As indicated by various sources, Khadijah was brought into the world in 565 A.D. furthermore, passed on in 620, at 55 years old, yet a few students of history say that she kicks the bucket ten years after the fact. Khadijah's mom, who passed on around 575 A.D., was Fatima girl of Za'ida ibn al-Asam of Banu 'Amir ibn Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib, additionally a far off relative of Prophet Muhammad (ص). Khadijah's dad, who kicked the bucket around 585 A.D., had a place with the Abd al-'Uzza group of the clan of Quraish. In the same way as other Quraishis, he was a vendor, an effective money manager whose tremendous riches and business abilities were acquired by Khadijah and whom the last prevailed with regards to faring with the family's huge abundance. It is said that when Quraish's exchange parades accumulated to set out upon their extensive and exhausting excursion either to Syria throughout the mid year or to Yemen throughout the colder time of year, Khadijah's convoy rose to the bands of any remaining brokers of Quraish set up.
Old and extremely uncommon photograph showing Khadijah's 3-story house where the Prophet (ﺹ) lived and Fatima (ع) brought into the world preceding its destruction in 1413 A.H./1992 A.D. by the Saudi government to grow the Sacred Haram lodging the Ka'ba Albeit the general public where Khadijah was conceived was frightfully male high and mighty, Khadijah acquired two titles: Ameerat Quraish, Princess of Quraish, and at-Tahira, the Pure One, because of her flawless character and idealistic person, also her decent drop. She used to take care of and dress poor people, help her family members monetarily, and even accommodate the marriage of those of her kinfolk who couldn't in any case have had intends to wed.
By 585 A.D., Khadijah was left a vagrant. Notwithstanding that, and in the wake of having hitched twice__and twice lost her better half to the desolating battles with which Arabia was afflicted__, she had no psyche to wed a third time however she was looked for marriage by numerous good and exceptionally regarded men of the Arabian promontory all through which she was very renowned because of her transactions.
She just despised the possibility of being bereft for a third time frame. Her first spouse was "Abu (father of) Halah", specifically Hind ibn Zar'ah, who had a place with Banu 'Adiyy, and the second was Ateeq ibn 'Aa'ith. The two men had a place with Banu Makhzoom. By her first spouse, she brought forth a child who was named after his dad, Hind, and who came to be one of the best sahabis (partners of the Holy Prophet). He took an interest in the two clashes of Badr and Uhud, and he is additionally well known for depicting the Prophet's body.
He was martyred during the Battle of the Camel where he battled in favor of Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (ع), albeit a few antiquarians say that he kicked the bucket in Basra. All life story accounts portray Hind as a straightforward speaker, a man of honorableness and liberality, and one who took outrageous alert while citing the Messenger of Allah (ص). Other than him, Khadijah conceived an offspring by Abu Halah to two different children: at-Tahir, and, obviously, Halah, who isn't very notable to students of history regardless of the way that his dad is nicknamed after him.
Who were Khadijah's youngsters by her subsequent spouse? This is another discussion that rotates around different girls or step-little girls of the Prophet (ص) other than Fatima (ع). These girls, sequentially organized, are: Zainab, Ruqayya, and Ummu Kulthoom. A few students of history say that these were Khadijah's little girls by her subsequent spouse, though others demand they were her little girls by Muhammad (ص). The principal see is held by Sayyid Safdar Husayn in his book The Early History of Islam where he puts together his decision with respect to the substance of al-Sayyuti's popular work Tarikh al-Khulafa wal Muluk (history of the caliphs and lords; don't mistake it for Tabari's Tarikh; the two books bear a similar title, and this isn't exceptional in any way). We trust a portion of our Muslim sisters who read this text will be enticed to investigate this subject. Here is a concise record of Khadijah's girls:
Zainab, their most established, was brought into the world before the prophetic mission and was hitched to Abul-'As ibn al-Rabee'. She had acknowledged Islam before her significant other, and she partook in the relocation from Mecca to Medina. She passed on from the get-go in 8 A.H. (630 A.D.) and was covered in Jannatul Baqee' where her grave can in any case be seen resisting the progression of time. Ruqayya and Ummu Kulthoom wedded two of Abu Lahab's children. Abu Lahab, one of the Prophet's eleven uncles, determinedly and straightforwardly dismissed his nephew's proclaiming; along these lines, he was denounced in the Mecci Chapter 111 of the Holy Qur'an, a part named after him.
'Uthman then, at that point, hitched her sister, Ummu Kulthoom, in Rabi' al-Awwal of the following (third) Hijri year (September of 624 A.D.). Ummu Kulthoom lived with her better half for around six years prior to passing on in 9 A.H. (630 A.D.), leaving no youngsters. A few Muslims recount an alternate story, guaranteeing that in spite of the fact that Khadijah was a lot more seasoned than the Prophet (ﺹ), she was as yet a virgin… , and doubtlessly Allah knows. These Muslims are reminded that the Prophet wedded just one single virgin spouse: Lady 'Aisha little girl of first caliph Abu Bakr. Any remaining spouses were recently hitched. What's going on with that? Prophet Sulayman (Solomon) wedded a widow, as well, thus did numerous different prophets and couriers of Allah.
One specific quality in Khadijah was very fascinating, presumably more so than any of her different characteristics referenced above: She, in contrast to her kin, never had faith in nor adored symbols. A tiny number of Christians and Jews lived in Mecca at that point and a genuinely huge number of Jews lived in Medina in braced networks, little and huge, the biggest being Khaybar. Waraqah ibn Nawfal, one of Khadijah's cousins (some say he was her uncle), had accepted Christianity and was a devout priest who trusted in the Unity of the Almighty, similarly as, that is, before the idea of the Trinity crawled into the Christian confidence, augmenting the philosophical contrasts among the professors in Christ (ع).
For just about 400 years, relatively few individuals among the Christians had even known about the Trinity. That Council of Nicaea, which was really boycotted by numerous Christian holy places all throughout the planet, was called for by the Byzantine head Constantine I (288 - 337 A.D.), or Constantine the Great, who fabricated the now Turkish city Constantinople in 330 A.D. to commit it to Jesus' mom, Virgin Mary. Constantine's unbiased behind holding the Nicaea Conference was to resolve the questions among different Christian groups regarding what established Christianity and what didn't, however the said Conference made a larger number of issues than it settled. It was boycotted by various Christian groups that didn't underwrite its goal.
In particular, Mecca housed the Ka'ba, the cubic "Place of God" which has consistently been looked for journey and which used to be circumnavigated by bare polytheist "travelers" who kept their objects of worship, numbering 360 little and huge, male and female, inside it and on its rooftop top. Among those symbols was one for Abraham and one more for Ishmael, each conveying heavenly bolts in his grasp. Hubal, a tremendous symbol looking like a man, was given as a gift by the Moabites of Syria to the tribesmen of Khuza'ah, and it was Mecca's main icon.
Muhammad (ص) didn't have any useful business experience, yet he had twice went with his uncle, Abu Talib, on his exchange trips and definitely saw how he exchanged, dealt, purchased and sold and directed business. All things considered, individuals of Quraish were renowned for their contribution in exchange more than in some other calling. It was normal to employ a specialist who didn't have a related knowledge; thus, Khadijah chose to give Muhammad (ص) a possibility. He was just 25 years of age.
Khadijah sent Muhammad (ص) word through Khazimah ibn Hakim, one of her family members, offering him twice as much commission as she normally offered her representatives to exchange for her sake. She likewise gave him one of her workers, Maysarah, who was youthful, splendid, and gifted, to help him and be his accountant. She additionally believed Maysarah's record in regards to her new representative's direct, a record which was generally glaring, to be sure one which urged her to leave her demand never to wed again.
Prior to setting out on his first outing as a finance manager addressing Khadijah, Muhammad (ص) met with his uncles for somewhat late briefings and discussions, then, at that point, he set out on the desert street going through Wadi al-Qura, Midian, and Diyar Thamud, places with which he was recognizable in light of having been there at twelve years old in the organization of his uncle, Abu Talib, father of his cousin and later child in-law Ali (ﻉ). He proceeded with the extended excursion till he arrived at Busra (or Bostra) on the roadway to the old city of Damascus after around one month. It was then the capital of Hawran, one of the southeastern parts of the region of Damascus arranged north of the Balqa'.
To researchers of exemplary writing, Hawran is known by its Greek name Auranitis, and it is depicted exhaustively by Yaqut al-Hamawi, Abul-Faraj al-Isfahani, and others. Bedouin exchange bands used to go there regularly and even past it to Damascus and Gaza, and not many made it right to the Mediterranean shores to empty their valuable cargoes of Chinese paper and silk materials headed for Europe.
What things did Muhammad (ص) convey with him to Busra, and what things did he purchase from that point? Meccans were not known to be talented specialists, nor did they dominate in any calling other than exchange, however youthful Muhammad (ص) might have conveyed with him a freight of stows away, raisins, fragrances, dried dates, light weight woven things, presumably silver bars, and doubtlessly a few spices. He purchased what he was told by his manager to purchase: these things might have included produced merchandise, garments, a couple of extravagance things to offer to well off Meccans, and perhaps some family products.
Gold and silver monetary forms acknowledged in Mecca included Roman, Persian, and Indian coins, for Arabs during those occasions, including the people who were considerably more modern than the ones among whom Muhammad (ص) grew up, like the Arabs of the southern piece of Arabia (Yemen, Hadramout, and so forth), didn't have their very own money; in this way, trade was more normal than cash. The primary Arab Islamic cash, incidentally, was struck in Damascus by the Umayyad ruler Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (697-698 A.D.) in 78 A.H. (697 A.D.), 36 years after the foundation of the Umayyad line (661-750).
The time Muhammad (ﺹ) remained in Busra was close to two or three months during which he met numerous Christians and Jews and saw the religious contrasts among the significant Christian organizations that prompted the disassociation of the Copts, the Syrian (Chaldean) Nestorian, and the Armenian Christians from the primary places of worship of Antioch (Antakiya), Rome, and Egyptian Alexandria. Such disagreements and contrasts of religious perspectives gave Muhammad (ص) with a lot of something to think about; he examined upon them an incredible arrangement. He was seen once by Nestor the priest sitting in the shade of a tree as trains entered the edges of Busra, not a long way from the priest's little religious community. "Who is the man underneath that tree?" asked Nestor of Maysarah. "A man of Quraish," Maysarah replied, adding, "of individuals [the Hashemites] who have guardianship of the Sanctuary (the Ka'ba)." "As a matter of fact a Prophet is sitting underneath that tree," said Nestor who had noticed a portion of the signs demonstrative of Prophethood: two holy messengers (or, as per different reports, two little mists) were concealing Muhammad (ص) from the abusive warmth of the sun. "Is there a gleam, a slight redness, around his eyes that never leaves behind him?" Nestor asked Maysarah. At the point when the last replied in the confirmed, Nestor said, "He most certainly is the absolute last Prophet; congrats to whoever puts stock in him."
One of Muhammad's perceptions when he was in that Syrian city was the recorded reality that a quarrel was fermenting between the Persian and Roman realms, each competing for authority over Arabia's rich bow. Without a doubt, such a perception was very precise, for after a couple of years, a conflict broke out between the then mightiest countries on earth that finished with the Romans losing it, as the Holy Qur'an advises us in Chapter 30 (The Romans), which was uncovered in 7 A.H./615-16 A.D., a couple of months after the fall of Jerusalem to the Persians, just to win in a progressive one. Just four years preceding that date, the Persians had scored a general triumph over the Christians, spreading their authority over Aleppo, Antioch, and even Damascus. Muhammad (ص) was worried about both of these two domains expanding its power over the land occupied by Muhammad's wildly free Pagan individuals.
The deficiency of Jerusalem, origin of Christ, Jesus child of Mary (ع), was a weighty hit to the notoriety of Christianity. Most Persians were then after Zoroastrianism, a belief presented in the sixth century before Christ by Zoroaster (628-551 B.C.), otherwise called Zarathustra, whose disciples are depicted as admirers of the "fire," the heavenly fire. "Persia," thus, signified "the place that is known for the admirers of the fire, the holy fire."
Cutting edge Iran used to be known as "Aryana," place where there is the Aryan countries and clans. Iranians, yet in addition Kurds, and even Germans, prided in being Aryans, (Caucasian) Nordics or speakers of an Indo-European tongue. A few Persians had changed over to Christianity as we probably are aware from Salman al-Farisi who was one such follower till he fell in bondage, sold in Mecca and liberated to be one of the most prestige and esteemed sahabis and storytellers of hadith in Islamic history, to such an extent that the Prophet of Islam (ص) said, "Salman is one of us, we Ahl al-Bayt (People of the Household of Prophethood)."
The conflict alluded to above was between the then Byzantine (Eastern Roman) head Heraclius (575 - 641 A.D.) and the Persian ruler Khusrau (Khosrow) Parwiz (Parviz) or Chosroes II (d. 628 A.D.). It was one of many conflicts in which those strong countries were involved and which proceeded for a long time. However the hands of Divine Providence were at that point caught up with clearing the way for Islam: The crash between the two realms made ready for a definitive annihilation of the antiquated Persian domain and in Islam setting root in that significant region of the planet.
Additionally, Muhammad's (and, normally, Khadijah's) posterity came to wed women who were brought up at Persian just as Roman royal residences. Imam Husain ibn Ali ibn Abu Talib (ع), Muhammad's grandson and our Third Holy Imam, hitched the little girl of the last Persian sovereign Jazdagird (Yazdegerd) III child of Shahryar and grandson of this equivalent Khusrau II. Jazdagerd managed Persia from 632-651 A.D. what's more, lost the Battle of Qadisiyya to the Muslim powers in 636, subsequently finishing the 427-year rule of the Sassanians which stretched out from 224 A.D. to 651 A.D. Having been crushed, he escaped for Media in northwestern Iran, country of Persian Mede tribesmen, and from that point to Merv, an old Central Asian city close to advanced Mary in Turkmenistan (until as of late one of the republics of the Soviet Union), where he was killed by a mill operator. The killed head left two little girls who, during their endeavor to circumvent, following the homicide of their dad, were gotten and sold as slaves.
One of them, Shah-Zenan, wound up wedding our Third Holy Imam Husain ibn Ali ibn Abu Talib (ع), though her sister wedded the fame researcher and acclaimed muhaddith (traditionist) Muhammad child of the main Muslim caliph Abu Bakr. Shah-Zenan was granted a VIP treatment and was given another name in her own Persian native language: Shahr Banu, which signifies "special lady of the women of the city." The marriage among her and Imam Husain (ع) created our Fourth Holy Imam (Zainul-Abidin, or al-Sajjad) Ali ibn al-Husain ibn Ali ibn Abu Talib (ع). When he was gone, Khadijah looked for the guidance of a companion of hers named Nufaysa little girl of Umayyah. The last presented to move toward him for her sake and, if conceivable, organize a marriage between them. Nufaysa came to Muhammad (ص) and asked him for what valid reason he had not hitched at this point. "I have no way to wed," he replied. "Be that as it may, in case you were given the means," she said, "and in case you were bidden to a partnership where there is excellence, riches, honorability and wealth, would you not then assent?!" "Who is she?!" he enthusiastically asked. "Khadijah," said Nufaysa. "Also, how is it possible that such would a marriage be mine?!" he inquired. "Pass on that to me!" was her reply. "As far as concerns me," he said, "I'm willing." Nufaysa got back with these happy greetings to Khadijah who then, at that point, reached out to Muhammad (ص) requesting that he go to her. At the point when he came, she said to him:
O child of my uncle! I love you for your family relationship with me, and for that you are ever in the middle, not being a hardliner among individuals for this or for that. Furthermore, I love you for your dependability, and for the excellence of your person and the reality of your discourse.
Then, at that point, she offered herself in union with him, and they concurred that he ought to address his uncles and she would address her uncle, 'Amr child of Asad, since her dad had kicked the bucket. It was Hamzah, in spite of being somewhat youthful, whom the Hashemites assigned to address them on this marriage event, since he was most firmly identified with them through the family of Asad; his sister, Safiyya, had quite recently hitched Khadijah's sibling, 'Awwam. It was Abu Talib, Muhammad's uncle, who conveyed the marriage message saying,
All recognition is because of Allah Who has made us the offspring of Ibrahim (Abraham), the seed of Isma'eel (Ishmael), the relatives of Ma'ad, the substance of Mudar, and Who made us the overseers of His House and the workers of its hallowed areas, making for us a House looked for journey and a sanctuary of safety, and He additionally gave us authority over individuals. This nephew of mine, Muhammad (ص), couldn't measure up to some other man: If you contrast his abundance and that of others, you won't see him a man of riches, for abundance is an evaporating shadow and something flighty. Muhammad (ص) is a man whose genealogy all of you know, and he has looked for Khadijah girl of Khuwaylid for marriage, offering her such-and-such of the dower of my own abundance.
Nawfal then, at that point, stood and said,
All applause is because of Allah Who has made us similarly as you have referenced and favored us over those whom you have demonstrated, for we, for sure, are the experts of Arabs and their chiefs, and all of you are deserving of this (obligation of marriage). The clan (Quraish) doesn't keep any from getting your benefits, nor does any other person debate your grandiose status and notoriety. Also, we, besides, wish to be joined to your rope; in this way, demonstrate the veracity of my words, O individuals of Quraish! I have given Khadijah girl of Khuwaylid in union with Muhammad ibn Abdullah for the dower of 400 dinars.
Then, at that point, Nawfal stopped, whereupon Abu Talib said to him, "I wished her uncle had gone along with you (in offering this expression)." Hearing that, Khadijah's uncle stood and said, "Give testimony, men of Quraish, that I have given Khadijah girl of Khuwaylid in union with Muhammad ibn Abdullah."
These subtleties and more are recorded in Ibn Hisham's Seera. After his marriage, Muhammad (ص) moved from his uncle's home to live with his significant other in her home which remained at the smiths' market, a rear entryway fanning out of metropolitan Mecca's long fundamental marketplace, behind the mas'a, where the travelers play out the seven circles during the hajj or 'umra.
In that house Fatima (ع) was conceived and the disclosure dropped upon the Messenger of Allah (ص) commonly. This house, just as the one in which the Prophet of Islam (ص) was conceived (which stood roughly 50 meters northwards), were both annihilated by the uninformed and over the top Wahhabi leaders of Saudi Arabia in 1413 A.H./1993 A.D.... The grave locales of numerous relatives and sidekicks of the Holy Prophet (ص) were totally wrecked by similar Wahhabis in 1343 A.H./1924 A.D. against the wish and in spite of the impugning of the followers of any remaining Muslim groups and ways of thinking around the world.
The marriage was an exceptionally glad one, and it created a woman who was one of the four ideal ladies in all the historical backdrop of humankind: Fatima girl of Muhammad (ص). Prior to her, Qasim and Abdullah were conceived, yet the two of them passed on at earliest stages.
When Khadijah got hitched, she was a serious affluent woman, so rich that she wanted to continue exchanging and expanding her abundance; all things being equal, she chose to resign and partake in an agreeable existence with her better half who, on his part, favored a plain life to that of cash making.
The Messenger of Allah (ص) wanted to amass abundance; that was not the reason for which he, harmony and favors of Allah with him and his offspring, was made. He was made to be the friend in need of humanity from the haziness of obliviousness, icon love, polytheism, wretchedness, neediness, treachery, abuse, and unethical behavior. He particularly wanted to think, however his reflection developed his sadness at seeing his general public sunk so low in corruption, rebellion, and the shortfall of any kind of security for the people who were feeble and mistreated.
Khadijah's time of bliss kept going close to 15 years after which her significant other, presently the Messenger of Allah (ص), began his main goal to welcome individuals to the Oneness of God, to correspondence among people, and to a finish to the indecencies of the day. Muhammad (ص) was forty years of age when the main refrains of the Holy Qur'an were uncovered to him. They were the principal stanzas of Surat al-Alaq (section 96), and they were uncovered during the long stretch of Ramadan 13 years before the Hijra, at the cavern of Hira in Jabal al-Noor (the heap of light), his #1 spot for confinement and reflection, a spot which is presently visited by numerous travelers. Muhammad (ص) returned home desolate, significantly puzzled, profoundly intrigued by seeing chief heavenly messenger Gabriel and by the profundity of importance suggested in those lovely words:
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Announce (or read)! In the Name of your Lord and Cherisher who made (everything). (He) made man of a (simple) coagulation of hardened blood. Broadcast! What's more, your Lord is the Most Bountiful Who educated (the utilization of) the pen, Who instructed man what he knew not... (Qur'an, 96:1-5)
He felt hot, so he requested to be wrapped and, when he felt much improved, he described what he had seen and heard to his steadfast and strong spouse. "By Allah," Khadijah said, "Allah will never expose you to any indignity..., for you generally keep up with your binds with those of your family, and you are consistently liberal in giving. You are industrious, and you look for what others view as out of reach. You cool the eyes of your visitor, and you loan your help to the individuals who look for equity and change. Stay firm, O cousin, for by Allah I realize that He won't manage you with the exception of most delightfully, and I affirm that you are the anticipated Prophet in this country, and your time, if Allah wills, has come."
After a brief time, Khadijah disclosed to her significant other with regards to the forecast of the Syrian priest Buhayra in regards to Muhammed's Prophethood, and about her discourse with both her worker Maysarah, who had educated her regarding what Bahirah (or Buhayrah) had said, and with her cousin Waraqah ibn Nawfal. She then, at that point, went with her significant other to Waraqah's home to portray the entire episode. "Allow me to hear it in a way that would sound natural to you," Nawfal said to Muhammad (ص), adding, "O respectable expert!" Having heard the Prophet's words, Nawfal took as much time as is needed to choose his words cautiously; he said, "By Allah, this is the expectation which had been passed on to Moses (ع) and with which the Children of Israel are recognizable! [Moses] had said: 'O how I wish I could be available when Muhammad (ص) is assigned with Prophethood to help his central goal and to help him!' It was only natural for Khadijah to receive her share of the harassment meted to him by none other than those who, not long ago, used to call him as-Sadiq, al-Amin. Khadijah did not hesitate to embrace Islam at all, knowing that her husband could not have put forth any false claim.
Yahya ibn `Afeef is quoted as saying that he once came, during the jahiliyya (the period preceding the advent of Islam), to Mecca to be hosted by al-Abbas ibn Abdul-Muttalib, one of the Prophet's uncles mentioned above. "When the sun started rising," says he, "I saw a man who came out of a place not far from us, faced the Ka`ba and started performing his prayers.
He hardly started before being joined by a young boy who stood on his right side, then by a woman who stood behind them. When he bowed down, the young boy and the woman bowed, and when he stood up straight, they, too, did likewise. When he prostrated, they, too, prostrated." Then he expressed his amazement at that, saying to al-Abbas: "This is quite strange, O Abbas!" "Is it, really?" retorted al-Abbas. "Do you know who he is?" al-Abbas asked his guest who answered in the negative. "He is Muhammadibn Abdullah, my nephew. Do you know who the young boy is?" asked he again. "No, indeed," answered the guest. "He is Ali son of Abu Talib. Do you know who the woman is?" The answer came again in the negative, to which al-Abbas said, "She is Khadijah daughter of Khuwaylid, my nephew's wife." This incident is included in the books of both Imam Ahmad and al-Tirmithi, each detailing it in his own Sahih book. And she bore patiently in the face of persecution to which her revered husband and his small band of believers were exposed at the hands of the polytheists and aristocrats of Quraish, sacrificing her vast wealth to promote Islam, seeking Allah's Pleasure.
Among Khadijah's merits was her being one of the four most perfect of all women of mankind, the other three being: Fatima (ع) daughter of Muhammad (ص), Maryam bint `Umran (Mary daughter of Amram), mother of Christ (ع) and niece of prophet Zakariyya (Zacharias) and Ishba (Elizabeth), and `Asiya daughter of Muzahim, wife of Pharaoh. Prophet Zakariyya, as the reader knows, was the father of Yahya (John the Baptist), the latter being only a few months older than prophet Jesus (ع).
The Prophet of Islam (ص) used to talk about Khadijah quite often after her demise, so much so that his youngest wife, Ayisha daughter of Abu Bakr, felt extremely jealous and said to him, "... But she was only an old woman with red eyes, and Allah has compensated you with a better and younger wife (meaning herself)." This caused him (ص) to be very indignant, so he said, "No, indeed; He has not compensated me with someone better than her. She believed in me when all others disbelieved; she held me truthful when others called me a liar; she sheltered me when others abandoned me; she comforted me when others shunned me; and Allah granted me children by her while depriving me of children by other women."
Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Abu Hatim, al-Dulabi, al-Tabari, and many others, all quote Ayisha as saying: "One day, the Messenger of Allah (ص) mentioned Khadijah affectionately, so I was carried away by jealousy and said about her what I should not have said. It was then that his face changed color in a way I never saw it change except when he (ص) was receiving revelation, so I realized what I had done and felt overwhelmed by regret to the extent that I could not help uttering these words: `O Lord! If You remove the anger of Your Messenger right now, I pledge not to ever speak ill of her as long as I live.' Having seen that, he forgave me and narrated to me some of her merits."
Both Muslim and Bukhari indicate in their respective Sahih books that among Khadijah's merits was the fact that the Lord of Dignity ordered Jibraeel (Gabriel), peace with him, to convey His regards to her. Gabriel said to Muhammad (ص): "O Muhammed! Khadijah is bringing you a bowl of food; when she comes to you, tell her that her Lord greets her, and convey my greeting, too, to her." When he (ص) did so, she said: "O Allah! You are the Peace, and is the source of all peace, to you peace returns, Praised and Exalted are You, O One with the Greatness and Honor, and may with Gabriel be peace."
اللهم أنت السلام و منك السلام و اليك يرجع السلام، تباركت و تعاليت يا ذا الجلال و الاكرام، و على جبرائيل السلام
Lord! You are the peace; from you is the peace, and to you returns the peace; Praised and Exalted are You, O One with all the Greatness and Honors
Khadijah died of an attack of fever on the tenth or eleventh day of the month of Ramadan, ten years after the start of the Prophetic mission (in the year 619 A.D.), 24 years after her marriage with Muhammad (ص), and she was buried at Hajun in the outskirts of Mecca. The Messenger of Allah (ص) dug her grave and buried her... Funeral prayers (salat al janaza) had not yet been mandated in Islam. It is reported that by the time she died, her entire wealth had already been spent to promote Islam; she left not a single gold dinar nor a single silver dirham, nor anything more or less...
يَا أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ارْجِعِي إِلَى رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً، فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي
O soul that are at rest! Return to your Lord, well-pleased (with Him), well-pleasing (Him), so enter among My servants, and enter into My garden. (Qur'an, 89:27-30)
(This paper about Khadijah al-Kubra, may the Almighty reward her on behalf of the Muslim umma from the first generations to the last, was written and widely circulated by myself, author of this book, on May 12, 1994, when I was living in Falls Church, Virginia, U.S.A. You are free to circulate it or post it on your Internet’s web site so you may earn rewards from the Almighty Who loves scholars and scholarship and those who promote knowledge about His Prophets and Messengers, peace and blessings with them all.)
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