A Quranic Journal

After these preliminary statements, Allah mentions the favors He gave to His messenger. First, He gave him protection in his orphanhood. His father died before his birth. And when he was a mere child of six years, he lost his mother and his grandfather took charge of his upbringing. Two years later, when he was only eight, his grandfather also died and he came under the affectionate wings of his uncle who, despite his insistence on paganism, supported him and accorded him protection till he breathed his last breath. That was a little before the Prophet was commanded by Allah to migrate to al-Madina