Step back
The big pictureThe whole Qur'an, and the life it came down into, in one view
A single quiet view of the 23 years — each chapter of the seerah beside the surahs revealed inside it. Six chapters, in order, nothing else.
Chapter 01 · 609–611
The Cave of Ḥirāʾ — the first revelation
His life
- Born in Makkah, in the Year of the Elephant
- The desert years with Ḥalīmah
- Āminah, ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, and the care of Abū Ṭālib
- The journey to Shām and the monk Baḥīrā
What came down
12 surahs placed in this chapter.
Chapter 02 · 612–614
Going public — and the persecution
His life
- The call at Mount Ṣafā
- Quraysh go to Abū Ṭālib
- The torture of the defenceless
- Bilāl رضي الله عنه under the rock, and Abū Bakr رضي الله عنه buying him free
What came down
31 surahs placed in this chapter.
- #13Sūrah Al-ʿAṣr
- #14Sūrah Al-ʿĀdiyāt
- #15Sūrah Al-Kawthar
- #16Sūrah At-Takāthur
- #17Sūrah Al-Māʿūn
- #18Sūrah Al-Kāfirūn
- #19Sūrah Al-Fīl
- #20Sūrah Al-Falaq
- #21Sūrah An-Nās
- #22Sūrah Al-Ikhlāṣ
- #23Sūrah An-Najm
- #24Sūrah ʿAbasa
- #25Sūrah Al-Qadr
- #26Sūrah Ash-Shams
- #27Sūrah Al-Burūj
- #28Sūrah At-Tīn
- #29Sūrah Quraysh
- #30Sūrah Al-Qāriʿah
- #31Sūrah Al-Qiyāmah
- #32Sūrah Al-Humazah
- #33Sūrah Al-Mursalāt
- #34Sūrah Qāf
- #35Sūrah Al-Balad
- #36Sūrah Aṭ-Ṭāriq
- #37Sūrah Al-Qamar
- #38Sūrah Ṣād
- #39Sūrah Al-Aʿrāf
- #40Sūrah Al-Jinn
- #41Sūrah Yā Sīn
- #42Sūrah Al-Furqān
- #43Sūrah Fāṭir
Chapter 03 · 615–617
The boycott and the Year of Sorrow
His life
- The pact of boycott
- Three years in the valley
- Five men break the pact
- The document is annulled
What came down
7 surahs placed in this chapter.
Chapter 04 · 617–621
The journey to Ṭāʾif and the Night Journey (al-Isrāʾ)
His life
- The journey to Ṭāʾif
- The vineyard and ʿAddās
- Return under the protection of al-Muṭʿim
- Sawdah رضي الله عنها, and the betrothal to ʿĀʾishah رضي الله عنها
- #50Sūrah Al-Isrāʾ
- #51Sūrah Yūnus
- #52Sūrah Hūd
- #53Sūrah Yūsuf
- #54Sūrah Al-Ḥijr
- #55Sūrah Al-Anʿām
- #56Sūrah Aṣ-Ṣāffāt
- #57Sūrah Luqmān
- #58Sūrah Sabaʾ
- #59Sūrah Az-Zumar
- #60Sūrah Ghāfir
- #61Sūrah Fuṣṣilat
- #62Sūrah Ash-Shūrā
- #63Sūrah Az-Zukhruf
- #64Sūrah Ad-Dukhān
- #65Sūrah Al-Jāthiyah
- #66Sūrah Al-Aḥqāf
- #67Sūrah Adh-Dhāriyāt
- #68Sūrah Al-Ghāshiyah
- #70Sūrah An-Naḥl
- #71Sūrah Nūḥ
- #72Sūrah Ibrāhīm
- #73Sūrah Al-Anbiyāʾ
- #74Sūrah Al-Muʾminūn
- #75Sūrah As-Sajdah
- #76Sūrah Aṭ-Ṭūr
- #77Sūrah Al-Mulk
- #78Sūrah Al-Ḥāqqah
- #79Sūrah Al-Maʿārij
- #80Sūrah An-Nabaʾ
- #81Sūrah An-Nāziʿāt
- #82Sūrah Al-Infiṭār
- #83Sūrah Al-Inshiqāq
- #84Sūrah Ar-Rūm
- #85Sūrah Al-ʿAnkabūt
- #86Sūrah Al-Muṭaffifīn
Chapter 05 · 623–627
The Hijrah — migration to Madinah
His life
- The Hijrah and the cave of Thawr
- Qubāʾ and the mosque of the Prophet ﷺ
- The first Friday prayer
- Brotherhood and the Constitution of Madinah
What came down
19 surahs placed in this chapter.
- #87Sūrah Al-Baqarah
- #88Sūrah Al-Anfāl
- #89Sūrah Āl ʿImrān
- #90Sūrah Al-Aḥzāb
- #91Sūrah Al-Mumtaḥanah
- #92Sūrah An-Nisāʾ
- #93Sūrah Az-Zalzalah
- #94Sūrah Al-Ḥadīd
- #95Sūrah Muḥammad
- #96Sūrah Ar-Raʿd
- #97Sūrah Ar-Raḥmān
- #98Sūrah Al-Insān
- #99Sūrah Aṭ-Ṭalāq
- #100Sūrah Al-Bayyinah
- #101Sūrah Al-Ḥashr
- #102Sūrah An-Nūr
- #103Sūrah Al-Ḥajj
- #104Sūrah Al-Munāfiqūn
- #105Sūrah Al-Mujādilah
Chapter 06 · 628–633
Conquest, completion and farewell
His life
- The Treaty of Ḥudaybiyah
- Letters to the kings
- Khaybar and the return of the Abyssinian migrants
- ʿUmrat al-Qaḍāʾ — the compensatory ʿumrah
What came down
9 surahs placed in this chapter.
- #106Sūrah Al-Ḥujurāt
- #107Sūrah At-Taḥrīm
- #108Sūrah At-Taghābun
- #109Sūrah Aṣ-Ṣaff
- #110Sūrah Al-Jumuʿah
- #111Sūrah Al-Fatḥ
- #112Sūrah Al-Māʾidah
- #113Sūrah At-Tawbah
- #114Sūrah An-Naṣr