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interested in marrying a beautiful,
wealthy lady from a noble family
who wishes to marry you?
”
Muhammad [s] was curious and he
asked Nafisah who this woman
was. “
None other than Khadijah [r],
”
she said.
“
Yes, indeed
,” Muhammad [s]
replied.
When Khadijah [r] heard of this, she
was overjoyed and soon thereafter
the two were married. Muhammad
[s] was twenty-five years old when
he married Khadijah [r] and she was
forty.
Khadijah [r] was blessed with not
only Muhammad [s] as a husband
but also with six children from him.
Two sons, Qasim and Abdullah,
who sadly passed away while they
were
young,
and
Zainab,
Ruqayyah, Umm Kulthum and
Fatima, may Allah be pleased with
