Journalist Rageh Omaar traces the life of the Prophet Muhammad from his birth in Mecca to his death in Medina, using the historical record alongside the beliefs of Muslims to reconstruct a figure who is at once a religious prophet and a political and military leader. Omaar travels through Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East, visiting the caves and cities central to the story, and talks with historians, theologians, and Islamic scholars who often disagree about what can be verified and what is tradition. The series follows Muhammad's early life as an orphan and merchant, the first revelations he described receiving, the hostility he faced in Mecca, the flight to Medina that Muslims count as the start of their calendar, and the wars and treaties that followed as his movement grew into a state. Interviews sit alongside location filming and readings from early Islamic texts, giving equal weight to the spiritual claims believers make and the political realities historians describe.