The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Muhammad (PBUH) was born onApril 20, 571. His father, Abdullah had died some weeks earlier, and his grandfather took him in charge. According to the Bedouin custom, the children should be entrusted to a foster-mother during infancy and he often lived a number of years in the desert. He suckled only one breast of his foster-mother (Halimah Asadyh), leaving the other for other children. His mother Aminah took him back when he was 3 years old, and they lived happily in Makkah for about three years when he was six his mother decided to take him to yathrib to visit his father’s grave not long after they set out on the return portion of their consent from the town known in later years as Medina Aminah fell ill and passed away. Muhammad was an orphan at the tender age of 6. Another grief awaited him, in the death of his grandfather Abd ulmutalib two years later. When he was dying, his grandfather entrusted Muhammad (PBUH) to the care of his uncle, Abu-Talib. This man full brother to the boy’s father was generous but short of resources and hardly able to provide for his family [14].
Muhammad (PBUH)started immediately to earn his lively hood. He served as a shepherd boy to some of the sheep and goods of the tribal leaders. At the age of ten, he went with his uncle to Syria in a merchant caravan. By the time he was twenty-five, he had become well known in the city for the integrity of his disposition and the honesty of his character.
Kadija ben Kuwilad, a merchant woman of the clan of Asad and came to know of his trustworthiness and honor She sent word to him, asking him to accept her suggestion and trade as her merchant to Syria. She was to give him double wages and the services of a boy called Maysarah. Muhammad (PBUH)accepted this offer and moved out by means of her money [5, 6, 14].
3.1. The Mission of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Prophethood came to Muhammad at the age of 40, and he was commanded to proclaim the message from his lord. Muhammad (PBUH) began by preaching of his important mission secretly in the first instance between family and friends, then among the members of his own tribe and thereafter publicly in Makkah. He persisted in the belief in one Transcendent Allah, in Resurrection and the Last Judgment. He called on all to give alms and charity. He put the necessary produces in place so that the revelation could be retained in exactly the received from, primarily through instructing his followers to memories it just as he did. This continued throughout his life, since the Quran was revealed in piecemeal form[14].
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