Portal: Muhammad’s Wives and Consorts: Difference between revisions

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The wives of the prophet are described as "أمهات المؤمنين" or "mothers of the believers." As such the prophetic example is considered instructive for all Muslim households. How the prophet interacted with his wives, and how they obeyed him, is a framework for how Muslim husbands and wives ought to interact, as well as how men should interact with their own female slaves. [[Aisha]], the prophet's favorite wife, has an especially loft position in the sacred history of Islam. She was last person the prophet interacted with before he died, and she also form the starting point for many important [[sahih]] narrations about his life in the [[hadith]]. As such her life is considered especially instructive for Muslim women and believers in general.

{{PortalArticle|image=Safiyya_bint_Huyayy.png|title=Safiyah|summary=Safiyah was the beautiful wife of the Jewish leader Kinana, whom the prophet killed after conquering his people at Khaybar. Muhammad took her as his wife after killing her husband, though she never converted to Islam.|description=}}

{{PortalArticle|image=Khadijah.png|title=Khadijah bint Khuwaylid|summary=Khadijah was the prophet's first wife. She was considerably older than him and he benefited from her thriving trade business. She was one of the first converts to Islam.|description=}}

{{PortalArticle|image=wives of the prophet.jpg|title=Muhammad's Marriages|summary=The prophet married many women, though some of them died while he was alive so he was not married to them all at the same time.|description= }}

{{PortalArticle|image=Muhammad and Aisha.png|title=Ages of Muhammads Wives at Marriage|summary=Muhammad married different women at different stages of their lives.|description= }}

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{{PortalArticle|image=Prophet-Muhammad-wives.jpg|title=Muhammads Marriages of Political Necessity|summary=Although the tradtion is quite explicit that Muhammad was fond of women, many of his marriages also had a political dimension to them, solidifying alliances within the early Islamic community.  |description=. }}

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