The death of the Mother of the Believers Khadija (may Allah be pleased with her)

The Mother of the Believers Khadija bint Khuwaylid — the first to believe in the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and the first to console him with herself and her wealth — died in Makkah, in the year named "the Year of Grief" for his sorrow over her and Abu Talib.

Khadija (may Allah be pleased with her) was the noblest of the women of Quraysh in honour and wealth. The Prophet ﷺ married her fifteen years before the mission, and when revelation came to him at the Cave of Hiraʾ he returned to her with a trembling heart, and she spoke her immortal words: "No, by Allah, Allah will never disgrace you; you keep ties of kinship, bear the burden of the weak, host the guest and help against the calamities of truth."

She believed in him before all people and consoled him with her wealth and herself through the years of the boycott and persecution. She bore all his children except Ibrahim, and he did not marry another while she lived, and he kept remembering her after her death until ʿAʾisha said: I was never jealous of anyone as I was of Khadija.

She died in Ramadan of the tenth year of the mission, about three years before the Hijra, and was buried at al-Hajun in Makkah. Her Lord had given her glad tidings of a house in Paradise of hollowed pearl, with no clamour or toil in it, and he ﷺ said: "The best of its women is Maryam, and the best of its women is Khadija."