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c. 555 CE approximate debated before the Hijra
A wealthy Meccan merchant who was the Prophet Muhammad's first wife and, in tradition, the first person to believe in his message.
Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir (Bewley translation, Ta-Ha)
Birth: Khadija bint Khuwaylid — c. 555 CE
A wealthy Meccan merchant who was the Prophet Muhammad's first wife and, in tradition, the first person to believe in his message.
The Prophet's marriage to Khadija — 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.
The three years of the secret call — c. 610 CE
The first stage of the call to Islam — individual and secret for three years — in which the first band believed: Khadija, Ali, Zayd and Abu Bakr on the first day, then those whom Abu Bakr called, then a company Ibn Hisham numbers at over forty from every clan of Quraysh; during it prayer was first prescribed.
Ali ibn Abi Talib accepts Islam as a boy — between 610 and 622 CE
Ali grew up in the Prophet's household after a famine led the Prophet and al-Abbas to take charge of his upbringing; he followed the Prophet from the start of the mission, and the Sunni author counts him the first boy to believe.
The first revelation — 10 August 610 CE · 21 Ramadan 12 BH
The descent of Jibril upon the Prophet in the cave of Hira with the opening verses of surat al-Alaq — on the night of Monday 21 Ramadan in the book's preferred reckoning, corresponding to 10 August 610 CE, when the Prophet was forty lunar years, six months and twelve days old.
The boycott of the Banu Hashim — c. 616 CE
A comprehensive political and economic boycott imposed by Quraysh against Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib, confining them to Shib Abi Talib for three years until its repeal.
Death of Khadija bint Khuwaylid — c. April 619 CE
Khadija, mother of the believers, died in Ramadan of the tenth year of the mission, about two or three months after Abu Talib, aged sixty-five while the Prophet was fifty.
Death: Khadija bint Khuwaylid — c. April 619 CE
A wealthy Meccan merchant who was the Prophet Muhammad's first wife and, in tradition, the first person to believe in his message.
