The Seerah
The life of the Prophet ﷺ, day by day.
One hundred and four days, from the world that awaited him to his final breath. Each day takes an episode of his life and retells it to move the heart, with its anchor in the Qur'an verified word for word. Retold faithfully from Dr. Yasir Qadhi's Seerah series. Free to read, as sadaqah jariyah.
Or watch Dr. Yasir Qadhi's full Seerah series on YouTube →The Prologue
Who he ﷺ is, why we study his life, and the world that awaited him
The specialities of the Prophet ﷺ, part 1
What Allah gave him and no one else
Day 2 · Before the story beginsThe specialities of the Prophet ﷺ, part 2
The beauty they could not describe
Day 3 · Before the story beginsWhy study the seerah?
Why we walk in his footsteps
Arabia
Day 4 · The centuries before the Prophet ﷺ was sentThe world before Islam
The darkness that made the light unmistakable
Arabia and the empires around it
From birth to prophethood
The lineage, the birth, the childhood, and the man Makkah trusted
His lineage ﷺ and the Year of the Elephant
The chain Allah chose, and the army He turned to straw
Makkah
Day 6 · The Year of the Elephant, around 570 CEThe birth of the Prophet ﷺ
The du'a of Ibrahim, answered
Makkah
Day 7 · His first eight yearsThe early childhood of the Prophet ﷺ
Orphaned three times, raised under Allah's eye
Makkah and the desert of Banu Sa'd
Day 8 · From about age ten to twentyThe early manhood of the Prophet ﷺ
The quiet years that built the man Makkah would trust
Makkah
Day 9 · Age 25 to 35, the last years before prophethoodMarriage to Khadijah and the rebuilding of the Ka'bah
The honest shepherd, the woman who chose him, and the stone no one could lift alone
Makkah
Revelation in Makkah
The cave, the call, and the cost of saying it out loud
Zayd ibn Harithah and the first revelation
Loved before he was followed
Makkah
Day 11 · Year 1 of the messageThe second revelation
Arise, and warn
Makkah
Day 12 · Three years after the first revelationThe declaration of prophethood
Three years a whisper, then a cry from Safa
Makkah
Day 13 · After the dawah went publicOpposition from the Quraysh
Every weapon they owned, tested against one voice
Makkah
Day 14 · The early years of the dawahThe persecution of the weak
The ones with no tribe, and the God who took their side
Makkah
Day 15 · Rajab, year 5 of the dawahHarm reaches the Prophet ﷺ, and the first hijrah
The cost of one sajdah, and a ship to a just king
Makkah, and the sea road to Abyssinia
Day 16 · Ramadan, year 5 of the dawahThe incident of the so-called Satanic Verses
One real prostration, one planted tale
Makkah
Day 17The second migration to Abyssinia
The truth stands before a throne
Makkah and Abyssinia
Day 18 · Years 6 to 10 of the dawahHamza, Umar, and the boycott
Two lions, then the starving valley
Makkah
Day 19 · Year 10 of the dawahThe Year of Sorrow
Two graves, forty days apart
Makkah
Day 20 · Shawwal, the tenth year of the dawah, weeks after the Year of SorrowThe incident of Ta'if
The day worse than Uhud, and the mercy that answered it
Ta'if and the valley of Nakhlah
The Night Journey and the Hijrah
Through the heavens, then out of Makkah
The Night Journey and the Ascension, part 1
After the hardest year, the heavens opened
Makkah to Jerusalem to the heavens
Day 22 · About a year before the hijrahThe Night Journey and the Ascension, part 2
Past the last tree, where the prayer was given
The seven heavens to the Lote Tree and beyond
Day 23 · After the year of sorrowThe Night Journey and the Ascension, part 3
The morning after the heavens
Makkah
Day 24 · Year 10 of the dawahPlanting the seeds of Yathrib
Six strangers, and a door no empire could open
Makkah, Mina, and Yathrib
Day 25 · Years 11 and 12 of the dawahThe pledges of Aqabah
The night a city took his hand
Mina and Yathrib
Day 26 · Year 12 of prophethood, and the months afterThe early emigration to Madinah
Every road out of Makkah had a price
Makkah to Yathrib
Day 27 · Safar, year 13 of the dawahThe hijrah
Two in the cave, and Allah the third
Makkah to Madinah
Day 28 · Days before he ﷺ enters MadinahLessons from the hijrah
What the road taught, and the city that waited
The road from Makkah to Madinah
Building Madinah
A mosque, a brotherhood, a constitution, a qiblah
Introducing the Madani phase
A city prepared centuries in advance
Yathrib, becoming Madinah
Day 30 · Rabi al-Awwal, 1 AH (September 622)The Madani era begins
Allah's house before his own
Madinah
Day 31 · The first week in Madinah, 1 AHThe first mosques of Islam
Allah's house before his own
Quba and Madinah
Day 32 · 1 AHThe brotherhood of Madinah
Strangers made brothers, a city made home
Madinah
Day 33 · The first months in Madinah, 1 AHThe constitution of Madinah
The first Islamic state, put in writing
Madinah
Day 34 · Rajab or Sha'ban, 2 AHThe change of the qiblah
The morning every prayer turned home
Madinah
Badr
The first decisive test and the day the ummah stood
The preparation for Badr
A market drawn in the sand, and permission to fight at last
Madinah
Day 36 · Ramadan, 2 AHThe Battle of Badr, part 1
A thousand camels, two horses, and a dream
Madinah to the plains of Badr
Day 37 · Days before the battleThe Battle of Badr, part 2
Two unwilling armies, one appointment
From Makkah and Madinah to the wells of Badr
Day 38 · 16 to 17 Ramadan, 2 AHThe Battle of Badr, part 3
An army asleep, a Prophet ﷺ awake
The plains of Badr
Day 39 · 17 Ramadan 2 AH, a Friday morningThe Battle of Badr, part 4
Two boys, a thousand angels, and the fall of a tyrant
The plains of Badr
Day 40 · The three days after the battle, Ramadan 2 AHThe Battle of Badr, part 5
The deceiver flees, and the victor weeps
The plains of Badr
Day 41 · From 20 Ramadan, 2 AHThe Battle of Badr, part 6
Seventy captives, and a necklace from Khadijah
From Badr back to Madinah
Day 42 · The days after 17 Ramadan, 2 AHThe Battle of Badr, part 7
The city that could not weep, the surah that remembers
Makkah, Madinah, and the plains of Badr
Day 43 · Shawwal, 2 AHBetween Badr and Uhud
A poisoned sword, a broken treaty, and the lines being drawn
Madinah
Day 44 · 3 AH, between Badr and UhudKa'b ibn al-Ashraf
A man at war, by his bride's own word
Madinah
Day 45 · A pause between Badr and UhudA summary of the Makkan period
Thirteen years, walked again in one evening
Makkah, remembered from Madinah
Uhud and the years of trial
Loss, slander, and the patience that answered them
The Battle of Uhud, part 1
Three thousand for revenge, seven hundred for Allah
Madinah to the foot of Uhud
Day 47 · Shawwal, 3 AHThe Battle of Uhud, part 2
A mountain at his back, fifty archers on his flank
The plain below Mount Uhud
Day 48 · Shawwal, 3 AHThe Battle of Uhud, part 3
The hill emptied, and the lion of Allah fell
The plain below Mount Uhud
Day 49 · Shawwal, 3 AHThe Battle of Uhud, part 4
Blood on his face, forgiveness on his lips
The slopes of Uhud
Day 50 · Shawwal, 3 AHThe Battle of Uhud, part 5
Seventy graves, and a meeting at the fountain
Uhud, Madinah, and Hamra al-Asad
Day 51 · Muharram, 4 AHThe massacres of al-Raji and Bir Ma'unah
Two wells, eighty teachers, one night of grief
Madinah and the desert beyond
Day 52 · 3 and 4 AHThe Mothers of the Believers
Shelter, honor, and the answered du'a
Madinah
Day 53 · Shawwal, 4 AHThe expulsion of Banu Nadir
Allah came from where they never expected
Madinah
Day 54 · Sha'ban, 5 AHAl-Muraysi and Banu al-Mustaliq
The dawn raid that ended in a wedding and a thousand freed
Madinah and al-Muraysi
Day 55 · Sha'ban, 5 AHThe slander of Aisha, part 1
The night the lie was born
The road home to Madinah
Day 56 · 5 or 6 AH, after Banu al-MustaliqThe slander of Aisha, part 2
When the answer came from above seven heavens
Madinah
The Trench and Hudaybiyyah
The siege of Madinah and the treaty that opened everything
The Battle of the Trench, part 1
When all of Arabia marched on one city
Madinah
Day 58 · 5 AH, the dead of winterThe Battle of the Trench, part 2
Hunger, miracles, and the night the city was surrounded
Madinah
Day 59 · Year 5 of the HijrahThe Battle of Khandaq, part 3
The night the believers were shaken to the core
Madinah
Day 60 · 5 AH, the last nights of the siegeThe Battle of the Trench, part 4
The night Allah sent the wind
Madinah
Day 61 · 5 AH, the morning the siege liftedBanu Qurayzah
Judged by the law they chose for themselves
Madinah
Day 62 · Late 5 AH into 6 AHMinor expeditions after the Trench
The small skirmishes where the biggest hearts turned
Madinah and the roads around it
Day 63 · 1 Dhul-Qa'dah, 6 AHThe Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, part 1
The road to a victory no one could see yet
On the road from Madinah to Makkah
Day 64 · 6 AHThe Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, part 2
The envoys who came to argue and left convinced
Hudaybiyyah, outside Makkah
Day 65 · 6 AHThe Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, part 3
A pledge under a tree, a treaty that hurt to sign
Hudaybiyyah, on the edge of the Haram
Day 66 · 6 AHThe Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, part 4
The defeat that Allah called a clear victory
Hudaybiyyah
Day 67 · 6 AHThe Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, part 5
How the defeat was named the clear victory
On the road back to Madinah
Khaybar to the Conquest
Khaybar, the letters to kings, Mu'tah, and the return to Makkah
The battle of Khaybar, part 1
The fortresses fall, and the banner is given to Ali
Khaybar, north of Madinah
Day 69 · 5 AHThe marriage to Zaynab bint Jahsh
The one marriage Allah Himself contracted
Madinah
Day 70 · Year 7 of the hijrahThe Battle of Khaybar, part 2
After the fortress falls, the heart that turns
Khaybar and Madinah
Day 71 · Around 7 AH, after HudaybiyyahLetters to the kings of the earth
A man from the desert, writing to emperors
Madinah
Day 72 · Dhul-Qadah, 7 AHUmrah al-Qada
The promise of Hudaybiyyah, kept
Makkah
Day 73 · Jumada al-Ula, 8 AHThe Battle of Mu'tah, part 1
Three commanders, one flag, and the sword that would not fall
From Madinah to the borders of Sham
Day 74 · Beginning of 8 AHThe Battle of Mu'tah, part 2
How a retreat became the Sword of Allah
Mu'tah, near the Roman frontier
Day 75 · 8 AH, the winter before the conquest of MakkahThe expedition of Dhat as-Salasil
A brand-new Muslim leads the elders, and an elder steps aside
Northern Arabia
Day 76 · Year 8 of the HijraThe conquest of Makkah, part 1
A broken treaty, and the man who came to beg
Madinah and Makkah
Day 77 · Ramadan, 8 AHThe conquest of Makkah, part 2
The letter in the braids, and the man Badr saved
Madinah, on the road to Makkah
Day 78 · Ramadan, 8 AHThe conquest of Makkah, part 3
The march back, and the men who came home before the gates fell
On the road from Madinah to Makkah
Day 79 · 20th of Ramadan, 8 AHThe conquest of Makkah, part 4
Go, you are free
Makkah
Day 80 · 8 AH, the days after the city openedThe conquest of Makkah, part 5
The day the city he was driven from came to his hand
Makkah
Day 81 · 8 AH, the days after the city surrenderedThe conquest of Makkah, part 6
The aftermath, the pledge, and the adhan from the roof of the Ka'bah
Makkah
Hunayn, Tabuk, and the delegations
The last campaigns and the tribes coming in waves
The battle of Hunayn, part 1
When their numbers pleased them, and the earth closed in
The valley of Hunayn
Day 83 · Shawwal, 8 AHThe battle of Hunayn, part 2
The turn, the unseen army, and the largest spoils ever taken
The valley of Hunayn
Day 84 · Year 8 of the HijraThe conversion of Ka'b ibn Zuhayr ﷺ
The poet under a death sentence, and the cloak that saved him
Madinah
Day 85 · A pause in the story, before RamadanThe miracles of the Prophet ﷺ
Over a thousand signs, and one that never ends
Makkah and Madinah
Day 86 · 8 AH, after the conquest of MakkahLessons from Hunayn and Ta'if
What the largest victory came to teach
Hunayn, Ta'if, and the valley of Ji'ranah
Day 87 · Rajab, 9 AHThe expedition of Tabuk, part 1
The army of hardship, and the men who gave everything
Madinah
Day 88 · 9 AHThe expedition to Tabuk, part 2
The man who would not lie his way out
Madinah
Day 89 · 9 AH, after the return from TabukThe story of Ka'b ibn Malik
The dawn that broke after fifty nights
Madinah
Day 90 · 9 AH, the campaign of difficultyThe expedition to Tabuk, part 3
Who gave everything, and who gave nothing
Madinah
Day 91 · 9 AHThe expedition to Tabuk, part 4
The army finally leaves, and the road teaches
Madinah, then the road north to Tabuk
Day 92 · 9 AHThe expedition to Tabuk, part 5
Twenty days, no battle, and a road that pointed at the future
Tabuk and the road back to Madinah
Day 93 · Year 9 of the HijraTafsir of Surat at-Tawbah
The surah with no mercy at its head, and the most merciful man at its close
Madinah
Day 94 · 9 AH, am al-wufudThe year of delegations, part 1
The year Arabia came knocking
Madinah
Day 95 · 9 AH, the year of delegationsThe year of delegations, part 2
The tribes come to Madinah, one wave at a time
Madinah
Day 96 · Year 9 of the HijrahThe year of delegations, part 3
A false prophet, a distant miracle, and the curse no one would risk
Madinah
The Farewell
The Farewell Hajj, the passing of the beloved ﷺ, and the ummah he left behind
Maria and Ibrahim
The son he held, the day even the sun was blamed
Madinah
Day 98 · Late in the Madinan yearsThe marital dispute and the verse of choice
One month apart, and a choice between two worlds
Madinah
Day 99 · 9 AHThe hajj of Abu Bakr
The year the idols left the pilgrimage forever
Makkah
Day 100 · Year 10 of the HijraThe Farewell Hajj
One pilgrimage, and a goodbye the people did not yet understand
Makkah
Day 101 · 12 Rabi al-Awwal, 11 AHThe death of the Prophet ﷺ
The day the light was laid in the earth
Madinah
Day 102 · His house, and the centuries afterThe mosque and the grave of the Prophet ﷺ
The most honored resting place on earth
Madinah
Day 103 · The Thursday before he passed, 11 AHThe incident of the scrolls
Bring me pen and paper, and the question that followed
Madinah
Day 104 · 12 to 13 Rabi al-Awwal, 11 AHThe election of Abu Bakr
When the first of the two stood in his place
Madinah