عن ابن عبَّاس رضي الله عنه قال: (بُعِثَ رسولُ الله ﷺ لأربعين سنةً، فمكثَ بمكةَ ثلاثَ عشْرةَ سنةً يُوحَى إليه، ثم أُمِر بالهجرةِ فهاجر عشْرَ سنين، ومات وهو ابنُ ثلاثٍ وستينَ سنةً)
16 - To know God’s Messenger
Ibn ‘Abbās narrated:
The Prophet (peace be upon him) was given his message when he was forty years of age. He continued to live in Makkah receiving revelations for thirteen years. He was then commanded to migrate and he stayed in his place of migration for ten years. He passed away when he was sixty-three years old.
Related Quranic Verses
Muhammad is only a messenger: all messengers have passed away before him. If, then, he dies or is slain, will you turn about on your heels? He that turns about on his heels will not harm God in any way. God will reward those who are grateful [to Him].
(3: 144)
Anyone who migrates for God’s cause will find on earth many places for refuge and great abundance. He who leaves his home, fleeing from evil unto God and His Messenger, and is then overtaken by death, his reward is reserved for him with God. God is much-forgiving, ever-merciful.
(4: 100)
If you do not help him [the Prophet]; God [will, as He] supported him at the time when the unbelievers drove him away. He was only one of two. When these two were alone in the cave, he said to his companion: ‘Do not grieve, for God is with us’. Thereupon God bestowed on Him the gift of inner peace, and sent to his aid forces which you did not see. He brought the word of the unbelievers utterly low, while the word of God remained supreme. God is mighty, wise.
(9: 40)
Read in the name of your Lord who has created (1) – created man out of a clinging cell mass. (2) Read – for your Lord is the most Bountiful One, (3) who has taught the use of the pen, (4) taught man what he did not know.
(96: 1-5)
