Hazrat Khadija bint Khuwaylid (R.A): Khadijah was the first wife of Prophet Muhammad, whom she met as a widow of a wealthy merchant however had gotten prosperous in her own right. Then, our Holy Prophet (PBUH) brought his esteemed wife with him to Abu Talib’s home. [20], According to the traditional Sunni narrative, when Muhammad reported his first revelation from the Angel Gabriel (Jibril), Khadijah was the first person to accept Al-Haqq The Truth i.e. She provided great consolation to him throughout his life and he continued to remember her in his later years as his most beloved wife. So, with lady Khadijah we begin our journey of discovering the personalities of the Prophet’s wives. This answers Hakim Niaz Ahmad who could not make sense of the Prophet (ﷺ) marrying a 40-year-old lady at the age of twenty-five, and instead attributed it to an alleged desire on the part of Muslims to see something ‘unnatural’ in Prophet’s conduct, Kashf al-Ghumma, Vol.2, 3. It is, therefore, important to undertake a rigorous analysis of the available information. وذلك الثبت عند العلماء, The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) married Khadija when he was twenty-five years old and she was forty years old. [28][29]. She married her paternal cousin, Sayfi ibn Umayya, and they had one son, Muhammad ibn Sayfi. The Age of Khadija at the Time of her Marriage with the Prophet, قال أبو عبد الله: قرأت بخط أبي بكر بن أبي خيثمة قال: حدثنا مصعب بن عبد الله الزبيري قال: أكبر ولد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم القاسم , ثم زينب، ثم عبد الله، ثم أم كلثوم، ثم فاطمة، ثم رقية قال مصعب: هم هكذا: الأول فالأول، ثم مات القاسم وهو أول ميت من ولده، مات بمكة،. In terms of explicit narrations the Twenty-Eight-Year opinion is based on the following two accounts. No sooner was she apprised of his willingness to marry her, Khadijah sent a message to his uncle and fixed a time when they should meet. In 595 Khadijah needed a co-worker for a transaction in Syria. [3], أخبرنا محمد بن عمر. [42] The signal omission of any comment on age of Khadija with these authors tells us that the comment with al-Baihaqi was not actually from Mus‘ab but from al-Baihaqi himself or at best his teacher Abu ‘Abdullah al-Hakim who we know opined thus, as already noted. It is established that Khadija died in the tenth year after the Prophet’s proclamation of the message, twenty-five years after her marriage with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. [16], Khadijah married three times and had children from all her marriages. At that time she was the most wealthy and intelligent, and had the noblest lineage of all the women in her tribe. At the least, I failed to find any well-known author of the Prophet’s biography referring to it except those from very recent times. Qur’an 4:95 and Exemption for the Blind Man, “Slave for Slave, Woman for Woman”: Qur’an 2:178 Explained, Qur’an’s Prophecy about the Jews and the Followers of Christ. [13], Khadijah did not travel with her trade caravans; she employed others to trade on her behalf for a commission. [8], محمد بن صالح، وعبد الرحمن بن عبد العزيز، قالا: توفيت خديجة لعشر خلون من شهر رمضان وذلك قبل الهجرة بثلاث سنين وهي يومئذ بنت خمس وستين سنة, Muhammad bin Salih and Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Aziz both said: Khadija died on the tenth of Ramadan. ‘Urwah reported: Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, said, “I never felt so jealous about any woman as I did for Khadijah. Khadija was buried in al-Hajun. Do you know who the woman is?" Khadijah's father, Khuwaylid ibn Asad, was a merchant[3] and leader. Mariya was a Copt gifted to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) by Maquqas, the ruler of Alexandria …[37]. Then ‘Abdullah died. They loved each other truly and deeply. Among those who have popularized this opinion are Dr. Hamidullah and Dr. Akram Diya al-‘Umri. أخبرنا مغيرة بن عبد الرحمن الأسدي عن أهله قالوا: سألنا حكيم بن حزام أيهما كان أسن رسول الله – صلى الله عليه وسلم – أو خديجة. How old was Khadijah bint Khuwaylid when she married the Prophet? Khadijah bint Khualid offered the marriage because of the good personality of the Prophet Muhammad. The Prophet (may the blessings and peace of God be upon him) called Khadija the best of women, and she received the glad tidings of a palace in Paradise. When they were married, the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was 25 years old, and Khadijah was 40. After Hala’s husband’s death, Khadijah took care of Hala and (after Hala’s death) Hala’s children. 595 AD: Married Khadijah, the daughter of Khuwailid (she died in 619 AD) 619 AD: Married Ai'sha, the daughter of Abu Bakr (she was 6 years old, when he was 50) 619 AD: Married Sawdah, the daughter of Zama 624 AD: Married Hafsah, the daughter of Omar 625 AD: Married Zaynab, the daughter of Gahsh and the wife of Zayd (see above) Luckily the work of Mus‘ab b. [43] She was buried in Jannat al-Mu'alla cemetery, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. [19], Two other children also lived in Khadijah's household: Ali ibn Abi Talib, the son of Muhammad's uncle; and Zayd ibn Harithah, a boy from the Udhra tribe who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. retorted al-Abbas. She was 40 years old when the Messenger of Allah married her"[45]. It is said that Khadija (radi Allahu anha) was aged 40 and the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) 25. Khadijah then gave birth to their daughters Zaynab, Ruqayyah, Umm Kulthum and Fatima; and lastly to their son Abd-Allah. Khadijah bint Khuwaylid (Arabic: خَدِيجَة بِنْت خُوَيْلِد‎, Khadījah bint Khuwaylid, born AD 555[1] – 22 November AD 619), commonly known as Khadija, was the first wife and first follower of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Religious Studies. His companions called that year the year of grief. The well-known opinion that Khadija was forty years old at the time of her marriage with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) is overwhelmingly strong in terms both direct and indirect evidence. When he bowed down, the young boy and the woman bowed, and when he stood up straight, they, too, did likewise. The number of children she bore b In Islamic history, true love was once possessed by the Prophet Muhammad and Khadijah bint Khuwaylid. Masha Allah, very well written and defended. She was the first woman to embrace Islam. Muhammad was monogamously married to her for 25 years. [46] Muhammad migrated to Yathrib (Medina) after Khadijah's death. A tradition with better credentials asserts that she was only three years older. The youngest of them was ‘Abdullah about whom the scholars differ on whether he was born before or after the proclamation of the message. [22], According to researchers,[who?] The statement of al-Zubair bin Bakkar comes with the mention of a woman who bore a child in her 60s. "He is Ali son of Abu Talib. She was 15 years older than Muhammad. Mus‘ab’s own work, one can see, has no comment on the age of Khadija. The difference between the numbers of narrations for the two opinions is very significant. Does the Qur’an say Torah was given for the Egyptians? [20], Khadijah proposed to Muhammad when he was 25 years old and she was 40 years old. 7 times. This is by no means impossible, but one would have thought it sufficiently unusual to merit comment; it is even the sort of thing that might well have been treated as miraculous. ولدت قبل الفيل بخمس عشرة سنة, Muhammad bin ‘Umar [al-Waqidi] narrated from Musa bin Shaiba, who narrated from ‘Umaira bint ‘Ubaidullah from Umm Sa’d bint Sa’d that Nafisa bint Munya said: … The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) married and he was twenty-five years old. This is especially true if we consider the following observation made by an expert of genealogies Al-Zubair bin Bakkar: قال: الزبير وسمعت علماءنا يقولون لا تحمل امرأة بعد ستين سنة إلا من قريش، ولا بعد خمسين إلا عربية. [20] Ibn Kathir attributes to al-Waqidi the opinion that Khadija was forty-five years old, al-Sira al-Nabawiya, (Beirut: Dar al-Ma’rifa, 1976) Vol.4, 581. This proves that it was not weird for an Arab or Qurayshi woman to bear children during her 40s or even 50s. Khadijah was the daughter of Khuwaylid ibn Asad, a leader of Quraysh tribe in Mecca, and a successful businesswoman in her own right. Hind bint Atiq. Some have referred to an alleged statement of Mus‘ab b. [20] Khadijah's uncle accepted the proposal, and the marriage took place. By the time she married the Holy Prophet sa, she was 40 years old. This was three years before the emigration of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to Madina. All but one of the narrations for the Forty-Year opinion come through Muhammad bin ‘Umar al-Waqidi who, though severely criticized,[15] is known for his extensive knowledge and is recognized as indispensable when it comes to historical accounts about the biographic details of the companions and the campaigns of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). 6867, [29] Ibn Sayyid al-Nas, ‘Uyun al-Athar, Beirut: Dar al-Qalam, 1993, Vol.1, 64, [30] Al-Kinani, Ibn Jam’ah, al-Mukhtasar al-Kabir fi Sirat al-Rasul, Amman: Dar al-Bashir, 1993, 91, [31] Al-Maqrizi, Ahmad bin ‘Ali, Imta’ al-Asma’, Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiya, 1999,  Vol.6, 29, [32] Al-Malti, Zain al-Din, Ghaya al-Sul fi Sira al-Rasul, Beirut: ‘Alam al-Kitab, 1988, 32, [33] Al-Zarqani, Sharh Mawahib al-Ladinya, Vol.4, 364, [34] Al-Hakim, Abu ‘Abdullah, al-Mustadrak, Vol.3, 201, [35] Dr. Yasir Qadhi’s video lecture, “Mothers of the Believers pt.3 | Khadija bint Khuwaylid (pt.1)” Time Slice 1:06:10 – 1:11:35, [36] Al-Baihaqi, Abu Bakr, Dala’il al-Nubuwwa, (Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiya, 1988) Vol.2, 70-71, [37] Al-Zubairi, Mus‘ab b. She and her daughter Fatimah are two of the most important female figures in Islam. According to most authorities Khadija had four daughters and two sons. Absence of the words under consideration in the actual work al-Hakim perused confirms our understanding that they cannot be attributed to Mus‘ab. I have heard the scholars saying, ‘No woman bears a child after sixty except if she is from the Quraysh nor does she bear one after fifty except if she is an Arab.[50]. Khadijah is often referred to by Muslims as "Mother of the Believers". Khadija had then reached sixty-five years of age; and it was also said that she had reached her fifties and this is more correct.[36]. There are four reports that establish the Forty-Year opinion. When he prostrated, they, too, prostrated." According to some Shi‘ite sources, Khadijah and Muhammad together had only one biological daughter, Fatimah. [21] Ibn Sa’d, Muhammad, Tabaqat al-Kubra, Vol.8, 13, [22] Al-Baladhuri, Ahmad bin Yahya, Ansab al-Ashraf, Beirut: Dar al-Fekr, 1996, Vol.1, 98, [23] Ibn Habib, al-Muhabbar, Beirut: Dar al-Afaq al-Jadida, n.d., 79, [24] Al-Maqdisi, al-Mutahhir, al-Bad‘ wa al-Tarikh, Port Said: Maktaba Thaqafa al-Diniya, n.d., Vol.4, 138 and Vol.5, 10, [25] Al-Mawardi, Abu al-Hasan, A’lam al-Nubuwwa, Beirut: Maktaba al-Hilal, 1409, 180, [26] Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr, al-Isti’ab fi Ma’rifa al-Ashab, Amman: Dar al-A’lam, 2002, 888 No. [52] Zaid was ten years younger to the Prophet (ﷺ) (Ibn Sa’d, Tabaqat Al-Kubra, Vol.3, 32) whereas Umm Ayman had nursed him (Al-Bukhari, Al-Sahih, Hadith 3737). Alleged Inconsistency of the Prophet: Marriage with Maimuna in Ihram, 4. Ibn Shahrashub quoted from al-Sayyid al-Murtada in al-Shafi and al-Shaykh al-Tusi in al-Talkhis that Khadijah was a virgin when she married Muhammad. More recently, popular speakers like Dr. Yasir Qadhi have suggested that her being twenty-eight at the time of the marriage is in fact the stronger opinion. [9][10], Khadijah became a very successful merchant. There are quite a few opinions transmitted about the age of Khadija at the time of her marriage with the Prophet. I think we all know, that Khadijah bint Khuwaylid was the first woman to be married to the Prophet Muhammad. Muhammad bin ‘Umar [al-Waqidi] said that al-Munzar bin Abdullah al-Hizami narrated from Musa bin ‘Uqba that Abi Habiba, the freed-slave of al-Zubair, said, I heard Hakim bin Hizam say: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) married Khadija when she was forty and he was twenty-five. The Prophet ( pbuh) was fifty when his wife Khadijah ( RA) died. Play this game to review Religious Studies. [16], For the Twenty-Eight-Year opinion, the narration from Ibn ‘Abbas comes through the notorious link “Abu Salih – Muhammad bin Sa’ib al-Kalbi” which falls in the “chain of lies.”[17]. Al-Baihaqi (d. 458/1066)) mentions: قال أبو عبد الله: قرأت بخط أبي بكر بن أبي خيثمة قال: حدثنا مصعب بن عبد الله الزبيري قال: أكبر ولد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم القاسم , ثم زينب، ثم عبد الله، ثم أم كلثوم، ثم فاطمة، ثم رقية قال مصعب: هم هكذا: الأول فالأول، ثم مات القاسم وهو أول ميت من ولده، مات بمكة، ثم مات عبد الله، ثم بلغت خديجة خمسا وستين سنة، ويقال خمسين سنة وهو أصح،, Abu ‘Abdullah [al-Hakim] said: I read in the writing of Abu Bakr b. Abi Khaithama that he said: Mus‘ab b. The evidence for the popular Forty-Year opinion is of two types. ‘Abdullah, this is not actually the case. [44], Another report Muhammad bin Ishaq said," Abu Talib and Khadija bint Khuwaylid died in the same year. فقال: كانت خديجة أسن منه بخمس عشرة, Muhammad bin ‘Umar [al-Waqidi] reported that Mughira bin Abdul Rahman al-Asadi narrated from his family, who said: We asked Hakim bin Hizam who was older, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) or Khadija? 463/1071). Khuwaylid agreed, and Khadijah, who was forty years old, was carried in procession to the house of her husband Muhammad (a.s.) who was twenty-five years old then. Abd-Allah was known as at-Tayyib ("the Good") and at-Tahir ("the Pure") because he was born after Muhammad was declared a prophet by the Angel Gabriel as a direct message from Allah. "He is Muhammad ibn Abdullah, my nephew. They attacked, imprisoned and beat the Muslims, who sometimes went for days without food or drink. Even after Khadija’s death, the Prophet (may the blessings and peace of God be upon him) remembered her often, as she was the mother of his children and his rock from the get-go. In the past century, however, we have seen people using rationalist arguments based on biological contentions to undermine the Forty-Year opinion and highlight the other opinions. Qur’an Preservation Efforts During the Prophet’s Lifetime. This incident is included in the books of both Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Al-Tirmidhi, each detailing it in his own Ṣaḥīḥ. Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, commonly known as Khadija, was the first wife and first follower of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. [19] According to some sources, it was Khadijah's cousin, Waraka ibn Nawfal, who confirmed Muhammad's prophethood soon afterwards.[36]. The True Mother of Believers – Hazrat Khadijah (s.a.) (Serat Online), The Prophet's (PBUH) Marriage to Khadijah (Ahmed El-Kadi). Muhammad ibn Sa‘d states: قال: أخبرنا محمد بن عمر بن واقد الأسلمي. As it is seen, our Holy Prophet (PBUH) married this elderly woman only due to the devotion and loyalty she had towards Allah and her faith and through such means, he was taking her under his protection and allowing her to attain the honor of being “a mother of the believers.” 1. Among those who have popularized this opinion are Dr. Hamidullah and Dr. Akram Diya al-‘Umri. Even if, as one of Ibn Sa’d’s authorities says, they came at regular yearly intervals, that would make her forty-eight before the last was born. This wiki answer mentions, that Khadija (RA) the business women and first wife of the prophet could be 28 years old, not 40 at the time of her marriage with the prophet. Moreover, al-Waqidi (d. 207/737) reports: حدثنا محمد بن عبد الله، عن الزهري، قال: وحدثنا كثير بن زيد، عن المطلب بن عبد الله بن حنطب قالا: كانت أول امرأة تزوجها رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قبل النبوة خديجة بنت خويلد … ثم تزوجها رسول الله – صلى الله عليه وسلم – وهو يومئذ ابن خمس وعشرين سنة وخديجة ابنة أربعين سنة, Muhammad bin ‘Abdullah narrated to us from al-Zuhri and Kathir bin Zaid who narrated to us from al-Muttalib bin Abdullah bin Hantab: The first wife of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) before the pronouncement of the Prophethood was Khadija bint Khuwaylid.… Then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) married her when he was twenty-five and Khadija was forty years old.[6]. [15], She sent one of her servants, Maysarah, to assist him. He said: Khadija was fifteen years older to him.[4]. Were the Wives of the Prophet Dissatisfied with Him? Khadijah bint Khuwailid, May Allah be pleased with her DRAFT. 1. [6], Khadijah's mother, Fatima bint Za'idah, who died around AD 575,[7] was a member of the Amir ibn Luayy clan of the Quraysh[8] and a third cousin of Muhammad's mother. However, it is untenable as it is not substantiated by any chain of narrators or a reference to an earlier work. [17], Their first son was Qasim, who died after his third birthday[33][34] (hence Muhammad's kunya Abu Qasim). [16] It is disputed whether it was Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib, Abu Talib, or both who accompanied Muhammad on this errand. Among the orientalists, Montgomery Watt (d. 2006) says: The age of Khadijah has perhaps been exaggerated. [45] Hamidullah, Dr., Le Prophete de l’Islam: Sa Vie et Son Ouvre/ The Life and Work of the Prophet of Islam, Translated by Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi, New Delhi: Adam Publishers, 2007, 49. It is generally agreed among historians, both Muslim and orientalist, that at the time of her marriage with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) – may the peace and blessings of Almighty Allah be upon him – his first wife, Khadija, was forty years old. [54] The latest estimate is that he was born a year after the proclamation of the message when the Prophet (ﷺ) was forty-one and Khadija fifty-six. Mus‘ab said: They were in this order. [40] Khadijah continued to maintain the community until the boycott was lifted in late 619 or early 620. Living in this country, I have personally seen women having 10-12 children and a good majority of them were born after the woman crossed 40. In order to submit a comment to this post, please write this code along with your comment: 60d8df3e72b1ed15fc9e95ec059beb6b, 1. However, some scholars report she was less than this, with opinions ranging from 28 to mid-30s. Khadija was two years older to me. ‘Abdullah al-Zubairi (d. 236/851) suggesting that he too preferred the Twenty-Eight opinion. With the onset of modernity, the biographic details of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) have come under a lot of scrutiny along with, in some cases, attempts at revisionism. وكانت خديجة أسن مني بسنتين. 70% average accuracy. At that time she was a very rich widow. She had died three years before I married the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. The answer came again in the negative, to which Abbas said, "She is Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, my nephew's wife." One such controversy is surrounding the age of Khadija, the first wife of the Prophet, at the time of her marriage to him. 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