6 of 8 · 10th year of prophethood · c. 619 CE · al-Hajun, Makkah
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid رضي الله عنها
Her Grave at al-Hajun
Not long after the boycott was lifted, Khadijah died, some three years before the Hijrah (Sahih al-Bukhari 3896). Most reports place her death in Ramadan of the tenth year of prophethood, close in time to the death of Abu Talib, and say she was about sixty-five.
The prayer over the dead had not yet been prescribed. Ibn Sa'd reports that the Prophet ﷺ himself went down into her grave at al-Hajun, in the upper part of Makkah, and laid her to rest with his own hands.
She had lived to see the message born, but not to see it free. She never saw Madinah, a Muslim army or a single victory — and yet everything that came afterwards stood on what she had given at the start.
Some people's work is to lay foundations they never see built upon; their reward is with Allah, not with what they witness.
What good could you start now, even if you might never see where it leads?
- Sahih al-Bukhari 3896 Sahih · in the two Sahihs
- Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabaqat al-KubraHistorical report
- al-Dhahabi, Siyar A'lam al-Nubala'Historical report
What the hadith grades mean
- Sahih (authentic): an unbroken chain of trustworthy, precise narrators, free of hidden flaws or contradiction. It is acted upon.
- Hasan (good): like sahih, but a narrator's precision is slightly lighter. It is also accepted and acted upon. "Hasan sahih" means it reaches sahih by its routes.
- Da'if (weak): a break in the chain or a narrator who is not reliable enough. It is not used to establish beliefs or rulings.
- Very weak (munkar, matruk): a seriously flawed chain or a narrator accused of lying. It is not relied on at all.
- Mawdu' (fabricated): falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. It may not be narrated as his words except to warn against it.
- The two Sahihs: every hadith with a full chain in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim is accepted as sahih by the scholars of hadith.
- Historical report: biographies and histories (Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari) record events with chains that are often incomplete. They are used for the story, not for rulings.
- Hadith scholars grade a narration; the four madhhabs do not. Where a hadith carries a ruling, the page shows which schools act on it.
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