Khadija bint Khuwaylid (may God be pleased with her) ibn Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza ibn Qusayy, of Asad, of Quraysh, was the Prophet ﷺ's wife and the first woman he married 1. In Mecca she was a merchant of standing and wealth who hired men to trade with her goods 2 3. When she heard of the truthfulness, trustworthiness and noble character of Muhammad, she offered him a journey to Syria with her goods, together with her servant Maysara 2. The marriage took place two months after his return, when she was forty and he was twenty-five 4 5 6. He took no other wife until she died, and all his children were hers except Ibrahim 4 7.
When he came back from Hira with his heart trembling and told her he feared for himself, she said that God would never disgrace him, and then took him to her cousin Waraqa ibn Nawfal 8 9. Ibn al-Athir states in Usd al-Ghaba that she was the first of God's creation to embrace Islam by consensus of the Muslims, no man or woman preceding her 1. She died in Ramadan of the tenth year of the mission, aged sixty-five by the best-known report, when the Prophet was fifty, about two months after the death of Abu Talib, or by another report three days 10. She was buried at al-Hujun, before the funeral prayer had been instituted 11.
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