Traditional date, disputed
Two messengers, then a third, come to a town and are rejected. A man runs from the far end of the city to defend them and is killed. He is told: 'Enter Paradise.'
And there came from the farthest end of the city a man, running. He said, "O my people, follow the messengers.
Quran 36:20
Source: Quran, Ibn Kathir ·
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
