MUHAMMAD

Prophet Muhammad was born about 570 CE in Mecca. His father, whose name was hazrat Abdullah, died a month before prophet Muhammad's birth. His mother, Amina, died when he was three years old, and his foster mother, a Bedouin woman, died when he was six. So, his grandfather, Abd al-Muttalib, took care of him for two years. After his grandfather's death, his uncle Abu Talib took care of him, and was a support to him for many years of his adult life.

In 610 CE, when Muhammad was forty years old, he went for a walk to the mountain of Hira near Mecca. According to Muslims, the angelJibrail (Gabriel) spoke with him in the cave of the mountain. The story says that when Muhammad first saw the angel Gabriel, he fainted, because Gabriel was so large.