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58 unusual facts about Muhammad


Andre Braugher

In 2002, Braugher narrated the award-winning, PBS-broadcast documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, produced by Unity Productions Foundation and recently re-issued.

Assyrians in Iraq

The publication of satirical cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005 led to an increase in violence against the Assyrian community.

Ayn Rand Institute

They hold that the motivation for Islamic terrorism comes from Muhammad's teachings, not poverty or a reaction to Western policies.

Banamba

On holidays (Muhammad's birthday and baptism, Ramadan, Tabaski) women dance to drums in various little corners around town.

Battle of Zhu Qissa

In July 632, Abu Bakr raised an army mainly from the Banu Hashim (the clan of the prophet Muhammad).

Carsten Juste

Juste was embroiled in the controversy following the paper's September 2005 publication of several cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Dorut Tilavat

The lure for Timur was establishing a spiritual connection with a renowned and scholarly family of Bukhara, which also happened to be a direct descendant of Muhammad.

Fazal Nawaz Jung

His father’s antecedents traced their lineage to the Prophet Muhammed, insuring their position in the upper classes of Hyderabadi society.

Gargee'an

The origin of this act goes back to the birth of Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Hasan ibn Ali when the prophet's daughter Fatimah gave out colored sugar cubes to the people in celebration of her new born child on the 15th of Ramadan.

Hatib bin Abi Balta'ah

Hatib bin Abi Balta'ah delivered the prophet Muhammad's letter to the Ruler of Egypt, Maqauqos the Copt.

Hilf al-Fudul

Among the members who agreed to the terms of the pact was the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Jabal al-Nour

The Prophet Muhammad is said to have spent a great deal of time in the cave meditating and it is believed that he had received his first revelation from the archangel Gabriel, inside this cave from God.

Jabal Thawr

The Mountain is notable for housing a cave known as Ghar al-Thawr ( Cave of the Bull), in which Muhammad and Abu Bakr hid from their persecuters, the Banu Quraish, during the migration to Medina.

Jewish views on religious pluralism

Maimonides, one of Judaism's most important theologians and legal experts, explained in detail why Jesus was wrong to create Christianity and why Muhammad was wrong to create Islam; he laments the pains Jews have suffered in persecution from followers of these new faiths as they attempted to supplant Judaism (in the case of Christianity, called Supersessionism).

Kakori

The Abbasi branch claims their lineage to Al-Abbas, an uncle of the prophet Muhammad.

Kåre Bluitgen

Kåre Bluitgen (born May 10, 1959) is a Danish writer and journalist whose works include a biography of Muhammad.

Kargil district

At least until recently, some Kargilis, especially those of the Agha families descendants of Syed preachers who were in a direct line descent from the Prophet Muhammad, were sent to Iraq for their education.

Kazimierz Łyszczyński

Alas if they were present in us, then everyone would have to acknowledge them and would have no doubts and would not contradict the Writings of Moses and the Gospels - which is not true - and there would be no different congregations and their followers as Mahomet etc.

Khuldabad

A small room in an angle of the courtyard wall is said to contain the robe of the prophet, which is exhibited once a year on 12th Rabi-ul-awal.

Lake Zamkaft

Lake Zamkaft is the ocean of light that Islamic prophet Muhammad is said to have flown over while on the Barak, during the Isra and Mi'raj (Arabic: الإسراء والمعراج).

Mokhtarnameh

Mukhtar Thaqafi is a Shiite Muslim leader who sets up a rebellion movement in 686 A.D in the town of Kufa to avenge the martyrdom of Hussein (grandson of Islamic Prophet Muhammad).

Muhammad Abu Tir

In an interview with the Israeli Channel 10 television Abu Tir stated that he had decided to dye his beard with henna because the prophet Muhammad had done so and also because it was a remedy for headaches and dandruff.

Muhammad-Husayn Ayrom

The Ayrums were originally the inhabitants of large marches straddling the current borders of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the district of Ganja.

Muhammad-Shah ibn Bahram-Shah

Their devastation of the province had made the city of Bardasir virtually uninhabitable, so Muhammad-Shah made Bam his capital.

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

The book gives a comparison between the three major monotheistic religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Sources used are Ibn Ishaq (references here are to Ferdinand Wüstenfeld’s edition of Sirat Rasul Allah, a life of the Prophet by Muhammad ibn Ishaq in the annotated recension of Ibn Hisham).

In 1990, after the book had attracted the attention of Azhar University, Lings received a decoration from President Hosni Mubarak.

This retelling of the sira or life of the Prophet is based directly on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, including some passages which were translated here for the first time.

Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet

Funding for Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Arabian Bulk Trade, Sabadia Family Foundation, Irfan Kathwari Foundation, El-Hibri Foundation, Qureishi Family Trust, and many individual contributors.

Muhammad's views on Christians

According to Sunni tradition, Abu Sufyan ibn Harb came forward and a discussion between them took place.

According to traditional Islamic sources, in 628 Muhammad sent a letter to Heraclius inviting him to Islam.

Muhammad's views on Jews

Banu Qurayza were appointed Sa'd ibn Mua'dh, a leading man among the allied Aws, a tribe that converted to Islam, whom they believed would judge in their favour.

After his migration (hijra) to Medina from his home-town of Mecca, he established an agreement known as the Constitution of Medina between the major Medinan factions, including the Jewish tribes of Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir, and Banu Qurayza that secured equal rights for both Jews and Muslims as long as Jews remained politically supportive.

In the course of Muhammad's proselytizing in Mecca, he viewed Christians and Jews, both of whom he referred to as "People of the Book", as natural allies, sharing the core principles of his teachings, and anticipated their acceptance and support.

Nazim Al-Haqqani

Haqqani has claimed that the source of these predictions is the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

Nevesinje

This uprising is interesting because it was the first time that Orthodox Serbs and Muslim Bosniaks fought on the same side under the slogan: "For the holy cross and the faith of Muhammad" (Za krst časni i vjeru Muhamedovu).

Nikah 'urfi

This is supported by the words of Prophet Muhammad: “The difference between what is halaal and what is haraam is beating the daff and raising the voice at weddings.”

Nursing in Islam

Nursing in Islam is a healthcare services related to caring patient, individual, family and community as manifestation of love for Allah and the Prophet Muhammad.

Parangipettai

The grave of Ukkashah (Radiallahu anho), companion of the prophet Muhammad is thought by many inhabitants to be located in Porto Novo.

Payangadi

Malik Dinar, a scholar during the times of the Islamic prophet Muhammad arrived here to set up a mosque, making it one of the first places that Islam was introduced in India.

Places of worship in Kannur district

A block of white marble in the mosque is believed to have been brought from Mecca by its founder, who came to India to spread the word of Muhammad.

Qila Sobha Singh

There are also few religious schisms which remain busy in proselytising the dwellers of the town to Islamic teachings ordained by the prophet Muhammad.

Quranic timeline

22 December 609 CE, Muhammad recites a chapter of the Quran for the first time after angel Gabriel reveals surah Al-Alaq in the cave of Hira.

Raj`a

According to his book (تنوير الحلك في إمكان رؤية النبي والملك), or The Possibility of Seeing the Prophet and the Angels, Suyuti claims to have seen the Prophet Muhammad over 70 times while he was awake.

Raske Menn

Their most famous sketch is "Verdenshistorien på 5 minutter" which can be translated to "The history of the world in 5 minutes" The 5 minute long sketch is essentially a summary of the most important events and people through history including Jesus Christ, Charles Darwin, Muhammad, Neil Armstrong, Moses and the vikings.

Religion in Bangladesh

Although these Shias are few in number, Shia observance commemorating the martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Husain ibn Ali, is widely observed by the nation's Sunnis.

Sa'id al-Afghani

Afghani also spent ten years composing a biography of Aisha, the Muslim prophet Muhammad's second or third wife; the book was noted for Afghani's views on women in Islam, which Moroccan feminist writer Fatema Mernissi described as representative of all the Muslim world's most conservative views.

Super Best Friends

Jesus promptly requires the assistance of the Super Best Friends, a group of major religious figures including Muhammad, Buddha, Moses, Joseph Smith, Krishna, Laozi and Sea Man.

It depicts several religious figures, including Muhammad, whose appearance at the time of the original airing caused little to no controversy.

Sven Kalisch

Muhammad Sven Kalisch is a German who converted to Islam at age 15, became the first in Germany to hold a chair in Islamic theology (at Munster University), then in 2008 announced that he had come to the conclusion that the prophet Muhammad never existed.

Thank You Allah

This music video serves as a tribute to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

The Children's Encyclopædia

In May 1973 riots occurred in Jammu and Kashmir, India, in an area where Jamaat-e-Islami was gaining influence, sparked by the discovery that an illustration contained in The Book of Knowledge, which had been stored in a local library for decades, portrayed the Archangel Gabriel dictating portions of the Quran to the Moslem Prophet Muhammad.

Muslims offended by a visual depiction of Muhammad caused riots which left four dead and over a hundred wounded.

The Hundred-word Eulogy

The Hundred-word Eulogy (百字讃 bǎizìzàn) is a 100-character praise of Islam, Allah, and the prophet Muhammad written by the Hongwu Emperor of China (r. 1368-1398).

The Master of the Monolith

...and I read, too, of the lost, grim black cavern high in the hills where the horrified Turks hemmed a monstrous, bloated, wallowing toad-like being and slew it with flame and ancient steel blessed in old times by Muhammad, and with incantations that were old when Arabia was young.

Vz. 24

The speaker is required to have 'the weapon of the day' by his side, according to the tradition of the Prophet Muhammad, who carried a sword in this capacity.

Warna 94.2FM

On the day of Maulidur Rasul(birth of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad), all regular programmes were subsequently changed to Religious programme.

Zaloora

Among Muslims, "Mir" became a synonym of "sayyid" as meaning a "relative of prophet Muhammad".


Al-Fakhri Abdullah

Al-Fakhrī ‘Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Husain is the 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq of Ismaili Sulaymanis.

Al-Kamil Muhammad

Batu agreed to hold off invading Mayyafariqin if Al Kamil Muhammad would go in person to the Great Khan Möngke in Karakorum to present his submission.

An-Nasir Muhammad bin Abdallah

After the death of a-Mansur in Kawkaban, Izz ad-Din Muhammad was proclaimed as imam under the name an-Nasir Muhammad.

Architecture of Kerala

The Arabian Peninsula, the cradle of Islam also had direct trade contact with Kerala coast from very early times, as far as the time of Muhammad or even before.

Baoni State

The last governor, Muhammad al-Hasan Mushtaq, signed the document of accession to India August 15, 1947 and continued to rule the state that joined the Union of States of Vindhya Pradesh on April 2 of 1948 and remained as head of the state until December 31, 1949.

Bilali Document

Past writers, including Reverend Dwight York (aka Imam Isa) who claimed he was his great-grandfather, have conflated Bilali Muhammad (aka Ben Ali, BuAllah, Bilali Smith, and Mahomet Bilali) with individuals with similar names.

Chaya Chobi

Chaya Chobi is an upcoming Dhallywood romantic film directed by Muhammad Mustafa Kamal Raaj and produced by Nine Entertainment.

Chenab Group

Mian Muhammad Latif, the group's chairman, laid the foundation by setting up a processing unit in Faisalabad later joined by his younger brothers Mian Muhammad Naeem and Mian Javed Iqbal.

Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State

The evidence presented by the authors effectively corroborate the view of other scholars, such as Fred Donner's historiographical work, John Wansbrough or Patricia Crone and Michael Cook's book Hagarism who on different grounds propose that Islam and the Qu'ran were not the work of Muhammad or the Arabic deity.

Dust Muhammad

The emperor Humayun sitting on some stone likeness of the throne, and in the distance under the trees playing three boys, one of whom the future Emperor Akbar I. Restless nature Doust Muhammad gave him root and in the court of the Mughal emperors - in the early 1560s, is already under Emperor Akbar I, Dust Muhammad left India and returned to Iran, where he lived out the last days in Qazvin.

Enamul Karim Nirjhar

Enamul Karim Nirjhar was born to Muhammad Afsar Ali and Momtaz Begum in Rajshahi of the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.

Exceptional circumstances

The term has also been used to refer to other extraordinary circumstances which might result in a person acting in a manner not ordinarily accepted as common practice, such as the circumstances described by Dr. Muhammad Hedayetullah in relation to the Islamic prayer, salat.

Ghiyas ad-Din Ghori

In 1198, Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Fakhr, the successor and son of Fakhr al-Din Masud, conquered Balkh, Chaghaniyan, Vakhsh, Jarum, Badakhshan, and Shighnan from the Kara-Khitan Khanate, and was given the title of Sultan by Ghiyas.

History of cricket in Pakistan from 1947 to 1970

Spin Bowler: Muhammad Amin, known for his unique bowling style and was one of the few players of his time who could actually execute a googly

Invasion of Buwat

After the safe return of the Muslim force to Madīnah led by Ḥamzah ibn ‘Abdu’l-Muṭṭalib, Muḥammad personally led 200 mounted men including both al-Muhājirūn and al-Anṣār to Buwāṭ. This expedition took place a month after the expedition at al-Abwā’.

Isah Mohammad

Isah Adam Muhammad (born April 22, 1987 in Kano) is a Nigerian taekwondo practitioner.

Khalid Abdul Muhammad

In 1983, Minister Farrakhan named him Khalid after the Islamic general Khalid ibn al-Walid, a follower of the prophet Muhammad, calling him the Sword of Allah.

Khan Muhammad Khan

Colonel Khan Muhammad Khan (Urdu: کرنل خان محمد خان)was a prominent soldier and politician in Poonch, serving in the Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly and later as Chairman of the War Council during the 1947 War of Independence.

Kiazai

Kiazai clans in Iran include Lar Muhammad Hasni, Sistani Muhammad Hasni, Baloch Muhammad Hasni, Kurd Muhammad Hasni and Brahui Muhammad Hasni.

Mu'allaqat

The customs of the Arabs before Prophet Muhammad are pretty accurately known to us; we have also a mass of information about the affairs of Mecca at the time when the Prophet arose; but no trace of this or anything like it is found in really good and ancient authorities.

Muhammad Abdel Moneim

Following the abdication of King Farouk, Muhammad Abdul Moneim served as Chairman of the Council of Egyptian Regency from 26 July 1952 to 18 June 1953 for the infant King Fuad II, being created His Royal Highness in 1952.

Muhammad Al-Hafiz Hamzah

Muhammad Al-Hafiz Hamzah (born March 15, 1984 in Pendang, Kedah) is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Johor Darul Takzim FC in the Malaysia Super League.

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times is an award-winning biography of the boxer Muhammad Ali, written in 1991 by Thomas Hauser.

Muhammad Farooq

Muhammad Farooq did his early Nazra education from Karachi by Qari Kal-e-Khan, and he learned Tajweed and Hifz (11 Pare) by Qari Hilal Ahmad Dehlavi, Imam and Khateeb of Tooba Mosque (Masjid e Tooba) Defense Housing Society Karachi.

Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen

Sheikh Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen at-Tamimi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن صالح بن محمد بن سليمان بن عبد الرحمن العثيمين التميمي) (March 9, 1925 – January 10, 2001) was one of the most prominent Sunni Muslim Islamic scholars of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Muhammad in the Bible

These include claims that passages in Deuteronomy are the Torah verses referred to in Al A'raf, and that the reference to the "Paraclete" in the Gospel of John is the Gospel reference to Muhammad.

Subsequent Muslim writers have expanded on these arguments and have claimed to identify other references to Muhammad in the text of the Bible, both in the Jewish Tanakh and in the Christian New Testament.

Muhammad Salih Baraghani

Muhammad Salih Baraghani (born 1753) was one of three or four brothers from Baraghan who all established themselves as leading mujtahids in Qazvin.

Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

Chaudhry Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, KCSI (February 6, 1893 - September 1, 1985) was one of the leading Founding Fathers of modern Pakistan, politician, statesman, diplomat, international jurist, and a prominent scholar of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

Nathaniel Muhammad

Nathaniel Musaaleh Muhammad, was the Nation of Islam minister of the Kansas City Mosque.

Night Journey

Isra and Mi'raj, a Night Journey taken by the Prophet Muhammad in 621, an event of major importance in Islam

Nolhivaranfaru

Following the 1752 capture of Male' by the Ali Raja of Cannanore and his Malabari navy, Sultan Muhammad Imaduddin III of the Maldives was held captive on Kavaratti island in the Laccadives.

Pare people

They were also known as rainmakers, one notable exponent being Mfumwa (Chief) Muhammad Kibacha Singo, a local ruler of Same who died in January 1981, estimated to be aged between 120 and 140 years.

Pir Syed Muhammad Binyamin Rizvi

Pir Syed Muhammad Binyamin Rizvi received a degree in civil engineering from the G.C.T Government College of Technology, Lahore in 1980.

Sadeq Mohammad Khan V

Sir Sadeq Muhammad Khan Abbasi was born at Derawar on 29 September 1904, the only son and heir of Haji Nawab Muhammad Bahawal Khan Abbasi V, Nawab of the state of Bahawalpur.

Sayeed Salahudeen

He then joined Hizbul Mujahideen founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar alias "Master" who later parted from Hizbul Mujahideen was replaced by Muhammad Yousuf Shah who then adopted nom de guerre "Sayeed Salahudeen", named after Saladin, the 12th century Muslim political and military leader, who fought in the Crusades.

Sayyid dynasty

After the death of Mubarak Khan, his nephew Muhammad Khan ascended the throne and styled himself as Sultan Muhammad Shah.

Sekolah Menengah Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra

Sekolah Menengah Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra or SMSTMFP is a premier government-funded secondary boarding school (Sekolah Berasrama Penuh) in Pengkalan Chepa, Kota Bharu in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia.

Sepak takraw

However, Tun Perak managed to restrain them from such an act of treason by saying that he would no longer accept Raja Muhammad as the Sultan's heir.

Songhai people

Following Sonni Ali's death, Muslim factions rebelled against his successor and installed Soninke general, Askia Muhammad (formerly Muhammad Toure) who was to be the first and most important ruler of the Askia dynasty (1492–1592).

Tansen

Niyamat Khan Sadarang, who was one of the most influential musicians of the 18th century, had a brilliant career as singer-composer and binkar under the aegis of the Emperor Muhammad Shah (reign: 1719-1748).

Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2006

11 April:- Over 50 people, including Sunni (Barelvi) scholars, were killed in a bomb explosion at a religious gathering celebrating the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in Nishtar Park, Karachi.

The Farewell Sermon

Man is born from Adam (Adem) and Eve, Muhammad said, and both of these parents, and all of humans, are made of dust, and in this right, no one person is better than the other.

The Road To Mecca

A Road to Mecca - The Journey of Muhammad Asad, 2008 documentary on the life of Muhammad Asad, made by Austrian filmmaker Georg Misch