10 Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

1. It was the custom of the Arabs to entrust their young children to a wet nurse from the Bedouins. Muhammad (PBUH) in his childhood had four foster-mothers:

• Suwaiba Aslamiyyah. 
• Khawla Bint Munthir. 
• Ummu Ayman. 
• Halimah Sa’diyyah.

2. Only Safiyyah (r) was a non-Arab from the eleven wives Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) had. Safiyyah (r) belonged to a Jewish tribe.

3. The Prophet (PBUH) pronounced his first Talaq on Hafsa (r), but later withdrew it as he received wahi (revelation) from Allah to take her back.

4. The prophet (PBUH) had nine huts surrounding the Masjid an-Nabawi, Some of them were built of date palm leaves, some were built of stone, some others were with walls of wattle and daub.

5. He loved archery!

6. Archangel Jibreel (a) came to Prophet (PBUH) bringing wahy (revelation) around Twenty Four Thousand times.

7. The angel Israfil (a), who is assigned to blow the trumpet on the day of judgement, had only descended to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

8. Before the Prophet-hood, Muhammad (PBUH) used to retreat to the cave Hira, and returning he performed Thawaf at Ka’bah before he went home.

9. Using the Miswak was the last act the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) did before he passed away. 

10. He was illiterate. And therefore Islams greatest miracle is the Quran, because a person who could not read or write would never be able to write something as profound as the Quran.