Seerah - The Life of the Prophet (pbuh)

epidemic had broken out in Makkah. She requested to take
Mu#ammad r back with her. The Prophet’s mother ¬minah agreed
and Muhammad r returned to the tribe of Sa`d.
The Prophet r stayed with *al|mah and her family until the age of four
or five. It was during this period that an amazing incident occurred, as
reported by the %a#\b| Anas t in (the compilation of Im\m) Muslim.
One day, as Mu#ammad r was playing with his friends, Jibr|l u
approached him and took hold of him. He then opened up his chest
and took out his heart. He extracted a blood-clot out of it and said,
“That was the part of Satan in you.” He then washed the heart with the
water of Zamzam and restored it to its place. The playmates of
Mu#ammad r came running to *al|mah screaming, “Mu#ammad has
been killed!” They rushed to where the Prophet r was and found him.
There was no sign of any harm except that his face had gone pale.
After narrating this incident, Anas t said, “I have seen the mark that
was left on his chest.”
After this incident, *al|mah became worried about the safety of
Mu#ammad r and returned him to his mother with whom he stayed
until her death.
Death of ¬minah
When Mu#ammad r was six years old, ¬minah decided to visit her
relatives in Yathrib (Mad|nah). Her orphan son and a maidservant,
Umm Ayman, accompanied her. She spent a month there and on her
return journey back to Makkah, she fell ill and died at a place called
Abw\.
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