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  "ar": "رحلة النبي التجارية إلى الشام في مال خديجة",
  "en": "The Prophet's trade journey to Syria with Khadija's goods"
 },
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  "ar": "في الخامسة والعشرين من عمره خرج النبي تاجراً إلى الشام في مال خديجة بنت خويلد، التي بلغها صدق حديثه وعظم أمانته وكرم أخلاقه فعرضت عليه أجراً أفضل مما تعطي غيره، ومعه غلامها ميسرة؛ ورأت خديجة في مالها من الأمانة والبركة ما لم تر قبله، فكان ذلك سبب زواجها منه.",
  "en": "At twenty-five the Prophet went to Syria as a trader with the goods of Khadija bint Khuwaylid, who had heard of his truthfulness, trustworthiness and noble character and offered him better terms than other merchants, sending her servant Maysara with him; she found in her goods a trustworthiness and blessing she had never seen, which led to their marriage."
 },
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  "trade-and-finance"
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   "note": "في الخامسة والعشرين من عمره (الرحيق ص60؛ ابن هشام 1/187-188)؛ السنة مشتقة من العمر وعام الفيل.",
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   "edtf": "0595~",
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   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "في الخامسة والعشرين من عمره (الرحيق ص60؛ ابن هشام 1/187-188)؛ السنة مشتقة من العمر وعام الفيل.",
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   "start": {
    "edtf": "0595~",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "في الخامسة والعشرين من عمره (الرحيق ص60؛ ابن هشام 1/187-188)؛ السنة مشتقة من العمر وعام الفيل.",
    "derived": true,
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     "source/ibn-hisham-sira"
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   }
  },
  "participants": [
   {
    "target": "person/muhammad",
    "role": "التاجر في مال خديجة"
   },
   {
    "target": "person/khadija",
    "role": "صاحبة المال"
   },
   {
    "target": "person/maysara",
    "role": "غلام خديجة المرافق"
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الرحيق المختوم ص58–61 نقلاً عن ابن هشام 1/180–191 ومختصر سيرة الرسول للنجدي ص16، 30–31 وزاد المعاد 1/17 وقلب جزيرة العرب ص260 ومحاضرات الخضري 1/63 وفقه السيرة ص52، 59",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "raheeq-prose-batch-6b"
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  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/ibn-hisham-sira"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-fable-5-1); al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 60–61"
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "في الخامسة والعشرين من عمره خرج [[person/muhammad|النبي]] تاجراً إلى [[place/al-sham|الشام]] في مال [[person/khadija|خديجة بنت خويلد]]، ومعه غلامها [[person/maysara|ميسرة]] {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.60} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/187-188}. فلما رجع رأت خديجة في مالها من الأمانة والبركة ما لم تر قبله، فكان ذلك طريقها إلى [[event/marriage-to-khadija|الزواج منه]] {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.60-61} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/189-190}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياة الكدح قبل الرحلة",
     "markdown": "لم يكن للنبي عمل معيّن في أول شبابه، إلا أن الروايات توالت أنه كان يرعى غنماً، رعاها في بني سعد، وفي مكة لأهلها على قراريط {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.60} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/166} {cite:fiqh-al-sira-al-ghazali p.52}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "عرض خديجة",
     "markdown": "ينقل المؤلف عن ابن إسحاق أن خديجة كانت امرأة تاجرة ذات شرف ومال، تستأجر الرجال في مالها وتضاربهم إياه بشيء تجعله لهم، وكانت قريش قوماً تجاراً {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.60} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/187-188}. فلما بلغها عن النبي صدق حديثه وعظم أمانته وكرم أخلاقه بعثت إليه وعرضت عليه أن يخرج في مال لها إلى الشام تاجراً، وتعطيه أفضل ما كانت تعطي غيره من التجار، مع غلام لها يقال له ميسرة، فقبل وخرج في مالها ومعه ميسرة حتى قدم الشام {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.60} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/187-188}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرجوع",
     "markdown": "لما رجع إلى مكة رأت خديجة في مالها من الأمانة والبركة ما لم تر قبل هذا، وأخبرها غلامها ميسرة بما رأى فيه من خلال عذبة وشمائل كريمة وفكر راجح ومنطق صادق ونهج أمين {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.60} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.61} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/189-190}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظات للباحثين",
     "markdown": "- لا يذكر الكتاب في هذا الموضع لقاء الراهب نسطور في هذه الرحلة؛ ما عند المسعودي من ذلك مسجّل في بطاقة ميسرة.\n- السنة في بطاقة الحدث مشتقة من العمر وعام الفيل."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كانت خديجة تاجرة غنية تستأجر رجالاً يحملون بضاعتها إلى الشام. سمعت أن محمداً صادق أمين، فأرسلته مع خادمها ميسرة، فعاد بربح كبير، وعاد ميسرة يمدح أخلاقه."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/trade-journey-to-syria-for-khadija",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "At the age of twenty-five [[person/muhammad|the Prophet]] went out as a merchant to [[place/al-sham|Syria]] with the goods of [[person/khadija|Khadija bint Khuwaylid]], with her servant [[person/maysara|Maysara]]. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.60} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/187-188} When he came back, Khadija saw in her property a trustworthiness and blessing she had never seen before, and that was her path to [[event/marriage-to-khadija|marrying him]]. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.60-61} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/189-190}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Hard work before the journey",
     "markdown": "He had no fixed work in his early youth, but the reports agree that he tended sheep: he tended them among the Banu Sa'd, and in Mecca for its people for small coins. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.60} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/166} {cite:fiqh-al-sira-al-ghazali p.52}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Khadija's offer",
     "markdown": "The author relates from Ibn Ishaq that Khadija was a trading woman of rank and wealth, who hired men to trade her goods on the basis of a share she gave them, and that Quraysh were a people of trade. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.60} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/187-188} When it reached her that he was truthful, that his trustworthiness was great and his character noble, she sent to him and offered that he should go out with her goods to Syria as a merchant, and she would give him the best share she gave any other merchant, with a servant of hers called Maysara. He agreed and went out with her goods, with Maysara, until he reached Syria. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.60} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/187-188}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The return",
     "markdown": "When he came back to Mecca, Khadija saw in her property a trustworthiness and blessing she had never seen before, and her servant Maysara told her what he had seen in him: sweet character, noble qualities, sound judgement, a truthful speech and a trustworthy way. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.60} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.61} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/189-190}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Notes for researchers",
     "markdown": "- The book does not mention in this place the meeting of the monk Nestor on this journey; what al-Mas'udi says of it is recorded under Maysara's entry. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.61}\n- The date of the event is derived from his age and the Year of the Elephant."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Khadija was a rich merchant who hired men to carry her goods to Syria. She heard that Muhammad was truthful and trustworthy, so she sent him with her servant Maysara; he came back with a great profit, and Maysara praised his character."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/trade-journey-to-syria-for-khadija",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
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  }
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