Part One: SEERAH (Biographical Sketch) CHAPTER

C:\Users\Admin\Dropbox\The Message - Material of Maulana\16. Books and Review\Apa's Books\Life And 27 impatiently for his arrival. The Prophet stayed for two weeks in Quba, where he built the first mosque of Islam. Each morning people used to come out of the city and watch the road from Quba. At last the great day arrived. He set off for Madinah on a Friday morning. When he entered the town, he found that all the people, men, women and children, had turned out to receive him. The women stood on the house-tops and sang songs of joy. They had all lined both sides of the street to receive him. When the Prophet entered the city, everybody wanted him to be his guest. The more zealous held the reins of the camel and wanted the Prophet to dismount in front of their doors and enter their houses. But the Prophet refused politely and said: “Leave my camel alone. She is under the command of God; she will stop where God wants her to stop.” It finally stopped at a site which belonged to two orphans of the Banu Najjar tribe. The Prophet dismounted saying: “It seems that this is where God wants us to stop.” He then bought this land to build a mosque and some houses on it. After settling this matter, the Prophet asked who lived nearest to the site. Abu Ayyub Ansari said that his house was the nearest and requested the Prophet to be his guest. The Prophet stayed in his house for about seven months. In the meantime, his house was built. From the day the Prophet came to Yathrib, it came to be called Madinatun-Nabi or “The City of the Prophet.” The Prophet entered Yathrib on the 17 September 622. This year was later designated by Caliph Umar as the first year of the Islamic era, for this event was considered to be the most important in the history of Islam. Brotherhood of Islam The first problem faced by the Prophet was that of the Makkan refugees. They had neither homes nor money. Most of them had been well to do in Makkah, but they had left everything there. So the first important thing for the Prophet was to settle them in their new surroundings.