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 "id": "person/khadija",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "khadija",
 "label": {
  "en": "Khadija bint Khuwaylid",
  "ar": "خديجة بنت خويلد"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A wealthy Meccan merchant who was the Prophet Muhammad's first wife and, in tradition, the first person to believe in his message.",
  "ar": "تاجرة مكية ثرية، كانت أول أزواج النبي محمد، وهي في الرواية أول من آمن برسالته."
 },
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 ],
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  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "women",
  "family-marriage-kinship",
  "trade-and-finance"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 555.0003764622134,
  "latest": 619.3275015913769
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0555~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Tradition places her birth around 555 CE, about fifteen years before the Prophet; the exact year is not certain.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0619-04~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Traditionally Ramadan, three years before the Hijra (about April 619 CE), in the same period as Abu Talib's death.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
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   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "خديجة بنت خويلد بن أسد بن عبد العزى بن قصي"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0555~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Tradition places her birth around 555 CE, about fifteen years before the Prophet; the exact year is not certain.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0619-04~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Traditionally Ramadan, three years before the Hijra (about April 619 CE), in the same period as Abu Talib's death.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "merchant",
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni",
   "shia-twelver"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "merchant",
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0610~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0610~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Tradition counts her the first person to embrace Islam.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "family-of-the-prophet",
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0610~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "arabian-polytheism",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0610~"
    }
   },
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0610~"
    },
    "note": "Early Muslim; recorded under the museum's Sunni frame (docs/scope.md). She predates the Sunni-Shia division."
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/lings-1983"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "خديجة بنت خويلد تاجرة مكية غنية عمل لديها التاجر الشاب محمد، ثم تزوجته نحو سنة 595م. ويعدّها المسلمون أول من آمن برسالته."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "وُلدت نحو سنة 555م في بني أسد بن عبد العزى من [[group/quraysh|قريش]]، وكانت تدير تجارة تُخرِج قوافل إلى الشام واليمن {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. وأعجبها ما بلغها عن صدق [[person/muhammad|محمد]] فاستأجرته في تجارتها، ثم عرضت عليه الزواج؛ وتُذكر زيجتهما في واقعة [[event/marriage-to-khadija|زواجه بخديجة]] وكان نحو الخامسة والعشرين {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nوعندما عاد النبي مرتجفًا من [[event/first-revelation|الوحي الأول]]، تحكي الرواية أن خديجة قالت له: «والله لا يخزيك الله أبدًا»، ثم ذهبت به إلى ابن عمها [[person/waraqa-ibn-nawfal|ورقة بن نوفل]] فعرّف ما جاءه بالنبوة {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}. وظلت نحو خمس وعشرين سنة زوجته الوحيدة وأم بناته ومنهن [[person/fatima|فاطمة]]. وشاركته شدة [[event/boycott-of-banu-hashim|مقاطعة بني هاشم]]، وتوفيت نحو إبريل سنة 619م في الموسم نفسه الذي مات فيه حامي زوجها [[person/abu-talib|أبو طالب]]، وذلك العام هو [[event/year-of-sorrow|عام الحزن]] {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "تُعد خديجة عند أهل السنة من أجلّ النساء: أول المؤمنين، وأم بنات النبي، ومثال الثقة والسخاء. ودُفنت في مقبرة الحجون بمكة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "تخيّلي أنك أول إنسان يصدّق حكاية مدهشة يرويها صديقك، وتقفين إلى جانبه بمالك وشجاعتك بقية حياتك. هكذا كانت خديجة."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/khadija",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Khadija bint Khuwaylid was a wealthy merchant of Mecca who employed a young trader named Muhammad, then married him about 595 CE. When he began to preach, tradition counts her the first person who believed."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Born around 555 CE into the clan of Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza of [[group/quraysh]], Khadija ran a trading business that sent caravans to Syria and Yemen {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. Impressed by reports of the honesty of [[person/muhammad]], she employed him in her trade and later proposed marriage; the wedding is remembered as the event [[event/marriage-to-khadija]], when he was about twenty-five {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nWhen the Prophet returned shaken from [[event/first-revelation]], tradition tells that Khadija answered, \"God will never disgrace you,\" and took him to her cousin [[person/waraqa-ibn-nawfal]], who recognized what had happened as prophecy {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}. For about twenty-five years she was his only wife and the mother of his daughters, including [[person/fatima]]. She shared the hardship of [[event/boycott-of-banu-hashim]] and died about April 619 CE, in the same season as her husband's protector [[person/abu-talib]] — the year remembered as [[event/year-of-sorrow]] {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "In Sunni tradition Khadija is among the most honored women: the first believer, the mother of the Prophet's daughters, and a model of trust and generosity. She was buried at al-Hajun cemetery in Mecca."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Imagine being the very first person to believe a friend's astonishing story — and standing by them, with your money and your courage, for the rest of your life. That was Khadija."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/khadija",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
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 "contemporaries": [
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  "person/abu-talib",
  "person/al-walid-ibn-al-mughira",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/mutim-ibn-adi",
  "person/abu-lahab",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/umm-ayman",
  "person/sumayya-bint-khayyat",
  "person/waraqa-ibn-nawfal",
  "person/utba-ibn-rabia",
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib"
 ],
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   "to": "person/fatima",
   "type": "parent_of",
   "inverse": true
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  {
   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "died_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/khuwaylid-ibn-asad",
   "type": "child_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muhammad",
   "type": "spouse_of",
   "inverse": false,
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    "edtf": "0619-04~"
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  {
   "to": "group/banu-hashim",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "By marriage into the Prophet's household; her own clan was Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza of Quraysh."
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  {
   "to": "event/first-revelation",
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   "note": "Tradition reports she reassured the Prophet after the first revelation.",
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   ]
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  {
   "to": "event/boycott-of-banu-hashim",
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   "inverse": false
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   "to": "event/year-of-sorrow",
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   "inverse": false,
   "role": "أول يوم من أيام الدعوة",
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  "person/abu-lahab",
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