BIRTH OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD
Geonology of Prophet Muhammad ( peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) The ancestral line
of the Holy Prophet ( peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) is the noblest and purest of all in the
whole world. This is the hard fact that could not be denied by anyone of his enemies and the infidels of
Makkah. Abu Sufyan (may Allah be pleaded with him), even in his state of infidelity, acknowledged it
before the Roman emperor, although, at that time, he was anxious to find any fault with the Holy
Prophet, if any chance permitted him.
His pedigree from his paternal side is: Muhammad, son of Abdullah, son of Abdul Muttalib, son of
Hashim, son of Abd Munaf, son of Qusayy, son of Kulab, son of Murrah, son of Ka'b, son of Lawie, son
of Ghalib, son of Fehr, son of Malik, son of Al-Munfa, son of Kanana, son of Khuzaimah, son of
Mudrikah, son of Ilyas, son of Mudar, son of Nazir, son of Ma'd, son of Adnan, Upto this, there exists a
consensus among the Ummah about the pedigree, but there is a difference of opinion from here to
Prophet Adam( peace be upon him). Therefore, it is being ignored here. And from his maternal side the
Holy Prophet's ancestral line is: Muhammad, son of Aminah, daughter of Wahb Abd Manaf, son of
Zohrah-bin-Kulab. It indicates that his parents lineage joins with Kulab-bin-Murrah.
Pre-Birth Blessings of the Prophet
just as the all-pervading light and red glimmer of the dawn fore-tells the rising of the sun
before its actual appearance, similarly several events happened around the world insinuating his
advent when the rise sun of prophet hood draw nearer. The scholars of Hadith and the historians
call them " Irhasat".
According to the statement of the Holy Prophet's mother, when she conceived him, she was given
glad tidings in her dream that the child she had conceived would be the leader of the Umma, and
that she should name him Muhammad and offer this supplication.
Birth of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him)
This is a unanimously agreed fact that he was born during Rabi-ul-Aewwal (a month of Islamic
Calendar) in the year, when the people of the Elephant (The King of Yaman had attacked Baitullah
) attacked Baitullah (The House of God), whom the Lord of the universe defeated through the
swarms of swallows as briefly mentioned in the Holy Qur'an. In reality this event of the Elephant was
also a preamble of the blessings of the Holy Prophet's birth. His place of birth is the house which was
later possessed by Muhammad bin Yousaf, the brother of Hajjaj (Seerat Mughaltai : p. 125). Some
historian have written that the event of the Elephant happened on 20th April, 517 A .D., which
connotes the Prophet Muhammad ( Peace be upon him) was born five Hundred and seventy one
years after the birth of prophet Jesus Christ (peace be upon him).
Ibne Asakir, Imam of Hadith ( an authority on Hadith) had briefly recorded the history of the
whole world like this : ( the Period intervening Prophet Adam and Noah ( Peace be upon him) is one
thousand and two hundred years ; the term of period intervening between Noah (peace be upon
him) and Abraham ( peace be upon him) is one thousand one hundred and forty two years; the
interval between Abraham ( peace be upon him) and Moses (peace be upon him) consists of five
hundred and sixty-five years ; that between Moses and David, it is five hundred and seventy two
years ; that between David (peace be upon him) and Jesus Christ it is one thousand, three hundred
and fifty-six years and the gap intervening Jesus and the last Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon
him) is six hundred years. According Messenger of Allah ( peace be upon him) is of five thousand
and twenty years. The well-known saying is that the prophet Adam ( peace be upon him) lived on
this earth for nine hundred and sixty years, As such the last of the Prophet, the Prophet Muhammad
( peace be upon him) appeared on the global scene in this world approximately after six thousand
years i.e. in the seventh thousand years.
( Tareekh Ibn Asakir P.19.20 Part -1)
In short, the 12th Rabi-ul-Awwal of the year, in which the people of the Elephants had attacked,
was a unique day in the history of the world, because it was on that day when the very object of this
universe the real purpose of the regular rotation day and night, the pride of Adam and his posterity
the secret of the protection of the Noah's ark, the supplication of Abraham and the pivot of the
prediction of Moses and Jesus i.e. our renowned master, Muhammad the Messenger of Allah (peace
be upon him), graced this world with his benign arrival.