Early in Mecca
The history of Islam begins after the Arab tradition with a vocation Muhammad experience on Mount Hira, near Mecca, where he received a commission to preach through the angel Gabriel. The new religion spread first in the family of Muhammad. His first followers were his wife Khadijah, will be even more youthful cousin'Alī ibn Abi Talib Zaid ibn Haritha his slave, his paternal uncle Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib and Jafar a greater brother'Alīs. Traditional reports say about three years Mohammed said the revelations he received, only the few selected friends and family. Only after that, around the year 613, also he began to preach publicly. This event referred to in Arab sources as entry into the house of al-Arqam ibn Abi Arqam'l-. Al-Arqam was a young man, who belonged to the influential clan of quraischitischen Machzūm. He put his house, which was located in the center of Mecca, Muhammad available. Mohammed proclaimed by the Embassy of an uncompromising monotheism found in henotheistisch oriented to Mecca that time few followers, and some Muslims found themselves under pressure from their forced to leave Mecca and migrate to the kingdom of Aksum opponents. The result was a first Muslim community outside Arabia.
