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'''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]].

 

This house was the place where the Prophet lived with [[Khadīja|Lady Khadīja]]<ref>Azraqī, ''Akhbār Makka'' ,vol. 2, p. 199.</ref> and many Meccan verses of the Qurʾan were revealed in this house.<ref>al-fāsī, al-Zuhūr al-muqattifa min tārīkh makka al-musharrifa, p. 99.</ref>[[Fatima|Lady Fatima]] and other children of Khadīja were born in this house.<ref>Azraqī, ''Akhbār Makka'' ,vol. 2, p. 199.</ref> It is also reported that this house is the place of demise of Khadija and the Prophet lived in this house after that until he migrated to [[Medina]].<ref>Azraqī, ''Akhbār Makka'' ,vol. 2, p. 199.</ref>

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>                   

==The first descriptions of Khadīja’s house==

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'ttib, 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''

  vol. 4, p. 45.</ref> and the Prophet did not claim the house after the [[conquest of Mecca]].<ref>Azraqī, ''Akhbār Makka'', vol. 2, p. 245.</ref>

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>

==Khadīja’s house in the 9th century==

Taqī al-Dīn al-Fāsī (d. 832 AH), the historian of Mecca, gave a detailed description of the building of Khadīja’s house, or according to him “the birthplace of [[Fatima]], and pointed out that this house is considered virtuous by the people and they visit it.<ref>al-fāsī, al-Zuhūr al-muqattifa min tārīkh makka al-musharrifa, p. 99.</ref>

al-fāsī 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 there are three altars and in front of it is a portico with four arches and five columns. And between these two porches is a courtyard. The other part of the house includes rooms. One is the birthplace of [[Fatima]], the other is the [[Qubba al-Waḥy]], and the third is the [[Mukhtabā]].<ref>Fāsī, ''Shifāʾ al-gharām'', vol. 1, p. 360.</ref> Some believe that these rooms are the same old area of the house that was in the time of the Prophet and the mosque was added to it later.<ref>fāsī, ''Shifāʾ al-gharām'', vol .1 p.360.</ref> The shorter descriptions of other writers are also consistent with al-fāsī,’s description until the eleventh decade.<ref>Yamānī, ''Dār Sayyida Khadīja'', p. 48.</ref>

==Khadīja’s house in the 13th and 14th century==

In a travelogue from the end of the period of [[Nāṣir al-Dīn Shah Qājār]] (R. 1313-1264 AH), it is mentioned in the description of the house of [[Lady Khadīja(s)]] that it had a marble floor, a dome was on the birthplace of [[Lady Fatima(s)]] and a room in it called the place of worship of the Prophet(s) had  been famous.<ref> Mīqāt-i Ḥajj, Num. 63, p. 70.</ref>According to a report in 1265 A.H, in the place of Khadīja's house, a [[Takiyyah]] known as "Takiyyah al-Sayyida Fatima" was built for the use of the poor.<ref>Kurdī,''al-Tārīkh al-qawīm'', vol. 1, p. 289-290.</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>

file:نقشه خانه حضرت خدیجه(س) 4.JPG|After the last expansion of the Al-Masjid al-Ḥarām

===== The picture of Sayyid Abbās school in the place of Lady Khadīja's house =====

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