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The first to believe
He came home shaking. She was the first to believe him.
4 min, Intro, Draft written with AI help: awaiting scholar review
Part 1 of 3
Khadijah ran her own trading business. She hired Muhammad to take her goods to Syria. His honesty impressed her, so she proposed marriage herself. Most reports say she was forty and he twenty-five. Some say she was younger.
Lesson
Khadijah proposed, and while she lived he married no one else.
Part 2 of 3
After the first revelation in the cave of Hira, Muhammad came home shaking. Khadijah wrapped him up and reassured him, listing his kindness to others. She was the first to believe him.
Qur'an 96:1-2
ٱقۡرَأۡ بِٱسۡمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَ ١ خَلَقَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مِنۡ عَلَقٍ ٢
1 Read in the name of your Lord Who created,
2 created man from a clinging clot.
Lesson
Khadijah's first proof was his character.
Part 3 of 3
Khadijah spent her wealth on the early Muslims and shared three years of boycott in a valley outside Makkah. She died around 619, the same year as Abu Talib. The Prophet called her one of the best women of all time.
Lesson
Years after Khadijah died, the Prophet still spoke of her.
Reflect, just for you
Seen by lamplight. It gives more each time.
He came home shaking. She was the first to believe him.