Photo de stock - Islam. (Miniature from Khamsa of Amir Khitow (12253-1325). Muhammad (c. 570 CE - 8 June 632 CE) is the prophet and founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was God´s Messenger, sent to confirm the essential teachings of monotheism preached previously by Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets.He is viewed as the final prophet of God in primary branches of Islam, though some modern denominations diverge from this belief. Muhammad united Arabia into a single Muslim polity and ensured that his teachings, practices, and the Quran formed the basis of Islamic religious belief. Isra and Mi´raj.Islamic tradition states that in 620, Muhammad experienced the Isra and Mi´raj, a miraculous night-long journey said to have occurred with the angel Gabriel. At the journey´s beginning, the Isra, he is said to have traveled from Mecca on a winged steed to ´´the farthest mosque.´´ Later, during the Mi´raj, Muhammad is said to have toured heaven and hell, and spoke with earlier prophets, such as Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Ibn Ishaq, author of the first biography of Muhammad, presents the event as a spiritual experience, later historians, such as Al-Tabari and Ibn Kathir, present it as a physical journey. Some western scholarswho hold that the Isra and Mi´raj journey traveled through the heavens from the sacred enclosure at Mecca to the celestial al- Baytu´l-Ma´mur (heavenly prototype of the Kaaba), later traditions indicate Muhammad´s journey as having been from Mecca to Jerusalem