Lady Khadija's House: Difference between revisions

'''The House of Lady Khadīja''',(Arabic:دار السیده الخدیجه;Dār al-sayyida al-khadīja ) the Prophet’s wife, in [[Mecca]], was the house where the Prophet of Islam lived after marrying [[Khadija|Lady Khadīja]] until he migrated to [[Medina]]. This house was the [[Mawlid Fatima|birthplace of Lady Fatima(s)]] and other children of Khadīja and many Meccan verses of the [[Quran]] were also revealed to the Prophet in that house and also Khadīja died in this house. Since the 6th century, this place has been known in sources as the birthplace of Lady Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet. Since then, there were two domes in this house. One was called [[Qubba al-Waḥy]] and it was built on a room that was considered the place of worship and the place where [[Gabriel]] descended on the Prophet. The other dome was built over a room that was said to be the birthplace of worship of [[lady Fatima(s)|lady Fatima]].

In the 14th AH/20th century CE, after [[House of Saʿūd]] 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 with the aim of developing the Grand Mosque in 1410 AH/1989 CE, the remains of the old building of Khadīja’s house were found under the soil. This place has disappeared today and its location is in the area of [[Masjid al-Ḥarām]].

This house became known as the Dār (house) of [[Lady Khadīja]] because of her  residence and it was also known as the birthplace of [[Fatima|Lady Fatima]] because of the birth of lady Fatima.<ref>al-fāsī, al-Zuhūr al-muqattifa min tārīkh makka al-musharrifa, p. 99.</ref>                   

According to ʿAbu l-walīd Azraqī, a historian of the third century AH, this house was taken over by [[ʿAqīl b. Abī Ṭālib]] after the Prophet’s migration to [[Medina]]. [[Muʿāwīyah b. Abī Sufyān]] bought that house and turned it into a mosque and opened a door to it from his father Abū Sufyān’s house.<ref>Azraqī, ''Akhbār Makka'', vol. 2, p. 199; Ibn Zahīra, ''al-Jāmiʿ al-laṭīf'', p. 286; Kurdī,''al-Tārīkh al-qawīm'', vol. 1, p. 289.</ref> This house was later called Dār Abī Sufyān<ref>Kurdī,''al-Tārīkh al-qawīm'', vol. 1, p. 289.</ref>Elsewhere, Azraqī says that the house was occupied by Mu'tab, the son of [[Abu Lahab]] and the Prophet's cousin, one of the staunch enemies of the Prophet  after the migration of the Prophet <ref>Ibn Saʿd,''al-Ṭabaqāt  al-kubrā''

Ibn Jubir (d. 614 AH) mentioned this house in his travelogue at the end of the 6th century AH. This house had two domes at that time. One is a larger dome called the Dome of the Revelation, which was the place where the Prophet and Khadīja had lived, and the place where Gabriel descended on the Prophet, and the other is a small dome, where [[Lady Fatima]] was born.<ref>Ibn Jubayr, ''Safarnāma Ibn Jubayr'', p. 81-82.</ref>

The Egyptian writer Muḥammad  Ḥasanayn Haykal (d.1376 AH) visited the place of this house in 1354 AH. He writes: [[Wahhabis]] have destroyed the birthplace of lady Fatima(s) and now this place is an empty space and there is no trace of it. <ref>Haykal, Fī manzil al-waḥy, p. 227.</ref> . Muḥammad Luṭfī Jumʿa  also confirmed the destruction of the house in his travelogue.<ref>Luṭfī,''ayyām al-mabrūrra'', p. 78.</ref>

In Jamādī l-ʾulā 1370 AH, a building was built as a school for the memorization of the Holy Quran on the ground of lady Khadīja’s house.<ref> Yamānī, ''Dār Sayyida Khadīja'', p. 58.</ref> Muḥammad Ṭāhir Kurdī (d. 1400 AH) also mentioned this foundation.<ref>Kurdī,''al-Tārīkh al-qawīm'', vol. 1, p. 290.</ref>This mosque was built by Sayyid ʿAbbās Qattān and it was known as Sayyid ʿAbbās’s Madrisah in Dār [[Umm al-Mu'minīn]] Khadīja.<ref>Yamānī,Dār Sayyida Khadīja bint khūwaylīd, p. 58.</ref>

==Merging in al- Masjid al-Ḥarām==

At the end of the year 1410 AH/1989 AD, the Quran memorizing building was destroyed to expand the spaces on the eastern side of the [[Masjid al-Ḥarām|al-Masjid al-Ḥarām]]. During the demolition operation, they found the remains of old buildings and it turned out that the place where these historical works were found is the house of lady Khadīja.<ref>Yamānī, Dār Sayyida Khadīja bint khūwaylīd  p. 60.</ref>Aḥmad Zakkī Yamānī, was present at the site during the construction operation and took pictures and maps of the remains of Khadīja's house and gave a report of his observations in his book [[Dār Sayyida Khadīja bint khūwaylīd]]. <ref>Yamānī, Dār Sayyida Khadīja bint khūwaylīd  p. 93 onwards.</ref>