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خديجة بنت خويلد

Khadijah (RA)

Khadijah bint Khuwaylid

Also known as: Khadija, Siti Khadijah, Umm al-Mu'minin

c. 68 BH – 3 BH · c. 555–619 CE

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The first wife of the Prophet ﷺ and the first person to believe in his message.

Khadijah was a respected and wealthy merchant of Quraysh, known as al-Tahirah, the pure one. Impressed by the honesty of the young Muhammad ﷺ, who led one of her trade caravans to Syria, she proposed marriage to him. They were married for about twenty-five years, and she was the mother of all his children except Ibrahim.

When he returned trembling from the Cave of Hira after the first revelation, she comforted him and became the first to believe in him. She spent her wealth supporting the message and endured the years of boycott with him. Her death, in the same year as Abu Talib's, became known as the Year of Sorrow. The Prophet ﷺ remembered her with love for the rest of his life.

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Life journey

  1. c. 555 CE Makkah مكة
    Died 619 CE · 3 BH
    Buried in al-Ma'la cemetery in Makkah.

Places in their life

The Ka'bah in al-Masjid al-Haram, Makkah
The Ka'bah in al-Masjid al-Haram, Makkah
Photo: Adli Wahid (minor modifications by Basile Morin), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

  • Sahih al-Bukhari (Book of the Beginning of Revelation; Book of the Virtues of the Ansar)
  • Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabaqat al-Kubra
  • Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, al-Isaba fi Tamyiz al-Sahaba
Draft, awaiting scholarly review.
Birth year approximate (often given as 15 years before the Year of the Elephant). Her age at marriage is reported as 40, with other reports giving 28.