Muhammad and illiteracy: Difference between revisions

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===Indications he was literate===
===Indications he was literate===
Muhammad was employed by his first wife Khadija to travel as a merchant. It's hard to do trade business without being able to write. Besides this implicit indication to his ability to write, we have explicit hadiths talking about Muhammad writing stuff.
Muhammad was employed by his first wife Khadija to travel as a merchant. It's hard to do trade business without being able to write. Besides this implicit indication to his ability to write, we have explicit hadiths talking about Muhammad writing stuff.
وكتب (''wa-kataba'') means "and he wrote":
{{Quote|{{Bukhari|4|53|387}}|
Narrated Abu Humaid As-Saidi:
We accompanied the Prophet (ﷺ) in the Ghazwa of Tabuk and the king of 'Aila presented a white mule and a cloak as a gift to the Prophet. '''And the Prophet (ﷺ) wrote (وَكَتَبَ) to him''' a peace treaty allowing him to keep authority over his country.
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كتب (''kataba'') means "he wrote":
كتب (''kataba'') means "he wrote":
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وكتب (''wa-kataba'') means "and he wrote":
{{Quote|{{Bukhari|4|53|387}}|
Narrated Abu Humaid As-Saidi:
We accompanied the Prophet (ﷺ) in the Ghazwa of Tabuk and the king of 'Aila presented a white mule and a cloak as a gift to the Prophet. '''And the Prophet (ﷺ) wrote (وَكَتَبَ) to him''' a peace treaty allowing him to keep authority over his country.
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فكتب (''fa-kataba'') means "then he wrote":
فكتب (''fa-kataba'') means "then he wrote":
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