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Birth, orphanhood, and the chest
المولد وشق الصدر
He ﷺ was born in the Year of the Elephant, a Monday, in Makkah, of the house of Hashim. His father Abdullah died before he saw him. His mother Aminah died at Abwa. Abdul Muttalib, then Abu Talib, took him. The Quran did not need a birth-date to call him an orphan whom Allah sheltered.
The opening of his chest as a child is in Muslim: two angels took him, split his chest, washed his heart in Zamzam. That is not a children’s tale. Treat it as the hadith treated it.
From the Quran
From the Sunnah
Aminah’s dream of a light that lit the palaces of Sham is in Ahmad. Hasan as a cluster. Not a fifth pillar.