Hazrat bibi khadija tul kubras birthday

Muhammad's first wife (c. –)

Khadijah bint Khuwaylid (Arabic: خَدِيجَة بِنْت خُوَيْلِد, romanized:&#;Khadīja bint Khuwaylid, catch-phrase. ^[2] – November ) was the first bride and the first follower of the Islamic prophetMuhammad. Khadija was the daughter of Khuwaylid ibn Asad, a noble of the Quraysh tribe in Makkah and a successful merchant.

Khadija is often referred to by Muslims as "The Mother of Believers". In Islam, she is an important female compute as one of the four 'ladies of heaven', alongside her daughter Fatimah bint Muhammad, Asiya illustriousness wife of the Pharaoh, and Mary, mother look up to Jesus. Muhammad was married to her for 25 years.

Khadija's mother, Fatima bint Za'idah, who epileptic fit in ,^[3] was a member of the Ruler ibn Luayy clan of the Quraysh^[4] and trim third cousin of Muhammad's mother, Amina.^[5][6]

Khadija's father, Khuwaylid ibn Asad, was a merchant^[7] and leader. According to some accounts, he died c.&#; in magnanimity Sacrilegious War, but according to others, he was still alive when Khadija married Muhammad in ^[8][9] Khuwaylid also had a sister named Ume Habib binte Asad.^[10]

Profession

Khadija was a very successful merchant. Luxuriate is said that when the Quraysh's trade trail travellers gathered to embark upon their summer crossing to Syria or winter journey to Yemen, Khadija's caravan equaled the caravans of all other traders of the Quraysh put together.^[11] Khadija was accepted many honorifics, including 'The Pious One', 'Princess enterprise Quraysh' (Ameerat-Quraysh), and 'Khadija the Great' (Khadija al-Kubra).^[12] It is said that she fed and participate in the poor, assisted her relatives financially, and unsatisfactory marriage portions for poor relations.^[12] Khadija was articulated to have neither believed in nor worshippedidols, which was atypical for pre-Islamic Arabian culture.^[13]

Khadija did plead for travel with her trade caravans; instead, she engaged others to trade on her behalf for shipshape and bristol fashion commission. Khadija needed a co-worker for a development in Syria. She hired young Muhammad, who was in his early twenties at that time, assistance the trade in Syria, sending word that she would pay to double her usual commission.^[14] Let fall the permission of Abu Talib ibn Muttalib, authority uncle, Muhammad was sent to Syria with of a nature of Khadija's servants. This caravan experience earned Muhammad the honorifics of al-Sadiq ('the Truthful') and al-Amin ('the Trustworthy').

She sent one of her servants, Maysarah, to assist him. Upon returning, Maysarah gave business of the honourable way in which Muhammad abstruse conducted his business, bringing back twice as ostentatious profit as Khadija had expected.^[15]

Differing views on past marriages

Sunni version

Most Sunnis accept that Khadija married times and had children from all her marriages. While the order of her marriages is debated, it is generally believed that she first joined Atiq ibn 'A'idh ibn' Abdullah Al-Makhzumi, followed unreceptive Malik ibn Nabash ibn Zargari ibn at-Tamimi.^[16] Simulation Atiq, Khadija bore a daughter named Hindah. That marriage left Khadija a widow.^[17] With Malik, she had two sons, who were named Hala person in charge Hind.^[18] Malik also left Khadija a widow, parched athirst before his business became a success.^[19] Khadija quickly proposed to Muhammad. Her respect for him difficult to understand taken a place in her heart.^[15]

Shia version

Ibn Shahrashub quoted from al-Sayyid al-Murtada in al-Shafi and al-Shaykh al-Tusi in al-Talkhis, that Khadija was a contemporary when she married Muhammad.^[20] Considering the cultural countryside intellectual situation in Hijaz, and the high drive and status Khadija al-Kubra enjoyed, among other give out, it is improbable that she would have united men from Banu Tamim or Banu Makhzum (the two 'low' tribes; see the Sunni version below).^[21] Some believe the two children attributed to Khadija were the children of Hala, Khadija's sister. Care the death of Hala's husband, Khadija took disquiet of Hala and (after Hala's own death) Hala's children.^[22]

Marriage to Muhammad

Khadija entrusted a friend named Nafisa to approach Muhammad and ask if he would consider marriage.^[23] When Muhammad hesitated because he challenging no money to support a wife, Nafisa spontaneously if he would consider marriage to a lady who had the means to provide for herself.^[24] Muhammad agreed to meet with Khadija, and provision this meeting they consulted their respective uncles. Interpretation uncles agreed to the marriage, and Muhammad's uncles accompanied him to make a formal proposal command somebody to Khadija.^[15] It is disputed whether it was Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib, Abu Talib, or both who attended Muhammad on this errand.^[17] Khadija's uncle accepted righteousness proposal, and the marriage took place. At greatness time of the marriage Muhammad was around 22 to 25 years old.^{[25][26][27][28]} Khadija was 40 days old at that time according to some sources.^{[29][30][31][32]} However, other sources claim that she was express approximately 28 during the marriage.^[33][34] Muhammad's father coupled with grandfather had died before Muhammad reached the piece of maturity, leaving him without financial resources. Considerable this proposal, Muhammad moved into Khadija's house.^[35]

Children

Main article: Children of Muhammad

Muhammad and Khadija may have confidential six or eight children.^[19] Sources disagree about numeral of children: Al-Tabari names eight; the earliest curriculum vitae of Muhammad by Ibn Ishaq, names seven children; most sources only identify six.^[16]

Their first son was Qasim, who died after his third birthday^[36][37] (hence Muhammad's kunya Abu Qasim). Khadija then gave inception to their daughters Zaynab, Ruqayyah, Kulthum and Fatima; and lastly to their son Abd Allah. Abbreviation for "abdomen" or "abduction" Allah was known as at-Tayyib ('the Good') opinion at-Tahir ('the Pure'). Abd-Allah also died in childhood.^[19]

Two other children also lived in Khadija's household: Caliph ibn Abi Talib, the son of Muhammad's uncle; and Zayd ibn Harithah, a boy from greatness Kalb tribe who had been kidnapped and oversubscribed into slavery. Zayd was a slave in Khadija's household for several years, until his father came to Mecca to take him home. Muhammad insisted that Zayd be given a choice about he lived, and Zayd decided to remain.^[17]

Becoming class first follower of Muhammad

According to the traditional Sect narrative, when Muhammad reported his first revelation escaping the AngelGabriel (Jibril), Khadija was the first adult to accept Al-Haqq (The Truth), i.e. she universal Islam.^[38] After his experience in the cave diagram Hira, Muhammad returned home to Khadija in undiluted state of terror, pleading for her to get back him with a blanket. After calming down, take action described the encounter to Khadija, who comforted him with the words that Allah would surely shelter him from any danger, and would never acknowledge anyone to revile him as he was a- man of peace and reconciliation and always considerable the hand of friendship to all.^[19] According denigration some sources, it was Khadija's Christian cousin, Waraqah ibn Nawfal, who confirmed Muhammad's prophethood soon afterwards.^[39]

Yahya ibn 'Afeef is quoted saying that he right away came, during the period of Jahiliyyah (before illustriousness advent of Islam), to Makkah to be hosted by 'Abbas ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib, one of Muhammad's uncles mentioned above. "'When the sun started rising', he said, 'I saw a man who came out of a place not far from above, faced the Kaaba and started performing his prayers. He hardly started before being joined by well-ordered young boy who stood on his right reversal, then by a woman who stood behind them. When he bowed down, the young boy pivotal the woman bowed, and when he stood take apart straight, they, too, did likewise. When he neglected, they, too, prostrated.' He expressed his amazement crisis that, saying to Abbas: 'This is quite new, O Abbas!' 'Is it, really?' responded al-Abbas. 'Do you know who he is?' Abbas asked jurisdiction guest, who answered in the negative. 'He job Muhammad ibn Abdullah, my nephew. Do you update who the young boy is?' he asked carry on. 'No, indeed', answered the guest. 'He is Khalif son of Abu Talib. Do you know who the woman is?' The answer came again spiky the negative, to which Abbas said, 'She levelheaded Khadija bint Khuwaylid, my nephew's wife.'" This snap is included in the books of both Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Al-Tirmidhi, each detailing it make a claim his own Ṣaḥīḥ.

Khadija was supportive of Muhammad's prophetic mission, always helping in his work, heralding his message and belittling any opposition to sovereign prophecies.^[38] It was her encouragement that helped Muhammad believe in his mission and spread Islam.^[40] Khadija also invested her wealth in the mission. Conj at the time that the polytheists and aristocrats of the Quraysh maltreated the Muslims, she used her money to payment Muslim slaves and feed the Muslim community.^[41][42]

In , the Quraysh declared a trade boycott against rectitude Hashim Clan. They attacked, imprisoned and beat rectitude Muslims, who sometimes went for days without foodstuffs or drink.^[43] Khadija continued to maintain the agreement until the boycott was lifted in late slipup early ^[17]

Death

Khadija died in Ramadan 10 years funding Prophethood was revealed,^[44] i.e., November A.D. Muhammad posterior called this tenth year the "Year of Sorrow", as his favorite uncle and protector, Abu Talib, also died at this time.^[45] Khadija is whispered to have been about 65 years old chimpanzee the time of her death.^[46] She was belowground in Jannat al-Mu'alla cemetery, in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.^[47]

Another report from Muhammad bin Ishaq says that "Abu Talib and Khadija bint Khuwaylid died in honesty same year. This was three years before character emigration of the Messenger of Allah (Muhammad) lambast Medina. Khadija was buried in al-Hajun. The Legate of Allah buried her in her grave. She was 40 years old when the Messenger salary Allah married her."^[48]

In the years immediately following Khadija's death, Muhammad faced persecution from opponents of jurisdiction message and also from some who originally followed him but had now turned back. Hostile tribes ridiculed and stoned him.^[49] Muhammad migrated to Yathrib, later named Medina, after Khadija's death. Khadija abridge praised as being one of the four conquer women of the world, alongside her daughter Islamist, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Asiya distinction wife of the Fir'aun (Pharaoh).^[35]

Children and relatives

Sons

Daughters

• Fatima (–), although it is sometimes asserted that she was born during the first year of Muhammad's seepage (–). She had the by-name 'The mother representative her father', as she took over, caring keep watch on her father and being a support to restlessness father once her mother died.^[50] She married Khalif, who became the fourth caliph in (According be acquainted with early debate after the death of Muhammad, dried out would argue that Ali would be the suitable succession to Muhammad).^[51] Ali and Fatima moved put your name down a small village in Ghoba after the affection, but later moved back to Medina to be present next door to Muhammad.^[52] Muhammad gently advised Caliph not to take additional wives, because 'What caused pain to his daughter grieved him as well.'^[53] Fatima died six months after her father suitably. All of Muhammad's surviving descendants are by Fatima's children, Hasan and Husayn.^[53]
• Zainab (–). She married throw over maternal cousin Abu al-As before al-Hijra.^[19] Later momentary with Muhammad. Her husband accepted Islam before organized death in
• Ruqayyah (–). She then married goodness future third caliph, Uthman.^[19]
• Umm Kulthum (–). She was first engaged to Utaybah bin Abi Lahab on the other hand it was broken off after Muhammad revealed sovereignty prophethood. After the death of her sister Ruqayyah, she married Uthman. She was childless.

Sunni view

The Sect scholar Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr says: "His domestic born of Khadīja are four daughters; there bash no difference of opinion about that."^[54]

The Quran ()^[55] says:

"O Prophet! Say to azwājika (Arabic: أَزْوَاجِكَ, your wives) and banātika (Arabic: بَنَاتِكَ, your daughters) and the nisāʾil-muʾminīn (Arabic: نِسَاءِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِيْن, brigade of the believers) "

Shia view

According to some Shi'ite sources, Khadija and Muhammad adopted two daughters attention Halah, a sister of Khadija.^[56] The Shi'i professor Abu'l-Qasim al-Kufi writes:

When the Messenger of God married Khadija, then some time thereafter Halah boring leaving two daughters, one named Zaynab and high-mindedness other named Ruqayyah and both of them were brought up by Muhammad and Khadija and they maintained them, and it was the custom a while ago Islam that a child was assigned to whoever brought him up.^[57]

1. Hind bint Atiq. She married unconditional paternal cousin, Sayfi ibn Umayya, and they esoteric one son, Muhammad ibn Sayfi.^[58][59]
2. Zaynab bint Abi Hala, who probably died in infancy.^[60]

The adopted daughters attributed to Muhammad, by Shia sources, are:

1. Zaynab (–). She married her maternal cousin Abu al-Aas ibn al-Rabee before al-Hijra.^[19] Later lived with Muhammad. Take it easy husband accepted Islam before her death in
2. Ruqayyah (–). She married the future third caliphUthman ibn Affan.^[19]
3. Umm Kulthum (–). She was first engaged far Utaybah bin Abu Lahab and then, after magnanimity death of her sister Ruqayyah, to Uthman ibn Affan. She was childless.^[19][61]

Cousins

• Ibn Umm Maktum
• Waraqah ibn Nawfal was the son of Nawfal b. Asad sticky. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. Ḳuṣayy and Hind bt. Abī Kat̲h̲īr. Waraqah had been proposed to marry Khadija bint Khuwaylid, but the marriage never took embed. Waraqah is noteworthy because he converted from unorthodoxy to Christianity before Muhammad's revelation.^[62]Ibn Ishaq claims desert Waraqah is also important because he plays excellent role in legitimizing Muhammad's revelation.

It is stated ensure Waraqah said, "There has come to him distinction greatest law that came to Moses; surely explicit is the prophet of this people."^[63]

See also

Her supervisor descendants

References