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The prostration at surat al-Najm

سجدة النجم

c. 615 CE

Mecca

In Ramadan of the fifth year, before a great assembly of Quraysh's chiefs in the sanctuary, the Prophet ﷺ recited surat al-Najm; when he reached its closing prostration and prostrated, none present held back and all fell prostrate — Muslims and polytheists alike, as Bukhari reports.

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The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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600610620630 c.
Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era

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Mecca

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Occurred at
Mecca
Had participant
Muhammad· Quraysh
Led to
The second migration to Abyssinia
Part of
The Prophetic Era
Revealed in
Qur'an 53:62

People and things also explored

The capture of Thumama ibn Uthal al-Hanafi and his acceptance of Islam· The Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)· The Expedition of Banu al-Mustaliq (al-Muraysi')· The first migration to Abyssinia· Last Quraysh delegation to Abu Talib· The proclamation on al-Safa· The Treaty of Hudaybiyya· The Fulfilled Umrah (Umrat al-Qada)

Sources

  • al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
  • Sahih al-Bukhari
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islam.museum contributors. “The prostration at surat al-Najm”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/sajdat-al-najm/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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The capture of Thumama ibn Uthal al-Hanafi and his acceptance of Islam

Ibn Ishaq relates from Abu Sa'id al-Maqburi from Abu Hurayra: a cavalry party of the Prophet's seized a man of Banu Hanifa without knowing who he was; the Prophet said 'this is Thumama ibn Uthal al-Hanafi, treat your captive well', and had his household's food and his milch-camel sent to him; he kept inviting him to Islam and Thumama answered: if you kill, you kill a man of blood, and if you want ransom, ask what you will; then he ordered him released, and Thumama went to al-Baqi', purified himself and pledged Islam; when he then ate little, the Prophet said the unbeliever eats with seven bowels and the believer with one. Ibn Hisham adds his umra and loud talbiya at Mecca, and his cutting off the grain of al-Yamama from Mecca until the Prophet wrote to him to let the caravans through.