Safar

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Safar
Medina, the city to which Muhammad migrated from Mecca (see Hijrah)
Native name	صَفَر (Arabic)
Calendar	Islamic calendar
Month number	2
Number of days	29 or 30 (depends on actual observation of the moon's crescent)
Significant days	Hijrah
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Safar (Arabic: صَفَر, romanized: Ṣafar), also spelt as Safer in Turkish,^[1] is the second month of the lunar Islamic calendar. The Arabic word ṣafar means "travel, migration", corresponding to the pre-Islamic Arabian time period when Muslims fled the oppression of Quraish in Mecca and travelled (mostly barefooted) to Madina.

Most of the Islamic months were named according to ancient Sabean/Sabaic weather conditions; however, since the calendar is lunar, the months shift by about 11 days every solar year, meaning that these conditions do not necessarily correspond to the name of the month.