Khadija bint Khuwaylid

Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
Mother of the Believers
خَدِيجَة بِنْت خُوَيْلِد
Bornc. 554
Makkah, Hejaz, Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia)
Died10 Ramadan BH 3[1]
c. 619(619-00-00) (aged 64–65)
Makkah
Resting placeJannat al-Mu'alla, Makkah
Other namesKhadīja al-Kubra
Known forFirst wife of Muhammad
Title
  • Ameerat-Quraysh
  • al-Tahirah
SpouseMuhammad ibn Abdullah
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Parents
RelativesGrandsons:
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Cousin:
FamilyBanu Asad (by birth)
Ahl al-Bayt (by marriage)

Khadijah bint Khuwaylid (Arabic: خَدِيجَة بِنْت خُوَيْلِد, romanized: Khadīja bint Khuwaylid, c. 554[2] – November 619) was the first wife and the first follower of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. 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 figure as one of the four 'ladies of heaven', alongside her daughter Fatimah bint Muhammad, Asiya the wife of the Pharaoh, and Mary, mother of Jesus. Muhammad was married to her for 25 years.

Ancestors of Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife, Khadija bint Khuwaylid

Khadija's mother, Fatima bint Za'idah, who died in 575,[3] was a member of the Amir ibn Luayy clan of the Quraysh[4] and a 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. 585 in the Sacrilegious War, but according to others, he was still alive when Khadija married Muhammad in 595.[8][9] Khuwaylid also had a sister named Ume Habib binte Asad.[10]

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  5. ^ Haq, S.M. Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, vol. 1. p. 54.
  6. ^ The Women of Madina. Ta-Ha Publishers. p. 9.
  7. ^ Benedikt, Koehler (2014). Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism. Lexington Books.
  8. ^ Guillaume. The Life of Muhammad. Oxford. p. 83.
  9. ^ Muhammad ibn Saad, Tabaqat vol. 1. Translated by Haq, S. M. Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, pp. 148–149. Delhi: Kitab Bhavan.
  10. ^ Muhammad ibn Saad, Tabaqat vol. 1. Translated by Haq, S. M. Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, p. 54. Delhi: Kitab Bhavan.