Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was born at dawn, on the 17th of Rabi al-Awwal, in Mecca. He was born 25 days after Abrahah’s army, which had attacked Mecca in an attempt to demolish the Kaaba, was miraculously destroyed by Ababil birds. When the Prophet was just two months old, his father Abdullah passed away. He had travelled to the Syrian region with a trading caravan of the Quraysh, became sick on the way back, and passed away in Medina. When the Prophet was 6 years old, he travelled with his mother Aminah to Medina, to visit the grave of his father and meet his paternal family. On their way back to Mecca, his mother also became sick and passed away in al-Abwa, a city between Medina and Mecca. The Prophet became an orphan in his early childhood and was under the full guardianship of his paternal grandfather, Abdul-Muttalib for two years, until Abdul-Muttalib’s demise.