Hazart khadija (RA) - BY: Areej Moez Sher

Hazart khadija (RA)

 She was the daughter of Khuwaylid bin Asad

 Before the coming of Islam she was called At-Tahira (the

pure one)

 She was married and widowed twice.

 She was a wealthy trading women

 She had hired the prophet to manage her trade to Syria

 Noticing the good management, honesty and truthfulness

of the holy Prophet(SAW), she send him a marriage

proposal.

 When the prophet married her she was 40 years old and

Prophet was 25 year old.

 They had six children: 4 daughter (Ruqaiyah, Umme-

kalsoom, Zainab and Fatima) and two sons who died in

infancy.

 Hazart Khadija was the first women to accept Islam

 She was also the first women to believe in the message of

Hazart Muhammad(SAW).

 Hazart Jibrael would often ask the prophet to give salam to

her.

 When the revelation came she comforted the prophet said

that Allah without disgrace him as he had helped the

widows and looked after the orphans and the needy.

 She took him to her cousin Warqa bin Naufil who assured

him that he was ordained by Allah to be a Messenger.

 She was one of the four women mentioned as the best

women of all times by the prophet when he said

“ the best of the peoples women are four;

Marayam bint imran, khadija bint

khuwaylid, Fatimah bint Muhammad and

Aasia the wife of pharaoh”

 Khadija was a very devoted and loving wife.

 She was the only wife of the prophet who suffered the

persecution of the early days of Islam.

 She suffered most at the time of boycott

 Hazarat Jibrael gave her the good tidings of the house in

the paradise.

 She died at the age of 65 and was laid to her grave by the

prophet himself.

 The year was known as the year of grief.

 Aisha said:

“I was not jealous of any other wife of the

prophet as I was jealous of khadija,

because of his constant mentioning of her”.