The Year of Sorrow

E-snad · Sîra
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Abû Tâlib's last word, the verses that answered, and what two losses changed.

Episodes

  1. Episode 1 · free

    The uncle who stood in front of him

    In a single year, the Prophet ﷺ lost his wife and his uncle. Her story has its own book. This one begins with the uncle. Who was Abû Tâlib to him, and what did his death change?

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  2. Episode 2

    You do not guide whom you love

    At his bedside were his nephew and two men of Quraysh. The Prophet ﷺ asked him for one sentence. He asked until the end. What did his uncle answer, and what did Allah reveal?

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  3. Episode 3

    The same year, and what changed

    Two deaths in the same year, three years before the Hijra. Who gave that year its name? And what changed for the Prophet ﷺ once his two supports were gone?

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