The forerunner to Hazrat Isa Alaihis Salaam was Hazrat Yahya, the son of Hazrat Zakariya Alaihis-Salaam. He was beheaded by king Herod, the Tetrarch of Galilee. Hazrat Yahya's body was buried by his disciples. They tried to wash the blood-stained clothes but the stains would not come clean. Because Hazrat Isa Alaihis-Salaam was one of the disciples of Hazrat Yahya Alaihis-Salaam , they went and reported the matter to Hazrat Isa Alaihis-Salaam. He foretold that these blood-stains would not come off the clothes until the date of the birth of the father of the Promised Prophet. On this day the blood would become fresh and by itself flow off the clothes miraculously, leaving them pure white.
On the day of the birth of Hazrat Abdullah, the father of Hazrat Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the Jewish elders in Syria saw the blood-stains become fresh and drip off miraculously from Hazrat Yahya's preserved blood-stained clothes, until they became pure white. Thereupon some of the learned Jews came from Palestine and Syria to Mecca to enquire about this newborn child. When they saw the 'Nur-e-Muhammadi' (Light of Muhammad) on the forehead of the child Abdullah, they recognised him and said this is 'Nur-e-Muhammadi' of the Promised Prophet. Hence they realised that Hazrat Abdullah was going to be the father of the Promised Prophet; as foretold by Hazrat Isa Alaihis-Salaam in relation to the blood-soaked clothes of Hazrat Yahya Alaihis-Salaam.
They thought that perhaps some evil spirits might be appearing to her, so just a few days before the birth they chained her up , so that the chains would act as charms to ward off the evil spirits. That night she beheld an aged man come to her. He touched the iron and chains from her neck and hands and they fell away. The old man told her that he was Hazrat Ibrahim Alaihis-Salaam "Khalilullah'. Hazrat Ibrahim Alaihis-Salaam told her that when a ram was sacrificed instead of Hazrat Isma'eel Alaihis-Salaam, he had prayed to Allah that his child be blessed with the Promised Prophet through whom the world would be blessed; and which prayer Allah had accepted. This promise of Allah was now going to be fulfilled when the child she was carrying was born.
Hazrat Ibrahim Alaihis-Salaam then said to Bibi Aaminah : "The child now in you, whose name will be Muhammad, is the only prophet from the descendants of my first son and heir, Isma'eel.(Ahsan ul Muwaiz). Hazrat Ibrahim Alaihis-Salaam then explained that the reason for the visit of the angels and previous prophets to her were due to the fact that she was the mother of the Promised Prophet. Thus Bibi Aaminah Radiyallahu-Anha became the third woman in the whole of creation to receive direct visits of angels. The first was Bibi Sarah, the first wife of Hazrat Ibrahim Alahis-Salaam and the second was Bibi Maryam, the mother of Hazrat Isa Alaihis-Salaam.
Then three unknown ladies appeared miraculously before Bibi Aaminah Radiyallahu-Anha to attend to the delivery of the child. The first, said she was Bibi Hajira,the mother of Hazrat Isma'eel. The second was Bibi Maryam, the mother of Hazrat Isa Alaihis Salaam. The third was Queen Asiya, the wife of the Pharoah, who raised Hazrat Musa Alaihis-Salaam.
She was the first person in Pharoah's court who believed in Allah upon seeing the miracle of the snake. In the hands of these three nurses,
Hazrat Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was born without an umbilical (navel) cord, circumcised and his body miraculously pure and clean without any kind of blood or dirt on it.
Thus Hazrat Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was born on Monday the 12th of Rabi-ul-Awwal at dawn, 53 lunar years before Hijrah, which corresponds to the 20th April 570 A.D.
Thereafter three angels appeared. One of them took a seal and marked the right shoulder and handed the child over to the mother. When Bibi Aaminah looked upon the face of the child, it was shining like the full moon and perfume of the finest otto(sweet -smelling essence) was coming from the body. A white cloud then appeared inexplicably and covered him and took him away saying: " O animals on the face of the earth, fish in the seas, and the trees remember the name of this child (Muhammad) and recognise him well. He has combined in himself all the wonderful and good qualities that were in all the prophets that have come on earth from Adam to Isa." When the cloud returned and replaced the child, he was clothed in green silk.
Abdul Muttalib hearing the walls of the Kaabah talk and seeing all the idols fall, ran home to verify if his daughter-in-law had given birth. He did not find the Nur-e-Muhammadi shining from the forehead of Bibi Aaminah Radiyallahu-Anha. He thus knew that the child was already born, so he asked her to show him his grandchild. Bibi Aaminah Radiyallahu-Anha replied that he was in the next room but nobody could see him for three days, as the angels and the dwellers of heaven were paying homage to the child. Abdul Muttalib tried to force his way into that room, but he was confronted by an angel who told the grandfather that he could not see the child until the spiritual dwellers of heaven had completed their adoration.
There were a number of people at the Kaabah at the time of the birth of Hazrat Muhammad Sallallahu-Alaihi-Wasallam, when all the idols fell prostrate. They picked up and erected the fallen idols, but the idols fell down again on their faces. They propped them up again but the idols collapsed for a third time. These idols remained prostrate on the floor for a full twenty-four hours. No amount of effort to refit them throughout the world were successful. It was only on the next day that they were refitted. This was witnessed by thousands , not only at Mecca but all over the world.
After three days, Abdul Muttalib took his grandchild to the Kaabah and named him Muhammad. As soon as this child was taken to the Kaabah for the naming ceremony ,the four corners of the walls of the Kaabah declared:" There is none worthy of worship except Allah and Muhammad is the seal of Prophethood."
Not only did the angels of heaven , the trees and the mountains celebrate the birth of the Holy Prophet Sallallahu-Alaihi-Wasallam, but all animals also celebrated on the night of the birth of Hazrat Muhammad Sallallahu-Alaihi-Wasallam.