In this article the author examines Surat 33 of the Qur’an, al-Ahzab, in the context of circumstances in Prophet Muhammad’s life at the time of its revelation. Pivotal issues such as the roots of the Muslim perspective on adoption, succession of women, and who was referred to by the term ahl al-bayt are looked at via the same lens.
Surat 33 al-Ahzab of the Qur’an, it is known, is composed of pronouncements and legislation in the time around the Battle of the Trench and the Siege of Medina in Du’l-Qa‘da of the year 627 CE. The legislation, containing the designation of Muhammad as the Seal of the Prophets (khatam al-nabiyyin) obviously had a major bearing on the question of the succession to him five years later.
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