![]() ![]() In the year 17 A.H., the Caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab RA adopted the date beginning on the first of Muharram in the first year of the Prophet’s migration. The Prophet Muhammad SAW had ordered to begin recording after his arrival in Yathrib, or known today as Medina, and this recording occurred since the first year of migration, the Prophet was sending books to kings, princes, and heads of various tribes on the date of migration. Migration of those who embraced Islam continued to Medina, where migration to Medina was obligatory for Muslims, and many verses were revealed urging Muslims to emigrate, until the conquest of Mecca in 8 AH. The Prophet SAW's migration was taken as the beginning of the Hijri calendar, by order of Caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab RA after consulting the rest of the Companions at the time of his caliphate. The Decision on which Month to StartĪnd about the beginning of the Hijri year, there were a number of opinions about that, as some say that the month of Ramadan should be the beginning of the Hijri year, and the Caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab RA adopted “Muharram” because it is the time when people leave their pilgrimage, so they agreed on it. Thus the Hijri year began from the migration of the Messenger SAW, which corresponds to 622 AD, to become the first year in the Hijri Date. ![]() The last being the opinion of the majority.Ĭaliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab RA consulted two other companions, Uthman Ibn Affan RA and Ali Ibn Abi Talib RA to which they agreed. There were a number of opinions, as some said: “We date from the birth of the Prophet SAW, and others suggested taking the date of his passing, while others said to depend on the date of his migration. Regarding the reason for searching for a history of Muslims, the researchers point out that it came after a letter was received by Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari, the Emir of Basra in the seventeenth year of the caliphate of Omar, dated in the month of “Sha’ban.” He sent to Caliph Omar, saying: “O Commander of the Faithful, the books came to us, it was dated in Sha’ban, and we do not know if it was in the past year or the current year.”Īccording to the Islamic sources that spoke about the narration, Omar Ibn Al-Khattab RA gathered the companions to come up with a solution to the problem. The migration of the Prophet SAW to Medina was not at the beginning of the month of Muharram, but rather after two months, that is, at the beginning of the month of Rabi’ al-Awwal, specifically 22 Rabi’ al-Awwal, (September 24, 622 AD). Muslims adopted the Hijri calendar to be the calendar of the Islamic state, and due to its adoption of the honorable prophetic migration as the beginning of it, it was called the Hijri calendar, and it was adopted two and a half years after the caliphate of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab RA in the first spring of the year 16 AH, and it was on Muharram 1 of The year 17 AH is the beginning of the first Hijri year after the adoption of the Hijri calendar.
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