His Life as the Quran Tells It
The Quran narrates the events of his life as an eyewitness would: Badr in al-Anfal, Uhud in Aal-Imran, the Trench in al-Ahzab, the slander in an-Nur, Hudaybiyah in al-Fath. This is a timeline of his life ﷺ, each event carrying its own verses and their tafsir.
61 events 407 verses 51 narrated in the Quran
The Tidings Foretold 4
Before Prophethood 7
The Meccan Period 16
The Hijrah 2
The Medinan Period 25
His Station in the Quran 7
How this page was made
No commentary of our own. The ordering and dating are our work; the narration is the Quran’s verses; the explanation is the text of Tafsir al-Muyassar or Tafsir al-Jalalayn, quoted word for word and attributed to its author. No passage enters until two conditions hold: that its range is valid within its surah, and that the wording of the event itself occurs in the Uthmani text — so no event is attributed to a verse that does not mention it. Whatever fails either condition is dropped. What the Quran does not narrate stays on the timeline with its date, is said plainly to be unnarrated there, and is referred to the Sunnah. Silence about what we do not hold is better than filling it.
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This event is established in the books of biography but does not appear in the Quran. We did not assign it a verse that does not mention it, nor drop it from the timeline and leave a gap. Its report is in the Sunnah.
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