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Muhammad
محمد ar
Arabian political leader and the founder of Islam (c. 570–632)
- Child of Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Muttalib and Aminah
- Married to Khadija bint Khuwaylid, Sawda bint Zamʿa, Aisha and 10 more
- Dated 20 April 571 CE – 8 June 632 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- 622 CE – 632 CE head of state jurisdiction: first Islamic state
Family
The family of Muhammad
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 27
Family 27
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Muttalib father of Muhammad (c. 546–566) -
child of (child) Aminah Mother of Muhammad -
of the house Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh tribe and clan of Muhammad -
parent of (father) Abd-Allah ibn Muhammad one of the sons Muhammad and Khadija -
parent of (father) Fatima daughter of Muhammad (c. 605–632) -
parent of (father) Ibrahim ibn Muhammad Youngest son of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (630–632) -
parent of (father) Qasim ibn Muhammad son of Muhammad and Khadijah bint Khuwaylid -
parent of (father) Ruqayya bint Muhammad daughter of Muhammad -
parent of (father) Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad -
parent of (father) Zainab bint Muhammad Eldest daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad - partner of Al-Jariya Concubine of Muhammad
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partner of Maria al-Qibtiyya One of Muhammad's concubines - partner of Tukana al-Quraziya Concubine of Muhammad
- sibling of sibling of: recorded as none
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married to Khadija bint Khuwaylid First wife of Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ, First believer in Islam and Prophet Muhammad’s most beloved wife -
married to Zaynab bint Khuzayma Muhammad's fifth wife (c. 596–625) -
married to Maymunah bint al-Harith Muhammad's eleventh wife (c. 594–671) -
married to Sawda bint Zamʿa second wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad -
married to Ramla bint Abi Sufyan Muhammad's ninth wife (c. 589/594 – 664) -
married to Umm Salama Muhammad's sixth wife (c. 596 – 667/683) -
married to Aisha Muhammad's third wife (c. 613/614 – 678) -
married to Hafsa bint Umar ibn Al-Khattab The fourth wife of Islamic prophet Muhammad (c.605–665) -
married to Juwayriyya bint al-Harith Muhammad's eighth wife (c. 608–676) -
married to Zaynab bint Jahsh cousin and seventh wife of Muhammad (c. 590–641)
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Muhammad Arabian political leader and the founder of Islam (c. 570–632) 
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
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Connections
How Muhammad connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 3
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Identification 4
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- identified with Muhammad and the Bible arguments that prophecies of Muhammad exist in the Bible
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identified with Muhammad in Islam Muslims consider him a master, legislator and the last prophet of the prophets in Islam - identified with Muhammad in the Bahá'í Faith
- identified with Muhammad in the Quran mentions of Muhammad in the Quran
Documented influence 2
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Recorded events and days 1
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
41 statements on this record
- 41 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 13 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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