The Prophet's ﷺ household

Khadījah bint Khuwaylid رضي الله عنها

خديجة بنت خويلد

His ﷺ first wife, a merchant of Makkah who employed him before she married him, and the first human being to believe in him.

Where they appear

1. The Cave of Ḥirāʾ — the first revelation

   Answered his fear after Ḥirāʾ with an argument from his own character — 'you keep ties of kinship, carry the burden of the weak, honour the guest' — and took him to Waraqah.

2. Going public — and the persecution

   Funded the call and sheltered the household while Quraysh cut off trade with him.

3. The boycott and the Year of Sorrow

   Entered the valley of Abū Ṭālib with the clan and spent her wealth on it; died soon after it was lifted.

How it ended

Died in Makkah about three years before the Hijrah, shortly after the boycott ended — the loss that gave the Year of Sorrow its name.

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 3; ar-Raḥīq al-Makhtūm, al-Mubārakpūrī