Question

What occupation did Muhammad have before the first revelation?

Answer 1

Caravan manager

Step-by-step explanation:

Caravan in this sense means a team of business people travelling through land borders instead using a more modern and faster mode of transportation during their business adventure.

Muhammad led a team of traders as instructed by her boss Khadijah on many business trips,however due to his honesty and transparency with which he rendered returns, Khadijah proposed to him in order he may become her husband and thus better manage her business empire.

Answer 2

Muhammad is the prophet that is seen as the most important in the Islam, as well as the one that formed this religion. Before Muhammad started to have the revelations and focus on preaching the word of God/Allah, he did had a profession. His profession was a merchant. He was a good merchant from what is known, and he had a good training for this profession since early age. Muhammad was active as a merchant in the eastern Mediterranean region in general which was an excellent location for gaining wealth. During his merchant days, he managed to get in contact with lot of Christians, and that influenced him a lot, later influencing his life and the lives of millions of people in a way that he probably didn't even dream of.