Put off Muslim expansion out of Saudi Arabia

How can the Muslim expansion out of Saudi Arabia be put off by 200 years?Also, what happens in the Byzantine and Sassanid empires during the meantime until 200 years later than the start of Muslim expansion OTL?
 
Take away the big war between Byzantines and Sassanids. That way they won't be weakened when the Muslims attack.

Islam probably won't even exist. I mean key parts of Islam appear to be direct responses to the situation, e. G. The focus on Alms giving, and the promises given to fighters.

Edit: too expand. The Rashidun Period was do or die for Islam, it had to deliver prosperity to its subjects, or it would not be able to convert the population, if this doesn't happen it collapses. If it loses the wars, people don't convert, and it collapses. No matter which why you cut it the Caliphs had to win for Islam to exist to 2018.
 
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How can the Muslim expansion out of Saudi Arabia be put off by 200 years?Also, what happens in the Byzantine and Sassanid empires during the meantime until 200 years later than the start of Muslim expansion OTL?
There had been established trade routes from Arabia to Southern Asia , so it can find its was there.
 
I’d ask what the PoD restrictions are, but even if we only look after the death of the prophet, thee would still be plenty of stuff to work with; actually, I kind of wonder what @GoulashComrade could come until with on that.
 
Yeah, so the way I see it, if you want to keep Islam from spreading once it's been preached already, you have to keep it from uniting Arabia under one banner. Once the Caliphate had done that, the clock already started ticking for Heraclius and Yazdegerd. Even though I like to talk up my boy Khalid ibn al Walid (somebody has to!), the fact of the matter is that Abu Ubaidah, Az-Zubeyr, Amr ibn al As, and co. would probably have gotten the job done as well. Definitely with more Muslim losses, likely not everywhere that they grabbed in OTL, but I don't think offing Khalid would be enough to stop it altogether.

There's a number of changes that could be made to keep Islam from ascending in the Peninsula. Prophet Muhammad almost dies a bunch of times: the Quraysh make a plan to assassinate him the night he leaves for Hijrah that's foiled by a teenage Ali, Khalid ibn al Walid and Amr ibn al As almost geek him at Uhud when they were playing for the Makkan side, he almost gets beheaded by some dude on a horse at the Battle of Khandaq until Zaid ibn Thabit kills him with a spear on a reflex, another Makkan tried to assassinate him by shooting a poisoned arrow at him and hit another Makkan instead, Ayesha accidentally stops an assassnation attempt when she fed the cats outside some poisoned food meant for Muhammad (who gave it to her because he wasn't hungry, but she didn't like camel meat.) One guy literally tried to drop a giant rock on his head. Prophet Muhammad is basically the Fidel Castro of the seventh century as far as dodging attempts to murder him. You could have any number of these increasingly Warner Brothers-esque plans succeed.

The later Muhammad dies, though, the more I think that Islam will remain an independent force in Arabia (like a version of the hanif movement with more social force.) Even if it doesn't unite Arabia, I don't see it going away. It was too popular with the poor/socially disadvantaged for that. It would be quite different from Caliphal Islam, though, to say the least.
 
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I feel like that depends on where exactly the Ridda Wars go off the rails for Abu Bakr. If he isn't able to keep Tulayha out of Madinah before Usama ibn Zaid, Khalid ibn al Walid, Umar ibn al Khattab, and Ali ibn Abi Talib could return from the Syrian frontier, then that's probably game over for Islam as we know it. Even if Khalid hunted Tulayha down with the rest of the army and slayed him afterwards, the psychological devastation of having the Prophet's City sacked, the Caliph executed, and the widows of the Prophet violated and beheaded (like Tulayha said he would do when he thought his chances were looking good) would probably break Islam as an expanding movement. An inability to retake Jawh al-Yamamah might be less dire, but a disastrous battle of Yamamah could see Companions like Khalid ibn Al Walid, Usama ibn Zaid, and Abu Ubaidah killed, which takes out a good chunk of the Rashidun Army's top talent in one go.
 
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