Lady Khadija's House

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General Information
Other Names	Mawlid Fatima
Place	Mecca, Zuqaq al-'Attarin
Religious Aspect
Religious Affiliation	Islam, Shi'a
History
Events	Revelation to the Prophet Muhammad(a), birth of Lady Fatima(a)
Current State
Status	Destroyed

Lady Khadija's House, (Arabic: دار السيدة خديجة, Dar al-Sayyida Khadija), in Mecca, was the house where the Prophet(s) lived after marrying Lady Khadija until he migrated to Medina. This house was the birthplace of Lady Fatima(a) and other children of Khadija, and many Meccan verses of the Quran were also revealed to the Prophet(s) in that house, and also Khadija died in this house. Since the 6th/12th century, this place has been also known in sources as Lady Fatima's birthplace. Since then, there has been two domes in this house. One was called Qubbat al-Wahy and it was built on a room that was considered the place of worship of the Prophet(s) and the place where Gabriel descended on the Prophet. The other dome was built over a room that was said to be Lady Fatima's birthplace.

In the 14th/20th century, after House of Saud conquered Mecca, this house was destroyed and later a building for teaching the Quran was built in its place. During the demolition and excavation of this place to develop al-Masjid al-Haram in 1410/1989, the remains of the old building of Khadija's house were found under the soil. This place has disappeared today and its location is in the area of al-Masjid al-Haram.

Location

Lady Khadija's house was in Perfumers Alley (Zuqaq al-'Attarin), Mecca. It was located in the vicinity of Abu Sufyan's house.

This house was the place where the Prophet(s) lived with Lady Khadija and many Meccan verses of the Qur'an were revealed in this house. Fatima(a) and other children of Lady Khadija were born in this house. It is also reported that this house is the place of demise of Khadija. The Prophet(s) continued living in this house after that until he migrated to Medina.

Names

This house became known as the Dar (house) of Lady Khadija because of her residence and it was also known as Lady Fatima's birthplace because of the birth of Lady Fatima there.

First Descriptions

According to Abu l-Walid al-Azraqi, a historian of the third/ninth century, this house was taken over by 'Aqil b. Abi Talib after the Prophet(s) migrated to Medina. Mu'awiya b. Abi Sufyan bought the house and turned it into a mosque and opened a door to it from Abu Sufyan's house. This house was later called Dar Abi Sufyan. Elsewhere, al-Azraqi says that the house was occupied by Mu'attib, the son of Abu Lahab, one of the stubborn enemies of the Prophet(s) after his migration, but the Prophet(s) did not claim the house after the conquest of Mecca.

Ibn Jubayr (d. 614/1217-8) mentioned this house in his travelogue at the end of the 6th/12th century. This house had two domes at the time. The larger dome was called the Dome of the Revelation, which was the place where the Prophet(s) used to worship, and the place where Gabriel descended on the Prophet(s), and the other is a small dome, where Lady Fatima(a) was born.

In the 9th/15th Century

Taqi al-Din al-Fasi (d. 832/1428-9), the historian of Mecca, gave a detailed description of the building of Khadija's house, or according to him "Mawlid Fatima", and pointed out that this house is considered virtuous by the people and they visit it.

Al-Fasi says this place is more like a mosque because it has a portico with seven arches and eight columns. In the middle of the front wall are three altars; in front of it is a colonnade with four arches and five columns. The other part of the house is the rooms. One is Fatima's birthplace, the other is the Qubbat al-Wahy. Some believe that these rooms are the old area house that was in the time of the Prophet(s) and the mosque was added to it later. The shorter descriptions of other writers are also consistent with al-Fasi's description until the eleventh/seventeenth century.

In the 13th/19th and 14th/20th century

In a travelogue from the end of the period of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar (R. 1313-1264 AH), it is mentioned in the description of the house of Lady Khadija(s) that it had a marble floor, a dome was on Lady Fatima's birthplace and a room in it was called the place of the Prophet's worship. According to a report in 1265/1849, in the place of Khadija's house, a takiyyah known as "Takiyyah al-Sayyida Fatima" was built for the use of the poor.

Destruction

The Egyptian writer Mohammed Hussein Heikal (d. 1956) visited the place of this house in 1354/1936. He writes: Wahhabis have destroyed the birthplace of Lady Fatima(s) and now this place is an empty land and there is no trace of it. Muhammad Lutfi Jum'a also confirms the destruction of the house in his travelogue.

Construction of a School of the Quran

In Jumada I of 1370/1951, a building was built as a school of the Quran on the grounds of Lady Khadija's house. Muhammad Tahir al-Kurdi (d. 1400/1980) has mentioned the building as takiyya. The building was constructed by Sayyid 'Abbas Qattan and it was known as al-Sayyid 'Abbas's School in Umm al-Mu'minin Khadija's House.

Merging with al-Masjid al-Haram

At the end of the year 1410/1989, the school of the Quran was destroyed for the eastern expansion of al-Masjid al-Haram. During the demolition operation, the remains of old building of Lady Khadija's house were excavated. Ahmad Zaki al-Yamani, was present at the site during the operation and took pictures and maps of the remains of Lady Khadija's house and gave a report of his observations in his book Dar Sayyida Khadija bint Khuwaylid.

Gallery

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  Location in the early Islam

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  After the latest expansion of the al-Masjid al-Haram

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  Al-Sayyid 'Abbas's school

• File:===Lady Khadijah's House Apearance During Destruction===
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