Selected episodes with gaps; not a complete biography. · مشاهد مختارة بينها فجوات، وليست سيرة كاملة.
- Gap: Her life and trade before the marriage are not covered. · حياتها وتجارتها قبل الزواج غير مغطاة.
1. Before revelation · قبل البعثة
Before revelation · adult years in Makkah; ages and years reported differently — Makkah · an illustrative household threshold. Stage band (provisional): Makkah before revelation.
Khadijah is the subject of the marriage and household reports. No exact house, age, private conversation or viewpoint is reconstructed.
SW-CH-03-P1-S01 Draft, not expert-approvedBefore revelation, the Prophet ﷺ married Khadijah bint Khuwaylid of Quraysh, a merchant who, in Ibn Ishaq's account, had earlier entrusted him with her trade.
قبل البعثة تزوّج النبي ﷺ خديجةَ بنت خويلد من قريش، وكانت تاجرة ائتمنته قبل ذلك على تجارتها بحسب رواية ابن إسحاق.
SW-CH-03-P1-S02 Draft, not expert-approvedThe often-repeated figures make him twenty-five and her forty, but early reports differ on both ages.
والأرقام الشائعة تجعله ابن خمس وعشرين وتجعلها بنت أربعين، غير أن الروايات المتقدمة تختلف في العمرين.
SW-CH-03-P1-S03 Draft, not expert-approvedAccording to Ibn Ishaq and al-Rahiq al-Makhtum, all his children except Ibrahim were born to Khadijah: four daughters, Zaynab, Ruqayyah, Umm Kulthum and Fatimah, and sons: Ibn Ishaq says they died in the Jahiliyyah, before Islam, and al-Rahiq says they died young.
وبحسب ابن إسحاق والرحيق المختوم فإن أولاده كلهم من خديجة إلا إبراهيم: أربع بنات هنّ زينب ورقية وأم كلثوم وفاطمة، وأبناء: يذكر ابن إسحاق أنهم هلكوا في الجاهلية، ويذكر الرحيق المختوم أنهم ماتوا صغارًا.
SW-CH-03-P1-S04 Draft, not expert-approvedThe sons' names and number vary between reports, with al-Qasim and Abdullah named most often.
وتختلف الروايات في أسماء الأبناء وعددهم، وأكثر ما يُذكر منهم القاسم وعبد الله.
- Gap: The years of the marriage before revelation are not covered. · سنوات الزواج قبل البعثة غير مغطاة.
2. Returning for provisions · العودة للتزوّد
Beginning of prophethood · Ramadan, at about forty; exact day and year disputed — Makkah · household context. Stage band (provisional): Revelation begins; the quiet call.
Narrator-led account; the camera does not establish a personal vantage.
SW-CH-04-P1-S01 Draft, not expert-approvedAisha reported, in a narration in the opening section of Sahih al-Bukhari, on how revelation began, that revelation to the Prophet ﷺ began with true dreams.
روت عائشة، في رواية في الباب الذي يُفتتح به صحيح البخاري، باب بدء الوحي، أن الوحي بدأ للنبي ﷺ بالرؤيا الصادقة.
SW-CH-04-P1-S02 Draft, not expert-approvedHer report adds that he came to love seclusion, spending nights in worship in the cave of Hira and returning to Khadijah for provisions.
وتذكر الرواية أن الخلوة صارت أحبّ إليه، فكان يتعبّد الليالي في غار حراء، ويرجع إلى خديجة ليتزوّد.
3. The first reassurance · الطمأنينة الأولى
Beginning of prophethood · Ramadan, at about forty; exact day and year disputed — Makkah · an illustrative household. Stage band (provisional): Revelation begins; the quiet call.
Narrator-led account; the camera does not establish a personal vantage.
SW-CH-04-P1-S06 Draft, not expert-approvedThe Prophet ﷺ returned to Khadijah trembling and asked to be covered; she reassured him by recalling, in Aisha's account, his care for kin, the weak and guests.
ثم رجع النبي ﷺ إلى خديجة وهو يرتجف، وطلب أن يُغطّى، فطمأنته، بحسب رواية عائشة، بتذكيره برعايته للأرحام والضعفاء والضيوف.
4. Going to Waraqah · إلى ورقة
Beginning of prophethood · Ramadan, at about forty; exact day and year disputed — Makkah · exact route not established. Stage band (provisional): Revelation begins; the quiet call.
Narrator-led account; the camera does not establish a personal vantage.
SW-CH-04-P1-S07 Draft, not expert-approvedKhadijah took the Prophet ﷺ to her cousin Waraqah ibn Nawfal, an elderly, blind Christian versed in earlier scriptures.
ثم انطلقت خديجة بالنبي ﷺ إلى ابن عمها ورقة بن نوفل، وكان شيخًا نصرانيًا كفيفًا عارفًا بالكتب السابقة.
SW-CH-04-P1-S08 Draft, not expert-approvedWaraqah reportedly likened this to what had come to Moses and said his people would drive him out.
وفي الرواية شبّه ورقة ذلك بما نزل على موسى، وقال إن قومه سيُخرجونه.
5. The first to believe · أول من آمن
Early Makkah · the quiet phase of the call; duration conventional — Makkah · early community. Stage band (provisional): Revelation begins; the quiet call.
Narrator-led account; the camera does not establish a personal vantage.
Shared record (SW-CH-05-P1-S03) with The first circle — no co-presence claimed.
- Gap: Her Makkan years between the first belief and the boycott are not covered. · سنواتها المكية بين الإيمان الأول والحصار غير مغطاة.
6. Loss and remembrance · الفقد والوفاء
Later Makkan period, a few years before the Hijrah · order of the two deaths disputed — Makkah · loss, followed by a later remembrance. Stage band (provisional): Later Makkan years: boycott and loss.
The first line concerns her death; the next is a report from years later. Neither is presented as her own experience. Her presence in the boycott valley is not established here.
Provisional: Mixed node: boycott context, her death in Makkah, and a remembrance from years later. The order of her death and Abu Talib’s is disputed. Only the middle part is in her lifetime stage.
Narrator context: the boycott · سياق الراوي: الحصار
Her presence in the boycott valley is not established here.
SW-CH-09-P1-S01 Draft, not expert-approvedA report in Sahih al-Bukhari records that Quraysh and Kinanah swore a pact against Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib at Khayf Bani Kinanah, refusing marriage and trade with them until the Prophet ﷺ was handed over.
تذكر رواية في صحيح البخاري أن قريشًا وكنانة تحالفت على بني هاشم وبني المطلب في خيف بني كنانة، ألّا يناكحوهم ولا يبايعوهم حتى يُسلَّم إليهم النبي ﷺ.
SW-CH-09-P1-S02 Draft, not expert-approvedIbn Ishaq reports that both clans, those who believed and those who did not, withdrew into the valley of Abu Talib and endured severe hardship there.
ويذكر ابن إسحاق أن البطنين، من آمن منهم ومن لم يؤمن، انحازوا إلى شِعب أبي طالب ولقوا فيه شدة بالغة.
SW-CH-09-P1-S03 Draft, not expert-approvedIts length is usually given as two to three years, and the reports differ.
وتُذكر مدتها عادةً بين سنتين وثلاث، والروايات مختلفة.
Her death, in Makkah · وفاتها في مكة
SW-CH-09-P1-S07 Draft, not expert-approvedKhadijah died before the Hijrah, close to Abu Talib's death; reports differ on their order and interval.
توفيت خديجة قبل الهجرة، قريبًا من وفاة أبي طالب؛ وتختلف الروايات في ترتيب الوفاتين والفاصل بينهما.
A later remembrance, after her lifetime · ذكرى لاحقة بعد وفاتها
“Years later”; the record does not fix the year or place.
SW-CH-09-P1-S09 Draft, not expert-approvedYears later, Aishah reports, the Prophet ﷺ still often spoke of Khadijah and sent portions of meat to her friends.
وبعد سنين، كما تروي عائشة، كان النبي ﷺ لا يزال يكثر ذكر خديجة ويهدي من اللحم إلى صديقاتها.