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Timeline of Muhammad's Life

  • 560

    Mecca

    Mecca
    The Kabah contained the venerated black stone "sent from heaven".
  • 570

    birth

    birth
    Mecca Saudi Arabia
  • Nov 14, 610

    First Revelation

    First Revelation
    Receives a message in which he is moved to recite words of "beauty" which he attributed to God
  • Nov 14, 622

    Creates 1st Muslim Community in Yathrib

    Creates 1st Muslim Community in Yathrib
    He was invited to Yathrib to be a mediator in their civil war. Yathrib was renamed Medina which means city of the prophet.
  • Nov 14, 625

    Battle for control with Meccans

    Battle for control with Meccans
  • Nov 14, 630

    Conquest over Mecca

    Conquest over Mecca
    Destroys all images in the Kabah and initiates his religious beliefs
  • Nov 14, 632

    death

    death
    Medina
  • Nov 14, 633

    Unfulfilled Plans

    Unfulfilled Plans
    Muhammad was planning to spread his religion into Syria
  • Orphaned lived with Uncle, Abu Talib

    Did God not find you an orphan and give you shelter and care? Qur'an 93:6
  • Teen Years

    Teen Years
    Worked with his uncle as a merchant traveling in a caravan
  • Married

    Married
    Married his distant cousin and current employer Khadija Bint Khawalayd. He was 25 and she was 40 years old.