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Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim<ref name="auto">[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad Muhammad] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209125352/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad |date=9 February 2017 }} [[Encyclopedia Britannica]]. Retrieved 15 February 2017.</ref> was born in Mecca<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rodinson |first1=Maxime |author-link1=Maxime Rodinson |title=Muhammad: Prophet of Islam |year=2002 |publisher=Tauris Parke Paperbacks|page=38 |isbn=978-1-86064-827-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqR_mU0qpE4C&pg=PA38 |access-date=12 May 2019}}</ref> about the year 570,{{sfn|Conrad|1987}} and [[Mawlid|his birthday]] is believed to be in the month of [[Rabi' al-awwal]].{{sfn|Esposito|2003}} He belonged to the [[Banu Hashim]] clan, part of the [[Quraysh tribe]], which was one of Mecca's prominent families, although it appears less prosperous during Muhammad's early lifetime.{{sfn|Buhl|Welch|1993}}{{efn|See also {{qref|43|31|b=y}} cited in EoI; Muhammad.}} Islamic tradition holds that the year of Muhammad's birth was the year that the Yemeni king [[Abraha]] failed to conquer [[Mecca]].<ref>Marr J.S., Hubbard E., Cathey J.T. (2014): The Year of the Elephant. <!-- figshare. -->
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Retrieved 21 October 2014 (GMT).</ref> However, recent scholarship has found this to be incorrect as other evidence suggests that if the expedition did occur it must have taken place several years before Muhammad's birth.{{sfn|Conrad|1987}}{{Sfn|Reynolds|2023|p=16}}{{Sfn|Johnson|2023|p=286}}{{sfn|Peters|2010|p=61}}{{Sfn|Muesse|2018|p=213}}{{sfn|Buhl|Welch|1993|p=361}} Later Muslim scholars presumably simply pasted Abraha's famous name to their story of Muhammad's birth to interpret the unclear passage about "the men of elephants" in Quran 105:1–5.{{Sfn|Reynolds|2023|p=16}} The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity considers the story of Abraha's expedition with war elephants to be a myth.{{Sfn|Johnson|
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