Muhammad | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-17

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00:03:01 1 Quranic names and appellations
00:04:36 2 Sources
00:04:45 2.1 Quran
00:05:15 2.2 Early biographies
00:06:53 2.3 Hadith
00:08:03 3 Pre-Islamic Arabia
00:11:20 4 Life
00:11:29 4.1 Childhood and early life
00:15:32 4.2 Beginnings of the Quran
00:18:57 4.3 Opposition
00:24:08 4.4 Isra and Mi'raj
00:25:16 4.5 Last years before Hijra
00:27:30 4.6 Hijra
00:28:00 4.6.1 Migration to Medina
00:29:34 4.6.2 Establishment of a new polity
00:31:05 4.6.3 Beginning of armed conflict
00:34:14 4.6.4 Conflict with Mecca
00:38:00 4.6.5 Siege of Medina
00:41:11 4.6.6 Truce of Hudaybiyyah
00:44:30 4.7 Final years
00:44:39 4.7.1 Conquest of Mecca
00:46:32 4.7.2 Conquest of Arabia
00:48:34 4.7.3 Farewell pilgrimage
00:50:41 4.7.4 Death and tomb
00:53:00 4.8 After Muhammad
00:55:22 5 Islamic social reforms
00:57:14 6 Appearance
01:00:54 7 Household
01:04:56 8 Legacy
01:05:05 8.1 Muslim tradition
01:10:30 8.1.1 Depictions
01:14:00 8.2 Medieval Christians
01:15:31 8.3 European appreciation
01:19:44 8.4 Modern historians
01:20:44 8.5 Other religions
01:21:14 8.6 Criticism
01:22:59 9 See also



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Muhammad (Arabic: مُحمّد‎, pronounced [muħammad];  c. 570 CE – 8 June 632 CE) was the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet, sent to present and confirm the monotheistic teachings preached previously by Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. He is viewed as the final prophet of God in all the main branches of Islam, though some modern denominations diverge from this belief. Muhammad united Arabia into a single Muslim polity, with the Quran as well as his teachings and practices  forming the basis of Islamic religious belief.
Born approximately 570 CE (Year of the Elephant) in the Arabian city of Mecca, Muhammad was orphaned at the age of six. He was raised under the care of his paternal grandfather Abd al-Muttalib then by his uncle Abu Talib. In later years he would periodically seclude himself in a mountain cave named Hira for several nights of prayer. When he was 40, Muhammad reported being visited by Gabriel in the cave, and receiving his first revelation from God. Three years later, in 610, Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly, proclaiming that "God is One", that complete "submission" (islām) to God is the right way of life (dīn), and that he was a prophet and messenger of God, similar to the other prophets in Islam.The followers of Muhammad were initially few in number, and experienced hostility from Meccan polytheists. He sent some of his followers to Abyssinia in 615 to shield them from prosecution, before he and his followers migrated from Mecca to Medina (then known as Yathrib) in 622. This event, the Hijra, marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar, also known as the Hijri Calendar. In Medina, Muhammad united the tribes under the Constitution of Medina. In December 629, after eight years of intermittent fighting with Meccan tribes, Muhammad gathered an army of 10,000 Muslim converts and marched on the city of Mecca. The conquest went largely uncontested and Muhammad seized the city with little bloodshed. In 632, a few months after returning from the Farewell Pilgrimage, he fell ill and died. By the time of his death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam.The revelations (each known as Ayah, lit. "Sign [of God]"), which Muhammad reported receiving until his death, form the verses of the Quran, regarded by Muslims as the verbatim "Word of God" and around which the religion is based. Besides the Quran, Muhammad's teachings and practices (sunnah), found in the Hadith and sira (biography) literature, are also upheld and used as sources of Islamic law (see Sharia).