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====Isra and Miraj====

{{Main|Isra and Mi'raj}}

[[Image:Miraj2.jpg|thumb|155px|left|A 16th century [[Persian miniature]] painting celebrating Muhammad's ascent into the Heavens, a journey known as the [[Miraj]]. Muhammad's face is veiled, a common practice in Islamic art.]]

Some time in [[620]], Muhammad told his followers that he had experienced the ''[[Isra and Miraj]]'', a miraculous journey said to have been accomplished in one night along with [[Gabriel|Angel Gabriel]]. In the first part of the journey, the ''Isra'', he is said to have travelled from [[Mecca]] to "the farthest mosque" (in Arabic: ''masjid al-aqsa''), which Muslims usually identify with the [[Temple Mount]] in [[Jerusalem]]. In the second part, the ''Miraj'', Muhammad is said to have toured [[heaven]] and [[hell]], and spoken with earlier prophets, such as [[Abraham]], [[Moses]], and [[Jesus]]. [[Ibn Ishaq]], author of first [[Sirah Rasul Allah|biography]] of Muhammad, presents this event as a spiritual experience while later historians like [[Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari|Al-Tabari]] and [[Ibn Kathir]] present it as a physical journey.<ref>''Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World'' (2003), p.482</ref>{{dubious}} Those Muslims subscribing to the latter view consider the place under the [[Dome of the Rock]] the site from which Muhammad ascended to heaven.

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=====More traditions=====

[[image:Mohammed_kaaba_1315.jpg|thumb|Image made in [[1315]] of Pre-Prophethood Muhammad re-dedicating the Black Stone at the Kaaba. From [[Tabriz]], [[Persia]] and can be found in [[Rashid al-Din]]s [[Jami' al-Tawarikh]] ("''The Universal History''" or "''Compendium of Chronicles''"), held in the [[University of Edinburgh]].]]

*Muslims tradition narrates miracles during his time growing up in the desert as an infant during the period when Muhammad was placed in the care of a [[Bedouin]] wet nurse - [[Halima Sadia]].

*After he returned to Mecca, he is said to have been beloved by all around him because he was such a polite and honest child.