The Seerah
Timeline, chapters, themes, places, people and lessons from the life of the Prophet ﷺ.
Every event points to the Qur'an and the Sahih narrations it comes from. Where dates or details are uncertain we say so — history is never filled in with invented detail.
Makkah
Among Banu Sa'd (desert)
Cave of Hira, near Makkah
Mount Safa, Makkah
Mina / Makkah
The Ka'bah, Makkah
Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
Qarn ath-Tha'alib, on the return from Ta'if (per Seerah historians)
Makkah to Jerusalem and the heavens
Al-'Aqabah, Mina
Makkah → Cave of Thawr → Madinah
Madinah
- Building the Prophet's Mosque
- Brotherhood between Muhajirun and Ansar
- The Trench (al-Khandaq)
- His passing
- When his son Ibrahim died
- The woman weeping at a grave
- Umm Sulaym's patience when her son died
- Umm Salama's dua after losing her husband
- When a Bedouin yanked his cloak
- Ten years without a harsh word
- "Advise me" — "Do not become angry"
- Hatib's letter and the Prophet's forgiveness
- The slander against Aisha (al-Ifk)
- The guest, the hungry children and the lamp
- "Show me the market"
- Hakim ibn Hizam asks three times
- "Whoever seeks self-sufficiency…"
- The poor who felt left behind
- Fatima asks for a servant
- His armour, mortgaged for barley
- 'Umar weeps at the marks of the mat
- Three men who wanted to out-worship him
- "Your family has a right over you"
- Jabir's choice after his father's death
- Kissing his grandson al-Hasan
- "Your mother… your mother… your mother"
- Asma' and her non-Muslim mother
- He wept at Sa'd ibn 'Ubada's sickbed
- Visiting the sick Jewish boy who served him
- "I am ruined" — the man who broke his fast
- Abu Dharr asks for a public office
- "Should I not be a grateful servant?"
- Bilal calls the first adhan
- The Qiblah turns to the Ka'bah
- Wahshi comes to the Prophet ﷺ
- The Throne shook for Sa'd ibn Mu'adh
- Bilal's footsteps in Paradise
- "Enough" — and his eyes were full of tears
- "This is mercy which Allah has placed in hearts"
- Fatima's tears, then her smile
Badr
Mount Uhud, near Madinah
Al-Hudaybiyyah
Khaybar
Hunayn
Tabuk / Madinah
Makkah, Arafah and Mina
The Prophet's Mosque
The Prophet's Mosque (Suffa)
Market of Madinah
His home in Madinah
Madinah / Makkah
Madinah → Yemen
Seerah lecture series
Official playlists from the teachers' own YouTube channels. Videos play from YouTube; the rights stay with their publishers.