Prophet Muhammad Trivia
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100 free Prophet Muhammad trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The life of the Prophet Muhammad is one of the most closely recorded of any figure in the ancient world: his companions remembered the name of the woman who nursed him, the cloak he used to settle a dispute over a sacred stone, and the weekday on which he died. Every question here comes from that record, the seerah, told plainly and with respect. The 100 questions follow his life in order: a fatherless boyhood in Mecca, his marriage and trading years, the first revelation in a mountain cave, persecution and the migration to Medina, the companions who sheltered and defended him, the battles and treaties of the Medina years, the conquest of Mecca, the Farewell Sermon, and the names and titles by which the Quran and later Muslims have known him. It suits Islamic studies classes, madrasa quiz nights, Eid gatherings and anyone revising the seerah. Play it on your phone with instant answers and explanations, or print it for the classroom.
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Q 01Muhammad's birth year is named for which animal, recalling Abraha's failed march on Mecca?
Elephant
The Year of the Elephant, roughly 570 CE, is named for the war elephants Abraha brought to demolish the Kaaba, an army that tradition says was routed by birds dropping stones.
Q 02In which cave above Mecca, on the 'Mountain of Light', did Muhammad receive the first revelation?
Hira
Hira was where Muhammad went for long spells of solitary prayer, and it was there, in 610, that the angel brought him the opening verses of the Quran.
Q 03Which angel, said in hadith to have six hundred wings, brought Muhammad the Quran's revelations?
Gabriel
Gabriel, Jibril in Arabic, is also believed by Muslims to have announced the births of John the Baptist and Jesus, so the same angel spans the Gospels and the Quran.
Q 04Which merchant paid Muhammad double her usual commission for a trade trip, then proposed marriage?
Khadijah
Khadijah was the first person to accept Islam, and although Muhammad married several times after her death in 619, he took no other wife while she lived.
Q 05Muhammad reached Medina in Rabi' al-Awwal, but in which month does the Islamic calendar's year one begin?
Muharram
Muharram opens every Islamic year, so when the Hijra's year was made year one around 638, the count began about two months before Muhammad set out.
Q 06In whose apartment, now under the dome of the Prophet's Mosque, did Muhammad die and lie buried?
Aisha
Aisha gave up the spot she had wanted for her own grave so that the second caliph could lie beside Muhammad and her father, and she was buried in al-Baqi instead.
Q 07Which daughter of Muhammad, mother of Hasan and Husayn, died within six months of her father in 632?
Fatimah
Fatimah is the daughter through whom Muhammad's descendants spread across the Muslim world, and they are still honoured with titles such as sayyid and sharif.
Q 08On which weekday did Muhammad die in 632, the same day of the week tradition gives for his birth?
Monday
Monday, 8 June 632, was the day of Muhammad's death in Medina, and he is reported to have fasted on Mondays because he was born on that day.
Q 09How many daily prayers were set at Muhammad's ascension, after Moses told him fifty was too many?
5
Muhammad went back and forth on Moses' urging until the 50 prayers became 5, and the hadith says the five carry the reward of fifty.
Q 10Which city did Muhammad's followers face in prayer for over a year before the qibla became Mecca?
Jerusalem
Jerusalem gave way to Mecca in the second year after the Hijra, and the Medina mosque where the congregation is said to have turned mid-prayer is still called the Mosque of the Two Qiblas.
Q 11Which uncle took in Muhammad at eight and later swore to the Quraysh he would never hand him over?
Abu Talib
Abu Talib took in his orphaned nephew despite his own poverty, and his death around 619, aged over 80, stripped Muhammad of his protector in Mecca.
Q 12Which grandfather, finder of the lost Zamzam well, raised Muhammad from age six until his own death?
Abd al-Muttalib
Abd al-Muttalib, a leader of the Quraysh, dug beside the Kaaba after a dream told him where the buried well lay, and he took in the orphan when the boy's mother died on the road from Medina.
Q 13Muhammad's mother, who died at al-Abwa on the road from Medina when he was six, bore which name?
Aminah
Q 21Which command was the first word revealed to Muhammad, opening a surah named for a blood clot?
Read
Read, 'Iqra', was the command Muhammad reports the angel pressing on him three times after he answered that he could not read, and the chapter it opens is the 96th of the Quran.
Q 22In which month, on the Night of Power, do Muslims hold that Muhammad received the first revelation?
Ramadan
Ramadan is named in the Quran itself (2:185) as the month of revelation, and the Night of Power is sought on an odd-numbered night among the month's last ten.
Q 23Which Christian kingdom took in Muhammad's persecuted followers around 615?
Abyssinia
Abyssinia's king, the Negus, refused to surrender the migrants to a Meccan delegation until he had heard their case, made by Ja'far, who described how Muhammad had called them from idols to one God.
Aminah bint Wahb had taken her six-year-old to visit relatives in Medina, where her husband lay buried, and she fell ill on the way home attended by her maid Umm Ayman.
Q 14Which name did Muhammad's father bear, a trader who died at Medina months before his son was born?
Abdullah
Abdullah died, by Ibn Sa'd's account, three months after his marriage, having stopped in Medina on his way home from Syria, so Muhammad was born fatherless around 570.
Q 15Which Banu Sa'd woman nursed the infant Muhammad in the desert, as Meccan families then arranged?
Halimah
Halimah kept the boy for his first years, and her family remembered that their flock gave milk through a famine while the neighbours' animals were dying.
Q 16Which clan of Muhammad, named for his great-grandfather, faced a Meccan ban on trade and marriage?
Banu Hashim
Banu Hashim's boycott ended, tradition says, when the written pact was found eaten by termites except for the words 'In your name, O God', after two to three years of hunger in the valley.
Q 17What did Meccans call the trader Muhammad, who settled the Black Stone dispute with a shared cloak?
Al-Amin
Al-Amin means 'the Trustworthy', and after the clan elders lifted the cloak together, Muhammad set the Black Stone in the wall with his own hands, five years before his first revelation.
Q 18Which monk, by tradition, saw a cloud shade the boy Muhammad in a caravan and foretold his mission?
Bahira
Bahira, the story goes, checked the boy against descriptions in an old book, found the 'sign of prophethood' on his back, and urged his uncle to hurry him home to Mecca.
Q 19Which Christian cousin of Muhammad's first wife called the angel the 'Namus' once sent to Moses?
Waraqah ibn Nawfal
Waraqah ibn Nawfal, a Christian ascetic, died shortly afterwards, and the revelations themselves paused for a while before they resumed.
Q 20Which Persian king reportedly tore up Muhammad's letter inviting him to Islam?
Khosrow II
Khosrow II is said to have torn it up, and Muhammad prayed that God would tear apart his kingdom; Khosrow was later overthrown and executed by his own son.
Q 24Which uncle of Muhammad is condemned in Surah al-Masad, the 111th chapter of the Quran?
Abu Lahab
Abu Lahab was Muhammad's half-uncle, and when he died about a week after news of the Quraysh defeat reached Mecca, his own family left his body unburied for days.
Q 25Who is honoured as Islam's first martyr, an elderly woman speared by Abu Jahl for her faith?
Sumayyah
Sumayyah was the mother of Ammar ibn Yasir, and when Abu Jahl was later killed in battle, Muhammad told Ammar that God had killed his mother's killer.
Q 26Which opponent set out to kill Muhammad but converted on hearing Surah Ta-Ha at his sister's home?
Umar
Umar, later the second caliph, then prayed openly at the Kaaba, a public act the Quraysh had been trying to suppress.
Q 27Which walled city of the Banu Thaqif pelted Muhammad with stones when he sought its protection?
Ta'if
Ta'if's people drove him out with stones, and in an orchard where he sheltered, a Christian slave named Addas brought him grapes and came to believe in him as a prophet.
Q 28Which steed, smaller than a mule but bigger than a donkey, carried Muhammad on the Night Journey?
Buraq
Buraq is described in hadith as a white beast whose every stride reached as far as its eye could see.
Q 29Quran 33:40 calls Muhammad 'not the father of any of your men' and gives him which title?
Seal of the Prophets
Seal of the Prophets, Khatam an-Nabiyyin, is understood by Sunni and Shia Muslims as meaning no prophet can follow Muhammad, and in 1974 Pakistan declared the Ahmadiyya, who interpret it otherwise, non-Muslim.
Q 30What was Medina called before Muhammad came, its Aws and Khazraj tribes having feuded for 120 years?
Yathrib
Yathrib is presumed to have been renamed Madinat al-Nabi, 'City of the Prophet', and its residents had met Muhammad secretly outside Mecca to invite him as a mediator between the factions.