Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Prophet Muhammad
- Major division of Islam
- When Muhammad died there was a big dispute over who would
be his heir and take charge of Islam, the two possibility were:
- Sunni: Abu Bakr- Muhammad's
closest friend. Father-in-law to
Muhammad. Married to Khadija
and they had a daughter Fatima.
90% of muslims today follow this
division
- Shi'ah: Ali- son-in-law married to Fatima-Muhammd's
daughter. 10% of mulsims today follow this division
- His life
- Born in Mecca in CE 570
- His father died before his birth and he
lived with a Bedouin woman until he
was six
- His mother died
the year he
returned to her
- His grandfather then looked
after him but then he died, so
he lived with his uncle
- He married Khadijah
- He didn't like how people drunk
and gambled in Mecca so he went
to the mountains to meditate
- Angel Jibril delivered the Qur'an to him and ordered
him 3 times to read it but he couldn't then he
suddenly could and was told he a prophet
- The Qur'an was dictated
to him over 23 years
- He began to preach and moved to Medina in 622
CE- this event has called 'Hijrah'
- People excepted Islam as their religion and he
died there in 632 CE