Islamic Studies — Chapter 4

Seerat — the Makki Period: Birth, Revelation, Persecution, Mi’raj and Hijrat

Why this chapter matters: the Makki period is the Seerah half that papers mine most — the birth, the first revelation, the first Muslims, the two migrations and the Mi’raj are all “one question guaranteed” territory. The banks hold 42 questions matching this topic exactly, and the first-revelation pocket alone (13 questions: Hira, Iqra, the five verses, 610 AD) is the densest single cluster in the chapter. Learn the year-ladder — 570 → 595 → 605 → 610 → 613 → 615 → 619 → 620 → 622 — and nearly every question in the chapter answers itself.

1. Birth and childhood — 570 AD, the Year of the Elephant

• Born in Makkah in 570 AD, on a Monday, in the Year of the Elephant (Aam al-Feel) — the year Abraha, the ruler of Yemen, marched on the Ka’ba with his elephant army and was destroyed by the Ababil birds, each carrying three pebbles. The lecture locks 570 as the PPSC-correct year (see Traps for the 571 variant).
• Lineage: his father was Abdullah, who died in Madinah (then Yathrib) at 25 years of age while his mother Amina was six months pregnant; his grandfather was Abdul Muttalib (real name Shayba — called Abdul Muttalib because people took him for Muttalib’s slave when Muttalib brought him to Makkah). Abdul Muttalib was the son of Hashim, who held the offices of Rifada and Siqaya (feeding and watering the pilgrims), the keys of the Ka’ba, the banner and Dar al-Nadwa. The chain runs: Abdullah → Abdul Muttalib → Hashim → Abd Manaf → Qusayy → Kilab → Murrah → Ka’b → Lu’ayy → Ghalib → Fihr (whose title was Quraysh) → Malik → Nadr → Kinana → Khuzayma → Ilyas → Adnan → Qaydar → Ismail → Ibrahim.
• The blood-money (Diyat) story: Abdul Muttalib had vowed that if he had ten sons he would sacrifice one; the lot fell on Abdullah, and the sacrifice was redeemed by raising the camels from 10 to 100 — so Diyat = 100 camels.
• Fosterage: Makkan children were sent to the desert for pure Arabic and to escape Makkah’s harsh climate and diseases. His foster mother was Halima Sadia of Banu Sa’d (Banu Hawazin) — she arrived late, found every other child taken, and took the orphan child; her sick camel recovered. The two-year contract stretched to four years. His foster brother was Abdullah and his foster sister was Shayma bint Harith.
• Shaq-e-Sadr (the opening of the chest): at four years of age, Jibrail opened his chest, removed his heart, took out the portion of Satan, washed it in a basin (tasht) and replaced it. A cloud shaded him as a child.
• Mother’s death: Amina took him to Madinah to visit Abdullah’s grave, accompanied by the maidservant Umm Ayman; on the return journey she fell ill and died at Abwa (between Makkah and Madinah), where she is buried.
• Guardianship: Abdul Muttalib raised him until age 8; then his uncle Abu Talib took him in. His first journey to Syria came at age 12 with Abu Talib, when the monk Bahira — a scholar of the Torah and Gospel — recognised the signs of prophethood in him and warned Abu Talib that others might harm him, so Abu Talib turned back halfway.
• The wider household (OPC fold-in, pp. 1–3): his foster father was Harith ibn Abd al-Uzza, husband of Halima; his mother Amina was of Banu Zuhra, daughter of Wahb ibn Abd Manaf. Amina nursed him for three days before Thuwayba (Section 5) and then Halima. The midwife at his birth was al-Shifa, mother of Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf. Of his paternal uncles, only Hamza and Abbas embraced Islam.

2. Youth, marriage and the Black Stone

• Harb al-Fijar and Hilf al-Fudul (OPC fold-in, pp. 3–4): at about 15 he was present at the Harb al-Fijar — the “Sacrilegious War” fought in the sacred months between Quraysh (with Kinana) and Hawazin — handing arrows to his uncles rather than fighting. After the war came Hilf al-Fudul (the Pact of the Virtuous), agreed at the house of Abdullah ibn Jud’an: the Quraysh chiefs pledged to stand together for any wronged person, Makkan or stranger, until his rights were restored. The Prophet later said he would not exchange that pact for red camels.
• Second journey to Syria: at age 25 he travelled with Khadija’s trade goods, accompanied by her servant Maysara, whose praise of him led Khadija to send a marriage proposal through her friend Nafisa.
• Marriage to Khadija: at 25, to Khadija bint Khuwaylid, then 40 years old, twice previously married, the wealthy and respected lady of Quraysh. She was the first person to accept Islam (Section 3).
• The Black Stone (Hajar-e-Aswad) at 35: after a theft of the Ka’ba’s valuables, Quraysh rebuilt it higher — and quarrelled over who would set the Black Stone in place. The decision: whoever entered the Haram first next morning would judge. He was the first to enter; his solution was that all the chiefs lift the stone together on a sheet (chadar), and he placed it himself.

3. The first revelation and the early preaching

• Seclusion: for three years before prophethood he retreated for worship — most famously to the Cave of Hira on Jabal al-Noor (the Mountain of Light). Keep the two caves distinct (see Traps): Hira = the revelation cave; Thawr = the Hijrat cave.
• The first revelation — 610 AD, age 40: Jibrail brought the command to read, repeated three times, holding him firmly each time. The first five verses revealed were “Iqra bismi Rabbik alladhi khalaq” (Surah Al-Alaq); the second revelation was “Ya ayyuhal Muddathir” (Surah Al-Muddathir). The bank asks: how many verses in the first revelation → 5; in which year → 610 AD; in which cave → Hira; on which mountain → Jabal al-Noor.
• Two kinds of revelation: Wahi Matlu = the Quran (recited revelation); Wahi Ghair Matlu = the Hadith (unrecited revelation).
• Fatrat al-Wahi: after the first revelation, six months passed before the next revelation came.
• The first Muslims: the first woman and first person overall = Khadija; the first man = Abu Bakr Siddiq; the first child = Ali; the first slave = Zaid bin Harithah — the freed slave whom Khadija had gifted to the Prophet at their marriage and who became his adopted son (see Traps for the Bilal wording). Waraqa bin Nawfal — the old scholar who confirmed the revelation — was a follower of the religion of Ibrahim (AS).
• Secret, then open preaching: the first three years of preaching were secret; in the 3rd Nabvi year came the open call (the verses of Surah Al-Shu’ara commanding him to warn his nearest kin). From this point the Quraysh’s opposition turned to open persecution.
• The open call’s cry (OPC pp. 41–44): “Ya Sabahah!” — the morning alarm call, drawing attention to danger — was the Prophet’s cry from Mount Safa when he summoned Quraysh to the open warning.
• The splitting of the Moon (OPC pp. 41–44): the Makki miracle in which the Moon was split as a sign — the books place it at Mina.
• Uzza (OPC pp. 41–44): al-Uzza was a goddess of the Quraysh, one of the idols of pre-Islamic Makkah (her breaking at the Conquest is Chapter 5, Section 6).

4. Persecution and the migration to Abyssinia — 5th Nabvi year

• The persecuted: Bilal Habshi — owned by Umayya bin Khalaf, bought and freed by Abu Bakr; Mus’ab bin Umayr; Ammar bin Yasir; and Sumayya — the first martyr (first Shahidah) of Islam.
• The first migration (Hijrat) to Abyssinia, 5th Nabvi year: the Prophet directed the persecuted Muslims to Abyssinia because its king would not tolerate injustice. The first group numbered 12 men + 4 women = 16, led by Uthman bin Maz’un (the group included Uthman bin Affan and his wife Ruqayyah, the Prophet’s daughter). The second, larger group numbered 83 men + 19 women = 102, led by Ja’far Tayyar. (Reference counts vary slightly — see Traps.)
• Before Najashi: the king of Abyssinia was Najashi, whose real name was Ashama. Ja’far recited Surah Maryam before him in court — Najashi wept until his beard was wet — and refused to hand the exiles over, using the straw (tinka) comparison: he would not give them up for a straw. The bank asks: who recited before Najashi → Ja’far; what was Najashi’s religion → Christian; Abyssinia is the old name of → Ethiopia.
• Conversions that changed the balance — 6th Nabvi year: the Prophet prayed that Islam be strengthened through Umar bin Khattab or Umar bin Hisham (Abu Jahl). Umar’s sister Fatima and her husband Saeed were already Muslims; Khabbab was reciting Surah Taha to them when Umar arrived, was moved by it, and accepted Islam. Hamza accepted Islam the same year. Umar earned the title Farooq — before him Muslims prayed in secret; after him, openly.

5. The boycott, the Year of Sorrow and Taif — 7th to 10th Nabvi year

• The boycott — 7th Nabvi year: Quraysh boycotted Banu Hashim — Muslims and non-Muslims alike — confining them to the valley of Shi’b Abi Talib. The boycott document (Sahifa) was hung on the Ka’ba, forbidding all trade, marriage and contact. It hung for three years until termites ate it, and the boycott ended in the 10th Nabvi year.
• The Year of Sorrow (Aam al-Huzn) — 10th Nabvi year: Abu Talib died (the lecture gives his age as 80), and three days later Khadija died — the two shields of the Prophet gone in one year. After Khadija’s death, his first marriage was to Sawda (the bank’s answer to “the first marriage after Khadija’s death”).
• Taif: he went to Taif, south of Makkah, seeking support; instead, street boys were set on him and he was stoned until he bled. Jibrail came with the Angel of the Mountains, offering to crush the town between two mountains — he refused: he had been sent as a mercy to the worlds (“Wa ma arsalnaka illa rahmatan lil-‘alamin”). On the return journey a company of jinn accepted Islam (Surah Al-Jinn), and on re-entering Makkah he was given protection by Mut’im bin Adi. (OPC fold-in, p. 4: he was accompanied to Taif by Zaid bin Harithah and stayed ten days among the Thaqif.)
• Abu Lahab, the uncle who opposed him: his slave-girl Thuwayba had nursed both the Prophet and Hamza, making Hamza his foster brother. Abu Lahab’s wife Umm Jamil — Hammalatal Hatab (the carrier of firewood) — scattered thorns in his path. When his son Qasim died, Abu Lahab rejoiced that he was Abtar (cut off) — and Surah Tabbat Yada Abi Lahab was revealed.

6. Mi’raj — 10th Nabvi year, 27 Rajab

• Isra and Mi’raj: Isra = the night journey from Makkah to Bait al-Maqdis (Jerusalem); Mi’raj = the ascent through the heavens. It began from the house of Umm Hani (the sister of Ali), on the mount Buraq — swift as lightning.
• At Bait al-Maqdis he led all the prophets in prayer. Then the ascent, heaven by heaven: 1st = Adam; 2nd = Isa + Yahya; 3rd = Yusuf; 4th = Idris; 5th = Harun; 6th = Musa; 7th = Ibrahim.
• Bait al-Ma’mur stands in the 7th heaven — the heavenly counterpart of the Ka’ba — where 70,000 angels perform Tawaf daily, and no angel’s turn ever comes twice.
• Sidrat al-Muntaha: at the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary, Jibrail said he could go no further.
• The gift of Salah: first 50 prayers were prescribed; on Musa’s advice he returned nine times until they were reduced to 5 — the five daily prayers (Chapter 3, Section 6). The bank asks: on which date did Mi’raj occur → 27 Rajab; in which Nabvi year → 10th Nabvi year; Sidrat al-Muntaha means → the tree of light (Noor) in the bank’s wording.

7. The Pledges of Aqaba and the Hijrat — 11th to 13th Nabvi year

• First contact — 11th Nabvi year: six men of Khazraj from Yathrib met him during Hajj and accepted Islam; they carried the message home.
• First Pledge of Aqaba — 12th Nabvi year (621 CE): 12 men from Aws and Khazraj pledged allegiance — to worship Allah alone and abstain from theft, adultery, killing children, slander and disobedience. Because fighting was not mentioned, it is also called the Pledge of Women (Bay’at al-Nisa). He sent Mus’ab bin Umayr back with them to teach Islam in Yathrib.
• Second Pledge of Aqaba — 13th Nabvi year (622 CE): 73 men + 2 women = 75 people met him secretly at night at Aqaba (a mountain pass near Mina) and pledged to listen and obey, to spend in plenty and scarcity, to enjoin good and forbid evil, and to defend him as they defended their own families. The lecture’s figure is “70–75 people” — the standard breakdown is 73 men and 2 women.
• The Hijrat — 13th Nabvi year = 1 Hijri (622 CE): Ali slept in his bed and was told to return the trusts (amanat) afterwards. Quraysh chiefs — Abu Jahl leading, one chief from each tribe — waited at his door; he threw dust and passed out unseen.
• Cave of Thawr: he and Abu Bakr stayed three days; Asma bint Abi Bakr brought food — Abu Jahl slapped her — and she tied the food with her waistband torn in two pieces, earning the title Dhat al-Nitaqayn (the one with two waistbands). A spider wove its web across the cave mouth. Their guide was Abdullah bin Urayqit — trusted, and not yet a Muslim at the time.
• Suraqa bin Ju’sham pursued them for the reward of 100 camels each; his horse’s legs sank into the ground, and he was promised the bracelets of Kisra and Qaysar (the Persian and Roman emperors).
• Arrival: he stayed first at Quba, where the first Friday prayer was held among Banu Salim; then he settled in the quarter of Banu Najjar (his maternal relatives). His camel was Qaswa, taken from Abu Bakr (paid for afterwards). The Makki period closes here: 53 years in Makkah, 10 in Madinah (the Madani story is the next chapter).
• First Muhajir (OPC fold-in, p. 5): Abu Salamah had already migrated to Madinah before the Prophet — the first of the Muhajirin to arrive.

8. Master timeline — the Makki period on one page

9. Rapid-fire one-liners

• Born 570 AD, Monday, Year of the Elephant; Abraha of Yemen, Ababil birds, 3 pebbles each.
• Father Abdullah (died age 25, Madinah); mother Amina (died Abwa); grandfather Abdul Muttalib (real name Shayba, son of Hashim).
• Diyat = 100 camels; foster mother Halima Sadia (Banu Sa’d); foster sister Shayma; Shaq-e-Sadr at age 4.
• First Syria journey age 12 (Bahira); marriage age 25 to Khadija (40) via Maysara/Nafisa; Black Stone age 35, sheet (chadar).
• First revelation 610 AD, age 40, Cave Hira, Jabal al-Noor; first 5 verses Al-Alaq; second revelation Al-Muddathir; Fatrat 6 months.
• Wahi Matlu = Quran; Wahi Ghair Matlu = Hadith.
• First Muslims: Khadija (woman), Abu Bakr (man), Ali (child), Zaid bin Harithah (slave); Waraqa bin Nawfal confirmed the revelation.
• Secret preaching 3 years; open preaching 3 Nabvi (Surah Al-Shu’ara).
• Persecution: Bilal (Umayya bin Khalaf), Sumayya = first martyr; Abyssinia 12+4 = 16, then 83+19 = 102; king Najashi = Ashama; Ja’far recited Surah Maryam.
• Umar + Hamza 6 Nabvi; Umar = Farooq; conversion via sister Fatima, Saeed, Khabbab, Surah Taha; Umar accepted 616 CE.
• Boycott 7 Nabvi, Shi’b Abi Talib, 3 years, document eaten by termites, ended 10 Nabvi.
• Year of Sorrow 10 Nabvi: Abu Talib, then Khadija; Taif stoned, Angel of the Mountains refused, Surah Al-Jinn, protection of Mut’im bin Adi.
• Mi’raj 10 Nabvi, 27 Rajab, Umm Hani’s house, Buraq; heavens Adam, Isa+Yahya, Yusuf, Idris, Harun, Musa, Ibrahim; Bait al-Ma’mur (7th heaven, 70,000 angels); Sidrat al-Muntaha; 50 → 5 prayers, nine returns.
• Aqaba: 6 Khazraj men (11 Nabvi); first pledge 12 men (12 Nabvi, Bay’at al-Nisa, Mus’ab sent); second pledge 73 men + 2 women (13 Nabvi).
• Hijrat 13 Nabvi = 1 Hijri, 622 CE; Ali on the bed; Thawr 3 days; Asma = Dhat al-Nitaqayn; guide Abdullah bin Urayqit; Suraqa, 100 camels, Kisra/Qaysar bracelets; camel Qaswa; first stay Quba.
• OPC fold-in (pp. 1–5): foster father Harith ibn Abd al-Uzza; Amina of Banu Zuhra, daughter of Wahb ibn Abd Manaf; nursed 3 days by Amina; midwife al-Shifa (mother of Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf); only uncles embracing Islam Hamza + Abbas; Harb al-Fijar ~15 (Quraysh vs Hawazin, arrows to uncles) → Hilf al-Fudul (Ibn Jud’an’s house, for the wronged); Taif with Zaid, 10 days, Thaqif; first Muhajir Abu Salamah.

10. Most-asked facts (from our verified past-paper banks)

• First revelation — 13 questions, the densest pocket: the cave (Hira), the mountain (Jabal al-Noor / An-Noor), the verse count (5), the year (610 AD) and Waraqa’s identity. If you learn one section perfectly, make it this one.
• Persecution, Abyssinia and Mi’raj — 13 questions: Mi’raj’s date (27 Rajab) asked three times and its Nabvi year (10th) once; Sumayya as first martyr; Ja’far before Najashi; Najashi’s religion (Christian); Abyssinia = Ethiopia; Umar’s acceptance year (616 CE); Sidrat al-Muntaha.
• Aqaba and Hijrat — 10 questions: the guide (Abdullah bin Urayqit, asked four times — the single most repeated name in the topic); the Hijrat year (622 AD, twice); the companion on the journey (Abu Bakr, twice); the refuge (Cave Thawr); the destination (Madinah).
• Birth and early life — 6 questions: Khadija’s marriage age (25), the foster mother (Halima) and foster sister (Shayma), Abraha’s kingdom (Yemen), and the birth year — where the bank itself splits (see Traps).

11. Traps & confusions

• 570 vs 571: the lecture locks 570 AD as the PPSC-correct birth year, and the chapter follows it — but one bank paper answers “Prophet (SAW) was born in 571 AD.” If both years appear as options, answer 570; 571 is the variant the bank paper prints, not the taught standard. The OPC one-liners print the same variant (571 AD, 22 April); no day-date for the birth is taught in this chapter.
• Abu Jahl’s name: the OPC one-liners print “Umar bin Hisham”; the Arabic is Amr ibn Hisham, whose pre-Islamic title was Abu al-Hakam (“Father of Wisdom”) — Abu Jahl (“Father of Ignorance”) is the title Islam gave him. The “two Umars” prayer in Chapter 7 is the same pairing (Amr ibn Hisham or Umar ibn al-Khattab).
• Halima’s kunya — held, not taught: the OPC one-liners print Halima’s surname as “Umm-e-Kabtah”; that reading is unverified against the standard seerah notes and is not taught here.
• Hira vs Thawr: Hira = revelation (610 AD, Jabal al-Noor); Thawr = Hijrat (3 days’ hiding, spider’s web, Asma’s food). Papers test the pair by swapping the caves — the lecture’s own MCQ warning is exactly this distinction.
• Zaid vs Bilal — “first slave”: the wording decides it. Zaid bin Harithah is the lecture standard: the slave freed at the start of prophethood and adopted as a son — the bank’s own question “first slave who was freed at the time of Prophethood and accepted Islam” answers Zaid. But another bank paper answers “first slave who embraced Islam” with Bilal (who embraced Islam while still enslaved by Umayya bin Khalaf). Read the question: “freed” → Zaid; “embraced while a slave” → Bilal.
• First Muslim vs first man/woman/child/slave: four different questions, four answers — Khadija (first person, first woman), Abu Bakr (first man), Ali (first child), Zaid (first slave). Never answer “Khadija” to “first man” or “Abu Bakr” to “first person.”
• Two migrations, two destinations: Abyssinia (5 Nabvi) is the migration of the persecuted followers; Madinah (13 Nabvi = 1 Hijri) is the Prophet’s Hijrat. “First migration of the companions” answers Ethiopia (Habsha); “City of Hijrat” answers Madinah.
• Abyssinia numbers vary by source: the lecture teaches 12 men + 4 women = 16 and 83 men + 19 women = 102. Many standard references count the first group as 11 men + 4 women = 15 and the second as 83 men + 18 women = 101. The chapter keeps the lecture figures; if a paper offers 15 or 101, those are the same groups counted differently, not different events.
• Aqaba numbers: first pledge 12 men; second pledge 73 men + 2 women = 75 — inside the lecture’s “70–75 people” range. A question asking “how many at the second pledge” answers 75 (or 73 men, if it asks men only).
• Mi’raj year vs Hijrat year: Mi’raj = 10 Nabvi; Hijrat = 13 Nabvi. Both are “before Hijrat” events, but three Nabvi years apart — the Year of Sorrow and Mi’raj share 10 Nabvi; Aqaba and Hijrat share 13 Nabvi.
• Umar’s conversion year: the bank answers 616 CE — that is 6 Nabvi (610 + 6), the same year as Hamza’s acceptance. Do not confuse it with the Hijrat (622).
• Abu Talib’s death vs Khadija’s death: both in 10 Nabvi, the Year of Sorrow — Abu Talib first, Khadija days later. “Year of Sorrow” as an answer is 10 Nabvi, not a calendar year.
• Najashi’s name vs title: Najashi is the title (the Negus, king of Abyssinia); his personal name is Ashama. A question asking “real name of Najashi” answers Ashama.
• First mosque is NOT this chapter: Quba is where the Prophet stayed on arrival, but the first mosque (Masjid Quba) and the Prophet’s Mosque belong to the Madani chapter — this chapter ends at arrival, deliberately, so the two chapters do not double-teach it.

12. Memory tricks (lectures first, then clean professional hooks)

• The year-ladder — 570–595–605–610–613–615–619–620–622: birth (570), marriage (595 = 570+25), Black Stone (605 = 570+35), revelation (610 = 570+40), open preaching (613), Abyssinia (615), Year of Sorrow (619), first Yathrib contact (620), Aqaba II + Hijrat (622). Every date is the birth year plus the age, or the Nabvi year plus 610 — one ladder, nine rungs.
• First Muslims — K-A-A-Z: Khadija (woman), Abu Bakr (man), Ali (child), Zaid (slave). Four initials, four firsts, in the order the questions ask them.
• Hira vs Thawr — “H for Heaven’s message, T for Travelling”: Hira is where the message came down from Heaven; Thawr is where the travellers hid on the road. The first letters match the function.
• Abyssinia — 16 then 102: the first group fits in a room (16), the second fills a hall (102) — and both end in the lecturer’s pair: 12+4 and 83+19. Remember “sixteen, then a hundred and two” and the split follows.
• Mi’raj heavens — Adam opens, Ibrahim closes: the first heaven holds the first man (Adam), the seventh the father of nations (Ibrahim); between them, Isa+Yahya share the second — the only shared heaven, the only pair of cousins in the list.
• 50 → 5: nine returns, each one shaving the number down — the gift was fifty, the mercy left five, and the reward stayed fifty. “Fifty promised, five prescribed, fifty rewarded.”
• Fijar vs Fudul — “war, then pact”: Fijar = the fighting in the sacred months (Quraysh vs Hawazin, age ~15); Fudul = the pact that followed it, for the wronged. War first, pact second — the order is the answer.

13. Visuals (site build specs)

• TIMELINE — The Makki year-ladder: a horizontal band 570 → 622 with the nine rungs of Section 8 (birth, marriage, Black Stone, revelation, open preaching, Abyssinia, Year of Sorrow, Aqaba, Hijrat), each rung carrying its one-line fact — placed before Section 8 as the chapter’s orientation graphic.
• MAP — Two migrations: Arabia–Red Sea map with two arrows: Makkah → Abyssinia (west, across the sea, 5 Nabvi) and Makkah → Yathrib/Madinah (north, 13 Nabvi), with Taif marked south of Makkah and the Cave of Thawr on the Madinah road — placed in Sections 4 and 7.
• DIAGRAM — The Mi’raj ascent: seven stacked heavens with their prophets (Adam; Isa+Yahya; Yusuf; Idris; Harun; Musa; Ibrahim), Bait al-Ma’mur on the seventh, Sidrat al-Muntaha above, and the 50 → 5 prayer reduction as a side arrow — placed in Section 6.
• INFOGRAPHIC — The first Muslims and the firsts: four cards (Khadija / Abu Bakr / Ali / Zaid) plus the first-martyr card (Sumayya) and the first-migration card (Abyssinia 16 → 102) — placed in Sections 3–4 as the chapter’s most-revised graphic.

14. Practice this topic

• Practice set: 42 verified past-paper questions in the PPSC + FPSC banks are tagged to this topic’s sub-topics (birth & early life 6, first revelation & preaching 13, persecution/Abyssinia/boycott/Year of Sorrow/Taif/Mi’raj 13, Aqaba & Hijrat 10) — the site serves them as this chapter’s practice set, with the IBES Islamic Studies capsule Seerah questions behind them. Note for the build: the practice set is filtered by the topic’s subject+topic tags at serve time, so the post-Hijrat mosque question and the UNGA “first Muslim woman” question that share keywords are excluded.
• Book mode: ← Previous: Articles of Faith & Pillars · Next: Seerat — Madani Period →

Goldmine Notes · Islamic Studies · Chapter 4 · Sources: Islamiat Lecture 3 (Jesus to 10th Nabvi — birth, fosterage, marriage, Black Stone, revelation, Abyssinia, boycott, Year of Sorrow, Taif, Mi’raj, Hijrat) and Islamiat Lecture 4 (12th Nabvi to 2nd Hijrah — Aqaba pledges, Hijrat details); verified PPSC/FPSC past-paper banks (42 topic questions, script-counted); Aqaba breakdown (12; 73 men + 2 women) and Abyssinia variant counts (11+4 / 83+18) checked against standard references (2026-10-29). OPC fold-in 2026-11-02 (Islamiat pp. 1–5, RapidOCR hidden_files/final-notes-intake/work/is-opc-pp1-10.txt; bank-evidence script hidden_files/goldmine-notes-count-is-opc-pp1-10.py over 608 files / 58,098 questions — Harb al-Fijar 1 genuine stem (FPSC 2006), rest of the new rows zero genuine stems, so no 🔁/⭐/🆕 mark claimed; bankCount 42 unchanged): foster household, Harb al-Fijar / Hilf al-Fudul, Taif with Zaid, first Muhajir Abu Salamah; standard-reference web checks for Fijar (age 14–15, arrows to uncles) and Fudul (Ibn Jud’an’s house, for the wronged). Standard answers only.