The Year of the Elephant and the Prophet's birth
عام الفيل ومولد النبي
c. April 571 CE
The traditional year of the Prophet Muhammad's birth in Mecca — Monday 9 Rabi' I of the Year of the Elephant, given in the book as 20 or 22 April 571 CE.
Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Connections
- Had participant
- Abd al-Muttalib ibn HashimAbrahaThuwaybaMuhammadHalima al-Sa'diyya
- Caused by
- The Second Abyssinian Occupation of Yemen
- Occurred at
- Mecca
- Part of
- The Prophetic Era
People and things also explored
MeccaThe three years of the secret callThe Battle of HunaynThe Pledge of the Tree (Bay'at al-Ridwan)The boycott of the Banu HashimThe Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)The call to the nearest kinThe death of Amina at al-Abwa
Sources
- Ibn Ishaq / Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad (1955)
- Watt, Muhammad at Mecca (1953)
- Lings, Muhammad (1983)
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
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islam.museum contributors. “The Year of the Elephant and the Prophet's birth”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/year-of-the-elephant-and-birth/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.