So Allah reminded them of His favour and His sign: that neither the Prophet himself nor his people had possessed this knowledge—indeed, his people knew nothing of it whatsoever—so that no one might imagine he had learned it from them, for they had no such knowledge to give.

It is established through recurrent, mass-transmitted reports that Muhammad—peace and blessings be upon him—was born in Mecca and grew up there, having first spent part of his infancy as a foster-child in the desert of the Saʿd ibn Bakr tribe near al-Ṭāʾif, to the east of Mecca. While he was still a small boy, his wet nurse, Ḥalīmah al-Saʿdiyyah, brought him back.