Life event · The day the Prophet ﷺ returned to Madinah from Badr
Passed away in Madinah, on the very day the victory at Badr was announced.
The day the Prophet ﷺ returned to Madinah from Badr, Ramadan/Shawwal 2 AH · 2 AH
Details differ across the sources
Sources differ on whether Ruqayyah was the first, second, or third daughter of the Prophet ﷺ.
Ruqayyah RA, the daughter of the Prophet ﷺ and wife of Uthman ibn Affan RA, passed away in Madinah. The Prophet ﷺ had told Uthman RA to stay behind from the Battle of Badr to nurse her. Uthman RA had just finished burying her at Baqi' al-Gharqad when he heard cries of takbir ("Allahu akbar") in the city. It was Zayd ibn Harithah RA arriving with news of the victory at Badr.
No one knows for certain the birth order of the Prophet ﷺ's daughters. Some say Ruqayyah was the first, some the second and some the third. But she was certainly the first of them to die. Her death fell on the happiest day of early Islam, bringing grief to the Prophet ﷺ's own household. This is taken as a lesson that this world remains a place of trial, even at its most joyful moments.
Other events recorded in 2 AH. Their order within the year is not established; use the storyline above for the sequence.
Passed away in Madinah, on the very day the victory at Badr was announced.
What is going on? What is this takbir?
Zayd ibn Harithah was riding into Madinah shouting takbir to announce the victory at Badr, just as Uthman finished burying Ruqayyah RA.