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A study companion for the Seerah of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, drawn from Sheikh Yasir Qadhi’s lecture series and the classical sources it cites.

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17 curated storylines across 422 events — follow a story from beginning to end, or browse the full chronology

Each path is ordered by reading the sources, not by dates, and every chapter says why it sits where it does.

1The Life of the Prophet ﷺThe whole life in twelve chapters, from his birth in Makkah to his passing in Madinah. A first path through the Seerah: each chapter is a landmark event, and every one of them opens onto the fuller storyline it belongs to.12 chapters 2The First RevelationFrom the cave of Hira to the first public call: the months of true dreams, the angel's command to read, Khadija and Waraqa, the pause and the command to rise and warn, the first believers one by one, and the house of al-Arqam.9 chapters 3From Abyssinia to the BoycottThe middle years in Makkah: the first flight to the Najashi, the prostration at Surah al-Najm and the false rumour that brought the emigrants home, the second emigration and the Quraysh's failed embassy, the conversions of Hamzah and Umar within three days of each other, and the boycott the Quraysh answered them with.8 chapters 4The Year of Sorrow to the Night JourneyThe tenth year of the dawah took Abu Talib and Khadija RA within weeks of each other, then Abu Lahab's protection, then Ta'if. Read the lowest point of the Makkan years through to the ease that followed it: the Night Journey, and the morning the Quraysh heard of it.9 chapters 5The First Year in MadinahFrom the camel kneeling at Quba to the roofing of the Suffa: the first mosque, the first Friday, the Prophet ﷺ's mosque and houses, the brotherhood of Muhajirun and Ansar, the Constitution, the adhan, the fever and the prayer that Madinah be loved, and the qibla turning to Makkah.12 chapters 6The Road to BadrFrom the first permission to fight, through the caravan raids and Nakhla, to the plain of Badr and the weeks after it: the executions on the road home, the ransoms, Abu Lahab's end, and the expulsion of the Banu Qaynuqa. Positions follow Sheikh Yasir Qadhi's dating cues; the ones he leaves open are marked approximate.16 chapters 7The Year of UhudFrom the killing of Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf to the expulsion of the Banu Nadir: the year the Quraysh came for revenge, the mountain where the archers left their post, and the massacres and betrayals that followed through 4 AH.13 chapters 8The Return from al-Muraysi'One expedition and the long road home: the Banu al-Mustaliq, a quarrel at a well, Surah al-Munafiqun, and the slander of Aisha RA.7 chapters 9The Year of the TrenchFrom the expulsion of the Banu al-Nadir to the death of Sa'd ibn Mu'adh RA: the confederacy against Madinah, the trench, the treachery of the Banu Qurayza and its judgment.9 chapters 10The Road to HudaybiyyahThe months between the Trench and the treaty: small expeditions, a chieftain captured by accident, and the march of 1,400 unarmed pilgrims toward Makkah.13 chapters 11The Fall of KhaybarFrom the treaty at Hudaybiyyah to the tenants of Khaybar: the last Jewish stronghold in central Arabia, the poisoned lamb, and the day Ja'far RA came home.11 chapters 12The Letters to the KingsIn the truce after Hudaybiyyah the Prophet ﷺ wrote to the rulers of the world. Read the letters to the Najashi, Heraclius, Khosrow and the Muqawqis, and the emperor's answer two years later: an envoy at Tabuk with three signs to check, and a question put to the senators of Rome.6 chapters 13The Army of CommandersA murdered envoy, three thousand men marching north, three commanders killed in turn, and the newest Muslim in the army bringing it home.4 chapters 14The Conquest of MakkahThe Banu Bakr break the treaty at al-Watir, and eight weeks later ten thousand Muslims light their fires at Marr al-Zahran. Read the conquest through to Hunayn, the siege of Ta'if and the division of the spoils at Ji'ranah.17 chapters 15The Expedition of TabukThe last campaign: a summer march against Rome that met no enemy, the twenty days at the spring, the hypocrites on the road home, the mosque pulled down, and the year of delegations that followed, ending with Abu Bakr's Hajj and the verse of the sword.15 chapters 16The Year of DelegationsIn the ninth year Arabia came to Madinah: Adi ibn Hatim, the Bedouin Dimam, the chiefs of Thaqif with their conditions, Musaylimah with his demand, the bishops of Najran with their question about Isa, and the tribes of the east and Yemen. The lectures give few dates within the year, so most positions follow their order of telling and are marked approximate.15 chapters 17The Final YearFrom the death of Ibrahim to the Farewell Hajj, Ghadir Khumm, Usama's army, the last visit to Baqi' and the Monday in Rabi' al-Awwal when the Prophet ﷺ died.15 chapters