers' crisis in Sūrah Āl-i ʿImrān: "Ḥattā idhā fashiltum wa tanāzaʿtum fī-…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: When Khālid ibn al-Walīd launched his counter-attack through the dry riverbed, the Muslim camp was dangerously complacen…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The death of Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu), the Prophet's uncle, Sayyid ash-Shuhadāʾ (Master of Martyr…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu) was the standard-bearer of the Muslim army at Uḥud. The Shaykh's reconstruction pl…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi relates three peripheral but theologically rich stories from the Battle of Uḥud, following brief mention of Ḥanẓalah ibn Abī ʿĀmir…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Perhaps ten to fifteen scattered reports exist about what happened to the Prophet (ﷺ) personally during the chaos of Khā…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: It is agreed the Prophet (ﷺ) was wounded at Uḥud; how many times and by whom is a matter of differing reports, but pieci…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: As the false rumor of the Prophet's (ﷺ) death spread, small groups of Ṣaḥābah began searching desperately for him. The f…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Ubayy ibn Khalaf was among the most vicious Meccan opponents of the Prophet (ﷺ), the one who had once thrown crumbled bo…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: By the time the Prophet (ﷺ) returned home to Medina, he had been bleeding from his facial wounds for hours, likely half…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The final confirmation that the battle had ended came through a public exchange between Abū Sufyān and the Muslims. Havi…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: SAFIYYAH STOPPED IN HER TRACKS As Ṣafiyyah bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib made her way onto the battlefield toward her brother Ḥ…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: When the survivors returned to Madinah, the women and children lined the streets to learn who had come back and who had…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: HAMNAH BINT JAHSH Among the households the Prophet (ﷺ) personally visited to break the news of the dead, likely, Dr. Qa…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Concerned that the retreating Quraysh might regroup and turn back to finish what they started, the Prophet (ﷺ) announced…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: It is common to describe Uḥud simply as a Muslim defeat, and by the single measure of casualties, this is undeniable: th…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: THE SAME PURPOSE, DIFFERENT TARGET Allah states a near-identical purpose for both battles, but aimed at two different g…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: A hadith preserved by ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī shows how present the memory of Uḥud remained for the Prophet…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: In the aftermath of Uḥud, some of the Bedouin tribes surrounding Madinah, whose livelihood traditionally depended on rai…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: THE TRAP After the killing of their chieftain Khālid ibn Sufyān, the tribe of Hudhayl resorted to a deliberate deceptio…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Khubayb ibn ʿAdī and Zayd ibn al-Dathinnah were taken to Mecca and sold to families who each held a personal blood griev…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: ABU AL-BARA'S OFFER Abū al-Barāʾ ʿĀmir ibn Mālik, a respected chieftain of Najd, the vast Bedouin region north of the Ḥ…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: After Khadījah's death, the Prophet (ﷺ) was reportedly not seen smiling for many months, so profound was his grief. Khaw…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Ḥafṣah bint ʿUmar, born a few years before the daʿwah began, had married young, around eleven or twelve, to Khunays ibn…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: ZAYNAB BINT KHUZAYMAH Zaynab bint Khuzaymah al-Hilāliyyah, of the Banū Hilāl of Najd rather than Quraysh, was already k…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Umm Salamah, Hind bint Abī Umayyah of Banū Makhzūm, was married to Abū Salamah (ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbd al-Asad), the Prophet…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: At the close of the Battle of Uḥud, Abū Sufyān had proposed the two sides meet again a year later at Badr to settle matt…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Ghazwat Dhāt ar-Riqāʿ was fought against the Bedouin tribe of Ghaṭafān, a large and morally unrestrained tribe from the…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The hadith of Jābir ibn ʿAbdillāh, narrated in the first person and, per Ibn Ḥajar, rich enough to yield over a hundred…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: BACKGROUND TENSIONS By the time of their expulsion, Banū al-Naḍīr already carried a history of friction with the Muslim…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Sūrah al-Ḥashr was revealed in its entirety in the aftermath of Banū al-Naḍīr's expulsion, and reading it against that b…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Around this period, the Prophet (ﷺ) instructed Zayd ibn Thābit to learn Hebrew, explaining that he did not want to rely…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The Qurʾān's prohibition of alcohol unfolded in three distinct stages, the last of which, though not directly connected…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: A hadith preserved in Sunan Abī Dāwūd, narrated by Ibn ʿAbbās, records a pre-Islamic custom among the women of pre-Islam…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The Prophet's (ﷺ) first grandson, born to ʿAlī and Fāṭimah, is most likely dated to Shaʿbān of the fifth year of the Hij…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The Prophet's (ﷺ) affection for al-Ḥasan is recorded in multiple settings, famously interrupting a khuṭbah mid-sentence…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Banū al-Muṣṭaliq, a clan of Khuzāʿah settled at the pool of al-Muraysīʿ between Mecca and Madinah, had sided with the Qu…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Among the roughly one thousand captives taken at al-Muraysīʿ was Juwayriyyah (originally named Barrah), daughter of Banū…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Al-Muraysīʿ saw the largest concentration of hypocrites of any expedition in the Sīrah, the campaign was nearby, promise…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: THE SON'S REQUEST As news of the "al-aʿazzu minhā al-adhall" incident spread through Madinah ahead of the returning arm…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: This account is drawn directly from ʿĀʾishah's own extended first-person narration, preserved across several pages of Ṣa…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Freshly humiliated by his exposure as a hypocrite in Sūrat al-Munāfiqūn, ʿAbdullāh ibn Ubayy ibn Salūl seized on Ṣafwān…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: While ʿĀʾishah remained at her parents' house, itself roughly a forty-minute walk from the center of Madinah, giving the…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: With ʿĀʾishah now safely away from the mosque and no longer in a position to overhear, the Prophet (ﷺ) called a general…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: After the public assembly, the Prophet (ﷺ) came to ʿĀʾishah's parents' house together with Abū Bakr and ʿUmar to speak w…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: ABŪ BAKR AND MISṬAḤ Abū Bakr had long financially supported his poor relative Misṭaḥ ibn Uthāthah, a fellow veteran of…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Following Salmān al-Fārisī's suggestion to dig a defensive trench around the exposed side of Madinah, the Prophet ﷺ took…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Jābir ibn ʿAbdullāh, then a young man of about seventeen or eighteen, roughly a year and a half into his marriage, retur…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Along the exact line the Prophet ﷺ had demarcated for the trench, the diggers came upon a stone too large and too hard t…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: While overseeing the digging, the Prophet ﷺ noticed ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir working with twice the energy of everyone around hi…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Before the Confederate tribes arrived, Ghaṭafān, the second-largest force after Quraysh, having been promised half the p…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Reports on the exact duration of the Trench's construction vary, Ibn Saʿd gives six days, others as many as fifteen, and…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: When the Prophet ﷺ sent the four-man delegation to confirm Banū Qurayẓah's betrayal, he explicitly instructed them not t…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: With Banū Qurayẓah's betrayal now confirmed, Sūrat al-Aḥzāb records that the hypocrites (munāfiqūn) sought permission to…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Despite gathering by far the largest army ever assembled against the Muslims, the Confederates suffered, and inflicted,…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Alongside ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Wudd, a small number of other Confederate riders managed to cross the undefended stretch of the…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: ʿĀ'ishah narrates that while staying with the other women and children in the fortress of al-Fāriʿ during the siege, she…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: On one particularly intense day of skirmishing and arrow fire during the siege, the fighting became so constant that the…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: As the siege approached its final days, roughly around the twentieth day by rough estimate, the turning point of the ent…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, the Companion the Prophet ﷺ later entrusted with the secret identities of the hypocrites, earnin…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: ʿĀ'ishah's well-known description of the Prophet ﷺ, that whenever a matter troubled him he would rise to pray (كَانَ إِذ…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: A ḥadīth in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, with versions in al-Bukhārī, records the Prophet ﷺ saying: "I was granted victory by al-Ṣabā,…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The Prophet ﷺ returned home from the Trench, reportedly to the house of Umm Salamah, and had barely set down his weapons…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: As the Companions made their way to Banū Qurayẓah in scattered groups, some setting off sooner than others, since Madina…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, sent ahead of the main force, planted the war banner outside Banū Qurayẓah's fortress, every Yahūd t…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: When word came that Banū Qurayẓah were ready to surrender unconditionally, the Aws, their long-standing pre-Islamic alli…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Reports on the number of men executed vary considerably across the classical sources. Ibn Isḥāq, considered the most aut…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Dr. Qadhi addresses directly what he identifies as the single most common political criticism leveled against the Prophe…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: A minor thirty-man expedition under Muḥammad ibn Maslamah against the rebellious Banū Bakr ibn Kilāb, likely in Shawwāl…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: By 6 AH, with Abū Ṭālib, Abū Lahab, and al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīrah all dead, Abū Sufyān had become the undisputed senior-m…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Sallām ibn Abī al-Ḥuqayq was one of the wealthiest leaders of Khaybar and, crucially, the principal financier of the Gha…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Banū Liḥyān were the tribe responsible for fabricating the request for Islamic teachers that lured a delegation of Compa…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: At some point before the Treaty of al-Ḥudaybiyyah, the Prophet ﷺ sent another large force of 300 men under Abū ʿUbaydah…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Sometime during 6 AH, the exact date unrecorded, the Prophet ﷺ saw himself in a dream performing the complete rites of ʿ…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Reaching Dhū al-Ḥulayfah, the mīqāt (entry point for Iḥrām) for pilgrims departing Madinah, the Prophet ﷺ prayed two rak…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: While the main party marched, scouts patrolling the flanks of the 1,400-strong expedition spotted a distant group of rid…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: At ʿUsfān, roughly midway to Makkah, Busr ibn Sufyān returned with his report: Quraysh had learned of the Prophet's ﷺ de…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: With Khālid ibn al-Walīd blocking the main road at Ghumaym and Abū Bakr's counsel to avoid confrontation accepted, the P…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: At an unrecorded point during the standoff at al-Ḥudaybiyyah, Quraysh attempted a surprise attack on the Muslim camp, re…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The first attempt to bridge the gap between the Muslims and Quraysh came not from either side directly, but from Budayl…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: When Budayl's mission failed to move Quraysh, ʿUrwah ibn Masʿūd al-Thaqafī, a senior leader of Thaqīf present in Makkah,…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Before embracing Islam, al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah of Thaqīf lived a dissolute life as part of a small band involved in dri…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: With ʿUrwah's mission also failing to move Quraysh, al-Ḥulays ibn ʿAlqamah of Banū Kinānah, the largest tribe within the…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: With Quraysh dismissing every neutral or tribal emissary sent their way, the Prophet ﷺ decided it was time to send a Mus…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: After the near-disaster of Khirāsh ibn Umayyah's mission, the Prophet ﷺ turned to a Companion of Qurashī blood, choosing…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: After ʿUmar declined to go himself, fearing his well-known enmity with Quraysh and having no clan left in Makkah to prot…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: As ʿUthmān's absence stretched on with no news, dread spread through the camp and a rumour took hold and hardened, as ru…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: News that the Muslims had taken the Pledge of al-Riḍwān reached Makkah, and Quraysh, rattled, according to al-Bayhaqī's…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Alarmed by the Pledge of al-Riḍwān, Quraysh first sent Mikraz ibn Ḥafṣ in haste. Seeing him, the Prophet ﷺ told the Comp…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Suhayl, the ablest orator and negotiator of Quraysh (Khaṭīb Quraysh) and a member of its council, came with authority an…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: As Suhayl's return-of-defectors clause was still being argued, before it was even written down, his own tortured son Abū…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The treaty's terms, dictated largely by Suhayl and written by ʿAlī, were: a ten-year truce with no fighting between the…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: ʿUmar voiced what many Companions were feeling. He went to the Prophet ﷺ with a string of rhetorical questions: "Are you…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: With the treaty done, the Prophet ﷺ told the Companions to rise, sacrifice their animals, shave their heads, and prepare…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: On the road back to Madinah, ʿUmar, troubled by his outburst, rode up to the Prophet ﷺ and greeted him; there was no rep…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The first test of the treaty came days after the Muslims reached home. Abū Baṣīr, a Muslim of Makkah, fled to Madinah; w…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Soon after Abū Baṣīr came Umm Kulthūm bint ʿUqbah ibn Abī Muʿayṭ, daughter of the man who had thrown the camel's entrail…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: On the way home, after a long day's march pressed late into the night, for the Prophet ﷺ favored night travel, noting th…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Sūrat al-Fatḥ is one of the rare suras revealed whole, all at once, unlike, say, al-Baqarah, which came down across some…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Dr. Qadhi gathers the benefits of al-Ḥudaybiyyah in four categories, Sīrah, theology, fiqh, and modern political thought…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Drawing largely on Ibn al-Qayyim's analysis in Zād al-Maʿād, Dr. Qadhi lists the theological lessons of al-Ḥudaybiyyah.…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The fiqh lessons of al-Ḥudaybiyyah: **Peace treaties with even the worst enemy** Quraysh were the worst enemy the Umma…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The most contemporary, and, Dr. Qadhi notes, most controversial, application of al-Ḥudaybiyyah is to the situation of Mu…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **THE MOST SENSITIVE STORY IN THE SĪRAH** The marriage of Zaynab bint Jaḥsh is a topic the shaykh admits to having post…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **THE TIMING** Ibn Isḥāq places Khaybar in Muḥarram of 7 AH; al-Wāqidī says Ṣafar or Rabīʿ al-Awwal, easily reconciled…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **TEN DAYS AT AL-NĀʿIM** The tribes of Khaybar locked themselves inside their separate fortresses, and therein lay thei…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **FORTRESS AFTER FORTRESS** Khaybar was not one battle but a series, at least eight or nine engagements, some lasting a…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **THE GIFT** After the negotiations, one of the tribes of Khaybar sent the Prophet ﷺ a lavish tray of food, outwardly t…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **IS HE THE ONE?** Ṣafiyyah tells her own story in many narrations. As a young girl she was the favorite of her father…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **A WIFE WITHOUT A CAMP** The wives of the Prophet ﷺ fell broadly into two camps, ʿĀʾishah's and Zaynab's, and Ṣafiyyah…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **AN AUTHENTIC HADITH, RETOLD** This narration, agreed upon by Bukhārī and Muslim, was covered in detail years earlier…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **A CRUEL EMPEROR, A TORN LETTER** Khusrau (Kisrā) Abrawīz, his title later softened in South Asian usage into "Parvez"…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **MAKING UP WHAT WAS ALREADY REWARDED** Between Khaybar and this point, several minor expeditions took place, none poli…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **A WIDOW WITHOUT A GUARDIAN** Maymūnah bint al-Ḥārith, widowed after her husband Abū Ruhm ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā's death an…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **RUNNING FROM A COMING DEFEAT** ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, the shrewd Qurayshī statesman who had once negotiated with the Najāsh…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **A COMMANDER WHO SENSED SOMETHING BEYOND HIM** Khālid ibn al-Walīd, son of Quraysh's chief poet al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīr…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **A RAPIDLY GROWING COMMUNITY** Around 3,000 companions volunteered for the expedition, ten times the number at Badr ju…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **A SMEAR CAMPAIGN** Within days of the army's return, rumors and mockery began circulating against the Mu'tah veterans…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **FEED THE GRIEVING, DON'T BE FED BY THEM** The Prophet ﷺ ordered that food be prepared for Jaʿfar's household, iṣnaʿū…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **A GOATSKIN SHIELD AND A ROMAN OFFICER** Among the Mu'tah fighters was a group of Yemeni volunteer-helpers, al-mudadis…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **Two responsibilities in Medina** The expedition would keep the army away more than a month, close to two, so the Prop…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **A private moment on the march** This incident is preserved in the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad, the largest ḥadīth collection…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **The far northern outpost** During the Tabūk encampment, the Prophet ﷺ sent Khālid ibn al-Walīd with roughly 350 Compa…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **Count six things before the Hour** ʿAwf ibn Mālik narrates, and the ḥadīth is in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, muttafaqun ʿalayh,…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **Al-Mughīrah's close observation** Al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah accompanied the Prophet ﷺ before Fajr when he went away fro…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **The man of the two coarse cloths** A bijād was a cheap, coarse woollen sack-cloth; bijādayn is two of them; and dhū m…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **The carved city** On the way back the army passed al-Ḥijr, the land of Thamūd and the people of Ṣāliḥ. Their dwelling…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **The duʿāʾ over the camels** On the way back the water they had taken from Tabūk ran out, and the animals were failing…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **The lost camel** On the way back the Prophet's ﷺ own camel went missing, and he sent the Companions out to look for i…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **A report kept deliberately brief** The shaykh calls this one of the most unsettling episodes in the Sīrah and also on…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: One incident remains before the story of Tabūk can be closed, and it happened after the army had already come home: with…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: We begin with one of the earliest delegations of all, that of the tribe of ʿAbd al-Qays. They lived in what was then cal…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The second delegation is that of Banū Saʿd ibn Bakr, a tribe you ought to know, because Ḥalīmah al-Saʿdiyyah is from it.…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Two shorter delegations, one ending in a miracle and the other in a rebuke from Allah. **The dates of Muzaynah** The t…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The next tribe was not even a Muslim one: Banū ʿĀmir ibn Ṣaʿṣaʿah, the tribe responsible for the massacre at the Well of…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The last delegation for today is a long one, and it raises theological questions that will be flagged at the end: the de…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The delegations ran from the fifth year to the ninth, and we skipped most of the earlier ones because we were in a hurry…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Another interesting delegation, and this one is squarely in the ninth year: Wāʾil ibn Ḥujr, from Ḥaḍramawt in Yemen. Yem…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The great story of the ninth year is the delegation of Thaqīf, the tribe of Ṭāʾif, the tribe that rejected him ﷺ, that t…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: After the killing of ʿUrwah ibn Masʿūd, the people of Ṭāʾif were terrified. His blood was on their hands, their conscien…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: This is the third and last instalment on the delegations. The books of Sīrah list over a hundred and ten of them by name…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Another story, from one of the tribes of Azd, and this one is a miracle, each of these small delegations carries its own…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: A number of delegations came for no other purpose than to learn, to memorise Qurʾān, to study fiqh, and to ask questions…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The last incident, and one of the most interesting: the delegation of the Christians of Najrān, a famous province of Ara…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Today's lesson is a tangent, catching up on things in the life of the Prophet ﷺ that the five weeks of Tabūk and the yea…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Māriyah bore the Prophet ﷺ a son, and he came to the masjid beaming, the Companions saw him smiling, and said: a boy was…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: One more incident about Māriyah, mentioned more in the books of tafsīr than of Sīrah, because the Qurʾān was revealed fo…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: One incident of the Prophet's ﷺ final days was set aside earlier to be told here, on the way to the election of Abū Bakr…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The private bayʿah at the Saqīfah settled the matter among the senior Muhājirūn and Anṣār within hours of the death, a m…

'Abdul-Muttalib: We have already known that after the death of Hashim, the charge of pilgrims' food and water went to his brother Al-Muttalib bin 'Abd…

The Prophet ﷺ was born in Mecca in the Year of the Elephant, the year Allah turned back Abraha's army, which the historians place at about 570 CE. Two…

After his birth the Prophet ﷺ was given, as was the custom of the noble Quraysh, to be nursed and raised among the Bedouin. The tribe most sought for…

It was during his years among the Banū Saʿd, when the Prophet ﷺ was about four years old, that his chest was opened. Anas ibn Mālik narrates the accou…

When the Prophet ﷺ was about six, his mother Aminah took him to Yathrib to visit his kin there, for his great-grandmother had been of that city, the o…

With both parents gone, the orphan was entrusted to his grandfather Abdul-Muttalib, chieftain of Quraysh, now very old and blind. By the Kaʿbah stood…

When the Prophet was eight years old, death visited his family once again. Abdul-Muttalib, now very old and frail, sensed his time was coming. He gath…

Abu Talib took his nephew into his modest home. Although he had many children and little wealth, he treated Muhammad ﷺ with immense love, often favori…

When the Prophet ﷺ was a boy of about nine to twelve, his uncle Abu Talib prepared to set out with the trading caravan to Syria. As he was leaving, th…

The tribe of Quraysh belonged to the great branch of Kinānah; facing them stood the branch of Qays ʿAylān, which included tribes such as Hawāzin and G…

Some years after the Fijār Wars, when the Prophet ﷺ was about twenty, a nobler event took place. A merchant of the tribe of Zubaid, come from Yemen fo…

The story of the marriage to Khadijah رضي الله عنها begins with the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم as a young shepherd of about twenty-three or twenty-fou…

When the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was thirty-five years old, as Ibn Isḥāq records, the Kaʻah was damaged by two disasters in the same year: first fi…

Āʾisha رضي الله عنها narrates this story in the fifth hadīth of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, in vivid detail, even though she was not yet born when it happened.…

For three years, the message of Islam was spread secretly. Then, the command came to preach openly: 'Warn your closest kindred.' The Prophet ﷺ climbed…

The Quraysh, realizing the Muslims had found a new base, plotted to assassinate the Prophet ﷺ. They selected a young man from each clan to strike him…

The last person that we will cover bi'idhnillahi ta'ala... um, and SubhanAllah, several, several years ago, previous lifetime, I did a video about thi…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The books of Sīrah begin by asking: who are the Arabs? There is nothing scientific here; these are the legends the Arabs…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The story of Salmān al-Fārisī, narrated by himself in the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad and authentic, is the greatest witness th…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl (زَيْدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ نُفَيْل) has the most striking story of the four Ḥunafāʾ, and the Pro…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Waraqah ibn Nawfal (وَرَقَةُ بْنُ نَوْفَلٍ), a cousin of Khadījah, was among the four men of Makkah who set out to seek…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Quss ibn Sāʿidah (قُسُّ بْنُ سَاعِدَةَ) was not of Quraysh but of the tribe of Banū Iyād (بَنُو إِيَاد), who dwelt far o…

When the Prophet ﷺ was a young man he took up the first work of his life: tending sheep. He said, as recorded in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: مَا بَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ…

Zayd ibn Ḥārithah رضي الله عنه was from the Qaḥṭānī branch of the Arabs, the Southern Arabs, not the ʿAdnānī branch of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.…

There is a way to measure who truly knew the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم. Khadijah رضي الله عنها knew him from his mid-twenties. ʿĀʾisha رضي الله عنها…

The first phase of the Dawah was not public. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم moved carefully, privately, speaking only to those who were closest to him…

When Allah revealed: وَأَنذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ, "And warn your closest relatives" (al-Shuʿarāʾ 26:214), the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم unde…

Two Quranic commands signaled the end of the private Dawah period. The first was Sūrat al-Ḥijr 15:94: فَاصْدَعْ بِمَا تُؤْمَرُ وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُش…

In Makkah, tribal law governed everything. No person could be harmed unless the chief of their tribe allowed it. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم belong…

When the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم began reciting the Quran in public, at the Kaʿbah, in the marketplace, Quraysh responded with a tactic that has be…

The Quraysh leaders sat in their *Nādī*, their senate, their circle of elders, discussing what to do about Muḥammad's صلى الله عليه وسلم growing messa…

Quraysh were in a predicament. They wanted to expose the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم as a fraud, but they had no intellectual framework for what a prop…

When the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم went public with the Dawah, the social architecture of Makkah determined who bore the consequences. Everything in…

Bilāl ibn Abī Rabāḥ رضي الله عنه was an Abyssinian slave owned by Umayya ibn Khalaf of the Banū Jumah clan, and Umayya had a sadistic streak that the…

Khabbāb ibn al-Aratt رضي الله عنه was an Arab ironsmith, a craftsman who forged swords for the people of Makkah. He was not Qurashī; he was from the t…

Of all the early Muslim families who were persecuted in Makkah, none suffered what the family of Yāsir suffered. Because most persecution was individu…

Ṣuhayb ibn Sinān al-Rūmī رضي الله عنه was an Arab, from a tribe in Iraq, who had nothing Arab about him by the time he arrived in Makkah. When he was…

The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was not immune to physical harm in Makkah. While the Quraysh generally tolerated some limits, knowing that the Banū Hās…

When the number of Muslims reached approximately twenty to thirty, we have no precise number, the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم realized they needed a pl…

After a year and a half of public Dawah, more than a year of open torture, of camel entrails, of burning iron, of choking, of boulder and desert heat,…

Three months. That is how long the first Abyssinian emigrants lasted before a rumor brought them back to the very land they had fled. They had immigr…

**Two Versions of When the Dream Was Told** Dr. Yasir Qadhi notes that a dream of the Prophet ﷺ has been narrated in two different chronological vers…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Late in the siege, Banū Qurayẓah asked specifically for Abū Lubābah, an Anṣārī of the Aws who, from the tribe's pre-Isla…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: On what turned out to be the final night of the siege, a Muslim sentry, Muḥammad ibn Maslamah, heard someone leaving the…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Years earlier, during the pre-Islamic Wars of Buʿāth between the Aws and Khazraj, Thābit ibn Qays ibn Shammās owed his l…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Around Jumādā al-Ūlā of 6 AH, the Prophet ﷺ sent Zayd ibn Ḥārithah with 170 men to intercept a Qurashī caravan returning…