Biography and Early Life of Hazrat Khadija (RA)

What this category covers

Every strong life story has a start, and the start matters. Before Hazrat Khadija (RA) became known as the first believer in Islam and the strongest support of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), she was a daughter of Makkah. She grew up in a respected home, learned good manners from her parents, watched trade at close range, and built a character so clean that a whole city called her Tahira, the pure one. This category tells that first part of her life, step by step and in the right order.

The first article gives you her complete biography in one place, from her birth in Makkah to her death in the Year of Sorrow. The second article goes deep into her early life alone: her father Khuwaylid ibn Asad, her mother Fatima bint Zaidah, her tribe Banu Asad, her cousin Waraqa ibn Nawfal, and the marriages and children that came before her marriage to the Prophet. The third article is planned on her children, Qasim, Abdullah, Zainab, Ruqayyah, Umm Kulthum and Fatima (RA), and it will join this page as soon as it is ready.

Why her early life matters

Her later choices make full sense only when you know her early years. She refused marriage offers from rich and noble men of Quraysh, then chose a young man of 25 for his honesty alone. She trusted him with her trade before she trusted him with her hand. She believed in him at once when the first revelation came, while others doubted and asked questions. None of this came from nowhere. It came from a home that taught her the value of a good name, from years of judging people in trade, and from a character that stayed away from the wrong customs of Makkah even before Islam came.

That is why this category does not rush. It shows the family, the city and the childhood first, so that when you read about her business, her marriage and her faith in the other categories, you already know the woman behind those choices.

How the facts on this page are handled

All articles in this category are written in easy English from trusted sources, and the sources are named at the end of each article. Where scholars differ, for example on her exact birth year or on her marriages before the Prophet, the article says so in plain words and follows the view found in most Seerah books. No number is presented as a fact unless a trusted source supports it. Dates from old history are given with words like about and most books say, because people in that age kept no written birth records.