The Children and Household of Our Blessed Prophet and Lady Khadijah Posted in History After his marriage to Lady Khadijah, the young man Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, had comfort which was new to him. Although Khadijah was at an age when a lot of women stop having children, she gave birth to six children for her husband. The first boy was named Al-Qasim, who died at a very young age. This was one of the many hardships that Prophet Muhammad and Lady Khadijah bore with beautiful patience. They had four daughters: Zaynab, Ruqayyah, Umm Kulthum and Fatimah. All of these children were born before Prophet Muhammad received Revelation. It is said that their last child was a boy named ^Abdullah, who was born after our Prophet received Revelation. He was also called At-Tayyib and At-Tahir. This son also died at a young age, which made some evil people mock our Prophet, laughing about that he had no sons. They claimed that the Prophet would be forgotten due to having no sons. It is to be observed that their last son was born when Lady Khadijah was past the age of fifty-five, may God raise her exalted rank! Before receiving Revelation, the Prophet gave some of his daughters in marriage. At the time when our Prophet received Revelation, Fatimah was still young and lived at home with her beloved parents. Also, in the household were ^Aliyy, the son of Abu Talib, Zayd Ibn Harithah, and Barakah. All of these people became great Muslims, dear Companions of our beloved Prophet. All of these Companions have interesting stories. Concerning our Lady Fatimah, we ask God to bless her greatly, she became the best woman of her time. She was the only daughter of our Prophet who outlived him; she died six months after his death. Fatimah was a woman of great faith, and as a young girl she saw her father hurt so much by the blasphemers. She helped her blessed father in her own way and was very dear to him. Fatimah grew up to give birth to the beloved grandsons of our Prophet through her marriage with her second paternal cousin, ^Aliyy Ibn Abi Talib. Our Prophet wanted to help his uncle, Abu Talib, who had helped him when he was a young orphan. This is the reason that ^Aliyy was raised in the Prophet’s home. The Prophet offered to care for ^Aliyy to help Abu Talib with his financial problems. Al-^Abbas, the brother of Abu Talib took in his son Ja^far and Abu Talib kept his son ^Aqil with him. Hence, ^Aliyy had the great blessing of being raised by the best of creation! ^Aliyy was only ten years old when the Revelation came to his cousin, Prophet Muhammad. Zayd Ibn Harithah was a slave of Lady Khadijah. She gave him to our Prophet who later set him free. Although Zayd became free, he loved Muhammad so much that he wanted to stay living with him. Even when the true father of Zayd found that his son was alive, Zayd preferred to live with Muhammad, rather than go with his real father. Seeing that Prophet Muhammad adopted Zayd, he was thus called ‘Zayd Ibn Muhammad’ (Zayd, the son of Muhammad) until God made adoption prohibited. He then was again called “Zayd Ibn Harithah.” Barakah was, as we said earlier, the slave of our Prophet’s father. She was a woman from east Africa. Our Prophet set her free. She continued to stay with the Prophet’s household and enjoyed the great blessing of seeing the last Prophet grow up and become the greatest teacher of mankind. She continued to live close to the Prophet, even after the Immigration. God made her a woman of great faith, to the extent that He endowed an extraordinary event on her. For a reason, Barakah had to immigrate from Makkah to Madinah by herself. En route to Madinah, she became very thirsty. A short time later, she heard flapping of wings and saw a pitcher of water. Barakah drank from that water after which she never felt thirsty again. She married Zayd Ibn Harithah and they had a son, Usamah, who was also very dear to our Prophet. When our Prophet was thirty-five an incident occurred. It was the rebuilding of the Kabah by Quraysh. This happened about five years before the Revelation came to the Prophet.
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