Who Was Alive

Were Muhammad and Mu'awiya I alive at the same time?

Yes. Muhammad and Mu'awiya I were alive at the same time for 28 or 29 years, from AD 603 to AD 632.

Muhammad was 31 or 32 when Mu'awiya I was born.

Mu'awiya I was 28 or 29 when Muhammad died, aged 61.

Muhammad

Arabian political leader and the founder of Islam

Born 20 April AD 571 · died 8 June AD 632, aged 61

Mu'awiya I

Founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate

Born AD 603 · died AD 680, aged 76 or 77

  1. Gregory I
  2. Muhammad
  3. Abu Bakr
  4. Umar ibn Al-Khattāb
  5. Brahmagupta
  6. Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
  7. Mu'awiya I
Muhammad and Mu'awiya I in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.