Khadija bint Khuwaylid
Khadijah bint Chuwailid (Arabic خديجة بنت خويلد, DMG Ḫadīǧa bint Ḫuwaylid ) (c. 555, † 619 ) was the first wife of Muhammad and the only one with whom he lived in monogamy.
Life
Khadijah was heir to a caravanserai and a trading business in Mecca and daughter of Chuwailid from the tribe of Quraish. She was a widow and married twice before her marriage to Muhammad. From this marriage they had several children. As an entrepreneur and agent, she possessed freely about their rich assets. Muhammad led on their behalf a caravan to Syria, and was a partaker in their stores. His commercial success and his high reputation in Mecca contributed to the fact that they eventually offered him marriage. About advertising and wedding there are a vivid account of al - Bayhaqi from the 11th century. Khadija had at least five children with Mohammed. From the hadiths are four daughters: Fatima, Ruqaiya, Umm Kulthum and Zaynab known. In addition, there were the sons Qasim and Abdullah, who died in childhood.
The Islamic tradition is Khadijah appears as a caring wife and certifies their large participation in the religious experiences of her husband. Ibn Hisham reported that they Hira ʾ made great concern at his first experience of revelation on the mountain and messengers sent out after him, but he stayed away unusually long time. After the experience he had gone immediately to her, set closely to her side and told her about the scary encounter with the angel, whereupon they made him encouragement and straightened him. Immediately afterwards she was to her cousin Waraqa ibn Nawfal, one with the " Scriptures" familiar Christians, hastened the her confirmed that Muhammad is the expected Prophet of his people.
To find out if Mohammed is visited by his revelations from an angel or a dangerous demon ( Shaitan ), Khadijah is said to have applied a test: When he appeared the angel, she asked him one after the other on her left leg, on her right leg and to put in her lap, where she also threw back her veil last time. Each time she asked Mohammed if he can still see the angel. While he saw the angel in the first two times yet, this disappeared when Muhammad was sitting in her lap and she had beaten back the veil ( CHIMAR ). Because she knew that it was not Shaitan these were an angel and. It is based on the idea that an angel may dwell in the presence of a virtuous, veiled woman, at lewd behavior and nudity but her body away, while the demon would not have minded this behavior.
According to Islamic tradition, Khadijah was the first person who believed in Muhammad's religious message. In all his disputes with opponents they should have loyally supported him. Ibn Hisham describes this as follows:
"Whenever Muhammad met with rejection and foul slander and was sad about it, God made it forget it for her as soon as he came to her home, as she reaffirmed and strengthened him, believed in him and reassured him about the behavior of people. "
Only after her death in 619 was a Mohammed more marriages. But Khadijah was the only wife of Muhammad, who bore him children. ( A son with the Copt Mary died in infancy. ) Like the other wives she is considered one of the " mothers of the believers."