It covers the early days of the spread of Islam in Mecca, the challenges early Muslims faced, the treatment of Bilal by his master Umayyah ibn Khalaf before Abu Bakr stepped in, bought him out, and freed him, the migration to Abyssinia, and how it led to Medina, the Khandaq, the Battle of Badr and Uhud, the Treaty of al-Hudaybiya and Mu'tah, up till the conquest of Mecca.