The Tenth Year of Prophecy is known in the Sirah as ‘The Year of Grief’ as within it both the Prophet’s ﷺ beloved uncle, Abu Talib, and wife, Khadijah, died. Later on in the same year, the Prophet ﷺ met fierce persecution in the town of Ta’if, while trying to preach the message of Islam, an experience he was to recall as one of the most difficult of his life. Just before the gruelling experiences of the tenth year of [...]
