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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 20, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the Islamic prophet Muhammad, while in Mecca, was a merchant involved in trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?

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Muhammad's date of birth?

The current version of the webpage gives the day of birth of Muhammad as April 26, 570, without mentioning any source or argument for the choice of this particular date.

The quoted date was a Saturday, which is at variance with Muslim tradition which claims that the event occurred on a Monday.

Other dates have been cited in the past for this event, such as April 20, 571 (which was a Monday) and several others.

As there is no certainty in this matter (as with the year and day of Christ's birth) it would be better to remove the date and state that Muhammad was probably born in 570 or 571 AD. AstroLynx (talk) 16:23, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No Ethan223456juke (talk) 23:11, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Heavy POV

"The key themes of his messages in Mecca were the oneness of God and the rejection of polytheism, generosity towards the poor and the needy, kind treatment and emancipation of slaves, and the equality between men and women before God." This sounds like islamist apologetic whitewash. Allah also revealed to him that a woman is only worth half as much as a man, that Islam must be spread by fire and sword, etc etc The introductory text is written like it belongs into a recruitment pamphlet, not into an objective encyclopedia. --95.91.226.22 (talk) 19:58, 15 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not to mention that Muhammad did own slaves himself, along with sex slaves, he stole from people by raiding innocent caravans, had people killed for frivolous reasons. Muhammad's rules for how to treat others breaks down to this - If the person is a muslim then you cannot make that person a slave, or a sex slave, or steal from him/her, you can still kill him/her for mocking "the prophet"....Muhammad's treatments of others entirely depends if the person is a muslim or not, that is left out by Islamic apologists all the time. 76.229.160.175 (talk)

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What is the name given by the Qur'an to Makkah, where the Prophet was born?

ക്വിസ് 42.111.225.88 (talk) 01:49, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]