The Prophet's marriage to Khadija
زواج النبي من خديجة
c. 595 CE
The marriage of Muhammad and Khadija bint Khuwaylid, arranged after her trade trip under his management to Syria; the book gives her dowry as twenty young camels and her age as forty, and notes she remained his only wife until she died.
Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
WomenFamily, marriage and kinship
Connections
- Had participant
- Khadija bint KhuwaylidMaysaraNafisa bint MunyaMuhammad
- Occurred at
- Mecca
- Part of
- The Prophetic Era
People and things also explored
The three years of the secret callThe boycott of the Banu HashimThe Year of SorrowThe Prophet's marriage to Sawda bint Zam'aFatima bint MuhammadBanu HashimAbdullah ibn Muhammadal-Qasim ibn Muhammad
Sources
- Ibn Ishaq / Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad (1955)
- Watt, Muhammad at Mecca (1953)
- Lings, Muhammad (1983)
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Prophet's marriage to Khadija”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/marriage-to-khadija/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.