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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

in Ramadan and was buried at al-Ḥajūn (1) at the age of sixty-five.

Marwān ibn Muʿāwiyah related, through Wāʾil ibn Dāʾūd, from ʿAbd Allāh al-Bahī, who said:

ʿĀʾishah said, “Whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ mentioned Khadījah he could scarcely tire of praising her and praying for her forgiveness. One day he mentioned her, and jealousy overcame me, so I said, ‘Allah has compensated you with that old woman!’ I saw that he became extremely angry, and I was overcome with remorse (2). I said to myself, ‘O Allah, if You remove Your Messenger’s anger from me, I will never again speak ill of her.’ When the Prophet ﷺ noticed what I was going through, he said, ‘What did you say? By Allah, she believed in me when the people rejected me; she sheltered me when the people abandoned me; from her I was granted children, whereas you have been deprived of them.’ She added, ‘For a whole month he went on mentioning her morning and evening (3).’

Al-Wāqidī said: “They left the ravine of Banū Hāshim three years before the Hijrah. Abū Ṭālib died then, and a month and five days before him Khadījah passed away.”

Al-Ḥākim said: “She died three days after Abū Ṭālib.”

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah related from his father, from ʿĀʾishah: “I was never jealous of any woman as I was jealous of Khadījah, because of how often I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ mention her, and he did not marry me until three years after her death.

Indeed, his Lord commanded him to give her glad tidings of a house in Paradise made of qasab (hollow pearls) (4)."

(1) al-Hajun is a hill on the upper side of Mecca that contains its cemetery; in the printed edition the phrase “wa-dufinat” (and she was buried) has been mistakenly changed to “wa-hiya” (while she was). (2) al-khuld, when vocalised, refers to the mind, the heart, and the inner self. (3) Its chain of transmission is hasan (reliable). Ibn Hajar attributes it, in al-Isaba 12/217–218, to al-Dulabi’s Kitab al-Dhurria al-Tahira. Ahmad also records a similar report in the Musnad 6/117–118 through the isnad Mujalid – al-Shaʿbi – Masruq – Aisha. The author will quote it below, p. 117. (4) Reported by al-Bukhari 7/102–103 and Muslim, no. 2435; it has already been cited above.

فِي رَمَضَانَ، وَدُفِنَتْ بِالحَجُوْنِ (١) ، عَنْ خَمْسٍ وَسِتِّيْنَ سَنَةً. وَقَالَ مَرْوَانُ بنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنْ وَائِلِ بنِ دَاوُدَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ البَهِيِّ، قَالَ: قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ: كَانَ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا ذَكَرَ خَدِيْجَةَ، لَمْ يَكَدْ يَسْأَمُ مِنْ ثَنَاءٍ عَلَيْهَا، وَاسْتِغْفَارٍ لَهَا. فَذَكَرَهَا يَوْماً، فَحَمَلَتْنِي الغَيْرَةُ، فَقُلْتُ: لَقَدْ عَوَّضَكَ اللهُ مِنْ كَبِيْرَةِ السِّنِّ! قَالَ: فَرَأَيْتُهُ غَضِبَ غَضَباً، أُسْقِطْتُ فِي خَلَدَي (٢) ، وَقُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي: اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ أَذْهَبْتَ غَضَبَ رَسُوْلِكَ عَنِّي، لَمْ أَعُدْ أَذْكُرُهَا بِسُوْءٍ. فَلَمَّا رَأَى النَّبِيُّ ﷺ مَا لَقِيْتُ، قَالَ: (كَيْفَ قُلْتِ؟ وَاللهِ لَقَدْ آمَنَتْ بِي إِذْ كَذَّبَنِي النَّاسُ، وَآوَتْنِي إِذْ رَفَضَنَي النَّاسُ، وَرُزِقْتُ مِنْهَا الوَلَدَ، وَحُرِمْتُمُوْهُ مِنِّي) . قَالَتْ: فَغَدَا وَرَاحَ عَلَيَّ بِهَا شَهْراً (٣) . قَالَ الوَاقِدِيُّ: خَرَجُوا مِنْ شِعْبِ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ قَبْلَ الهِجْرَةِ بِثَلاَثِ سِنِيْنَ، فَتُوُفِّيَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ، وَقَبْلَهُ خَدِيْجَةُ بِشَهْرٍ وَخَمْسَةِ أَيَّامٍ. وَقَالَ الحَاكِمُ: مَاتَتْ بَعْدَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ بِثَلاَثَةِ أَيَّامٍ. هِشَامُ بنُ عُرْوَةَ: عَنْ أَبِيْهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ: مَا غِرْتُ عَلَى امْرَأَةٍ مَا غِرْتُ عَلَى خَدِيْجَةَ، مِمَّا كُنْتُ أَسْمَعُ مِنْ ذِكْرِ رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ لَهَا، وَمَا تَزَوَّجَنِي إِلاَّ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا بِثَلاَثِ سِنِيْنَ. وَلَقَدْ أَمَرَهُ رَبُّهُ أَنْ يُبَشِّرَهَا بِبَيْتٍ فِي الجَنَّةِ مِنْ قَصَبٍ (٤) .

(١) الحجون: جبل بأعلى مكة عنده مدافن أهلها، وقد تحرف في المطبوع " ودفنت " إلى " وهي ". (٢) الخلد، بالتحريك: البال والقلب والنفس. (٣) إسناده حسن، ونسبه الحافظ في " الإصابة ": ١٢ / ٢١٧، ٢١٨ إلى كتاب " الذرية الطاهرة " للدولابي، وفي " المسند " ٦ / ١١٧، ١١٨، من طريق مجالد، عن الشعبي، عن مسروق، عن عائشة، خبر قريب من هذا، وسيورده المؤلف ص ١١٧. (٤) أخرجه البخاري ٧ / ١٠٢، ١٠٣، ومسلم (٢٤٣٥) وقد تقدم.