Muhammad Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! =={{anchor|household}}Household== {{Further|Muhammad's wives|Ahl al-Bayt}} [[File:Mrs Aisha room.jpg|thumb|The tomb of Muhammad is located in the quarters of his third wife, [[Aisha]] ([[Al-Masjid an-Nabawi]], [[Medina]]).]] Muhammad's life is traditionally defined into two periods: [[Muhammad in Mecca|pre-hijra (emigration) in Mecca]] (from 570 to 622), and [[Muhammad in Medina|post-hijra in Medina]] (from 622 until 632). Muhammad is said to have had thirteen wives in total (although two have ambiguous accounts, [[Rayhana bint Zayd]] and [[Maria al-Qibtiyya]], as wife or concubine{{efn|See for example Marco SchΓΆller, ''Banu Qurayza'', [[Encyclopedia of the Quran]] mentioning the differing accounts of the status of [[Rayhana]]}}<ref name="Barbara Freyer">Barbara Freyer Stowasser, ''Wives of the Prophet'', [[Encyclopedia of the Quran]].</ref>). At the age of 25, Muhammad married the wealthy [[Khadijah bint Khuwaylid]] who was 40 years old.<ref>{{cite book |last=Subhani |first=Jafar |title=The Message |chapter-url=http://www.al-islam.org/message |publisher=Ansariyan Publications, Qom |chapter=Chapter 9 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007221418/http://www.al-islam.org/message/ |archive-date=7 October 2010 }}</ref> The marriage lasted for 25 years and was a happy one.<ref name="Esp2">Esposito (1998), p. 18.</ref> Muhammad did not enter into marriage with another woman during this marriage.<ref name="Bullough 1998 119">Bullough (1998), p. 119.</ref><ref name="Reeves46">Reeves (2003), p. 46.</ref> After Khadijah's death, Khawla bint Hakim suggested to Muhammad that he should marry [[Sawdah bint Zam'ah]], a Muslim widow, or [[Aisha]], daughter of [[Umm Ruman]] and [[Abu Bakr]] of [[Mecca]]. Muhammad is said to have asked for arrangements to marry both.<ref name="Watt-encyc-online">Watt, ''Aisha'', [[Encyclopaedia of Islam]].</ref> According to classical sources, Muhammad married Aisha when she was 6β7 years old; the marriage was consummated later, when she was 9 years old and he was 53 years old.{{efn|See: *{{harvnb|Nagel|2020|p=301}} *{{harvnb|Kloppenborg|Hanegraaff|2018|p=89}} *{{harvnb|Rodinson|2021|pp=150β1}} *{{harvnb|Forward|1997|pp=88β9}} *{{harvnb|Peterson|2007|pp=96β7}} *{{harvnb|Brown|2011|pp=76β7}} *{{harvnb|Phipps|2016|p=142}} *{{harvnb|Morgan|2009|p=134}} *{{harvnb|El-Azhari|2019|pp=24β5}} *{{harvnb|Anthony|2020|p=115}}}} Muhammad performed household chores such as preparing food, sewing clothes, and repairing shoes. He is also said to have had accustomed his wives to dialogue; he listened to their advice, and the wives debated and even argued with him.{{sfn|Ramadan|2007|pp=168β69}}<ref>Asma Barlas (2002), p. 125.</ref><ref>Armstrong (1992), p. 157.</ref> Khadijah is said to have had four daughters with Muhammad ([[Ruqayyah bint Muhammad]], [[Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad]], [[Zainab bint Muhammad]], [[Fatimah|Fatimah Zahra]]) and two sons ([[Abd-Allah ibn Muhammad]] and [[Qasim ibn Muhammad]], who both died in childhood). All but one of his daughters, Fatimah, died before him.<ref name="Nich" /> Some Shi'a scholars contend that Fatimah was Muhammad's only daughter.<ref>Ordoni (1990), pp. 32, 42β44.</ref> [[Maria al-Qibtiyya]] bore him a son named [[Ibrahim ibn Muhammad]], who died at two years old.<ref name="Nich">Nicholas Awde (2000), p. 10.</ref> Nine of Muhammad's wives survived him.<ref name="Barbara Freyer" /> Aisha, who became known as Muhammad's favorite wife in Sunni tradition, survived him by decades and was instrumental in helping assemble the scattered sayings of Muhammad that form the Hadith literature for the Sunni branch of Islam.<ref name="Watt-encyc-online" /> [[Zayd ibn Harithah|Zayd ibn Haritha]] was a slave that Khadija gave to Muhammad. He was bought by her nephew [[Hakim ibn Hizam|Hakim bin Hizam]] at the market in [[Ukaz, Arabia|Ukaz]].<ref>{{harv|Bearman et al.|2002|p=475}}</ref> Zayd then became the couple's adopted son, but was later disowned when Muhammad was about to marry Zayd's ex-wife, [[Zaynab bint Jahsh]].{{Sfn|Powers|2014|p=100-101}} According to a BBC summary, "the Prophet Muhammad did not try to abolish slavery, and bought, sold, captured, and owned slaves himself. But he insisted that slave owners treat their slaves well and stressed the virtue of freeing slaves. Muhammad treated slaves as human beings and clearly held some in the highest esteem".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml |title=Slavery in Islam |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 April 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624234057/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml |archive-date=24 June 2017 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page