1. EARLY LIFE OF THE PROPHET

2. His lineage:
Abdullah (his father)
Abd al- Muttalib (his grandfather)
Hashim/Amr
Abd Manaf
Qusayy
Kilab
Murrah

3. Ka’b
Lu’ayy
Ghalib
Fihr
Malik
Al-Nadr
Kinanah
Khuzaymah

4. Mudrikah
İlyas
Mudar
Nizar
Ma’add
Adnan

5. His birth and childhood:
“The apostle was born on Monday, 12th Rabi’ul-awwal, in the year of the elephant”
It is alleged in popular stories (and only God knows the truth) tha Amina bint Wahb, the mother of God’s apostle, used to say when she was pergnant with God’s apostle that a voice said to her, “ you are pregnant with the Lord of this people and when he is born say,

6. “ I put him in the care of the One from the evil of every envier; the call him Muhammad.” As she was pregnant with him she saw a light come forth from her by which she could see the castles of Busra in Syria. Shortly afterwards Abdullah the apostle’s father died while his mother was still pregnant.”
(Ibn Ishaq, The Life..p.71)

7. It is said that his grandfather took the boy into the Kaba [place of worship] and prayed to Allah and thanked Him for His gift; then he
brought him again to his mother. Soon he hired for the boy a nurse, whose name was
Halima.Halima was the daughter of Abu Dhuayb of the Banu Sad tribe.

8. Amina dies and the apostle lives with his grandfather.
Amina died in Abwa between Mecca and Medina on her return from a visit with him to his maternal uncles of B. Adiyy b. al-Najjar when he was six years old.

9. When the apostle was eight years of age, eight years after the year of the elephant, his grandfather died.
Abu Talib becomes guardian of the apostle.
The story of Bahira:
The Sacrilegious War (Fijar): This war brote out when the apostle was twenty years of age.
(between Kinana and Qays Aylan) Quraysh was with Kinana.

10. The apostle of God married with Khadija. (25 years old)
The rebuilding of the Ka’bah. (35 years old)
His early religion: Bahira said to him :’young boy I ask you in the name of al-Lat and al-Uzza to please answer to all the questions I ask you.’
“…They allege that the Prophet of God replied, ‘Do not ask me for anything in the name of al-Lat and al-Uzza… (Ibn Ishaq, Sira)
“We have been told that the Apostle of God once mentioned al-Uzza saying, "I have offered a white sheep to al-'Uzza, while I was a follower of the religion of my people." (Ibn al-Kalbi (d.206/821), Kitab al-asnam, p.18)