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Al-Suyuti was born to a family of Persian descent on 3 October 1445 AD (1 Rajab 849 AH) in Cairo in the Mamluk Sultanate. [10] According to al-Suyuti his ancestors came from al-Khudayriyya in Baghdad. [18] His family moved to Asyut, hence the nisba "al-Suyuti".
A Meccan surah is, according to the timing and contextual background of their revelation (asbāb al-nuzūl) within Islamic tradition, a chronologically earlier chapter (suwar, singular sūrah) of the Qur'an.
Although the term al-ʿashara al-mubashsharūn (sometimes also al-mubashshara, [1] both meaning 'the ten to whom glad tidings were given') itself dates from a period after the 9th century, [10] the list of ten as such already appears on an inscription made upon a plaster table which is thought to have belonged to the palace of Khalid al-Qasri, an Umayyad official who served as the governor of ...
14-15 The people of Makkah warned by the example of former generations; 16-18 The Quraysh desire a different Quran — Muhammad protests his inability to alter it; 19 Idolaters trust intercessors who can neither profit nor harm them; 20 All men originally professed one religion; 21 The people demand of Muhammad a sign
Hejaz is the region in the Arabian Peninsula where Mecca and Medina are located. It is where the Islamic prophet Muhammad was born and raised. [13]The two holy cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina, are traditionally known as the Ḥaramayn, which is the dual form of ḥaram, thus meaning "The Two Sanctuaries". [14]
The Kaaba in Mecca or Makkah.. Bakkah (Arabic: بَكَّةُ [ˈbɛk.kɛh]), is a place mentioned in surah 3 ('Āl 'Imrān), ayah 96 of the Qur'an, a verse sometimes translated as: "Indeed, the first House [of worship] established for mankind was that at Bakkah [i.e., Makkah] - blessed and a guidance for the worlds."
Al-Suyuti narrates that a man from humanity and a man from the jinn met. Whereupon, as means of reward for defeating the jinn in a wrestling match, the jinn teaches a Quranic verses that if recited, no devil (šayṭān) will enter the man's house with him, which is the "Throne Verse".
Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn al-'Abbas al-Fakihi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسحاق بن العباس الفاكهي, born 215–220 AH; [1] died 272-279 AH [2]) was an eminent 9th-century historian and hadith scholar of Mecca.