Birth of Muhammad

Muhammad , the Master of Prophets, was born in Bani Hashim lane in Makkah on Monday morning, the <date d=9 m=3 y=571/>, the same year of the Elephant Event, and forty years of the reign of Kisra (Khosru Nushirwan), according to the scholar Muhammad Sulaimân Al-Mansourpuri, and the astrologer Mahmûd Pasha.Muhadarat Tareekh Al-Umam Al-Islamiyah 1/62; Rahmat-ul-lil'alameen 1/38,39. Traditional sources place the birth of Muhammad on the night of Monday, 2, 8 or 13 Rabī‛ al-Awwal while others say that he was born in the 46th year of Kisrā Anōshīrwān (al-Bīrūnī, Chronology, pp. 34 [30]).
Ibn Sa‘d reported that Muhammad's mother said: "When he was born, there was a light that issued out of my pudendum and lit the palaces of Syria." Ahmad reported on the authority of ‘Arbadh bin Sariya something similar to this.Mukhtasar Seerat-ur-Rasool, p.12; Tabaqat Ibn Sa'd 1/63
It was but controversially reported that significant precursors accompanied his birth: fourteen galleries of Kisra’s palace cracked and rolled down, the Magians’ sacred fire died down and some churches on Lake Sawa sank down and collapsed.Reported by Al-Baihaqi, but Al-Ghazali didn't approve it - see Fiqh-us-Seerah p.46
His mother immediately sent someone to inform his grandfather ‘Abdul-Muttalib of the happy event. Happily he came to her, carried him to Al-Ka‘bah, prayed to Allâh and thanked Him. ‘Abdul-Muttalib called the baby Muhammad, a name not then common among the Arabs. He circumcised him on his seventh day as was the custom of the Arabs.Ibn Hisham 1/159,160; Zad Al-Ma'ad 1/18; Muhadarat Tareekh Al-Umam Al-Islamiyah 1/62
The first woman who suckled him after his mother was Thuyebah, the concubine of Abu Lahab, with her son, Masrouh. She had suckled Hamzah bin ‘Abdul-Muttalib before and later Abu Salamah bin ‘Abd Al-Asad Al-Makhzumi.Talqeeh Furoom Ahl-al-Athar p.4; Mukhtasar Seerat-ur-Rasool p.13
Source: Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum
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