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Khadīja bint Khuwaylid

خديجة بنت خويلد

al-Ṭāhira (the Pure), umm al-muʾminīn (Mother of the Believers)

555 CE – 619 CE(aged ~64) Banū Asad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā

First wife of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and mother of all his children except Ibrāhīm. A wealthy and respected widow of Quraysh who employed Muhammad ﷺ as her trade agent and proposed marriage to him when she was 40 and he was 25 (c. 595 CE). The first person to accept Islam in 610 CE. The Prophet ﷺ never married another woman during her lifetime. She bore him 6 children: al-Qāsim, Zaynab, Ruqayya, Umm Kulthūm, Fāṭima, and Abdullāh (al-Ṭāhir / al-Ṭayyib). Died in the "Year of Sorrow" (ʿām al-ḥuzn, 619 CE), the same year as Abū Ṭālib. The Prophet ﷺ said of her: "By Allah, He has not given me anyone better than her. She believed in me when people disbelieved..." and Jibrīl conveyed Allah's greetings to her and gave her the news of a palace in Paradise.

Significance

First wife of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and mother of all his children except Ibrāhīm. A wealthy and respected widow of Quraysh who employed Muhammad ﷺ as her trade agent and proposed marriage to him when she was 40 and he was 25 (c. 595 CE). The first person to accept Islam in 610 CE. The Prophet ﷺ never married another woman during her lifetime. She bore him 6 children: al-Qāsim, Zaynab, Ruqayya, Umm Kulthūm, Fāṭima, and Abdullāh (al-Ṭāhir / al-Ṭayyib). Died in the "Year of Sorrow" (ʿām al-ḥuzn, 619 CE), the same year as Abū Ṭālib. The Prophet ﷺ said of her: "By Allah, He has not given me anyone better than her. She believed in me when people disbelieved..." and Jibrīl conveyed Allah's greetings to her and gave her the news of a palace in Paradise.
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Father

Khuwaylid ibn Asad (خويلد بن أسد)

Children (6)

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