Her marriage with the Prophet took place fifteen years...

Her marriage with the Prophet took place fifteen years before his ordainment when she was forty years of age, while the Prophet was twenty-five. Khadijah died in the tenth year after ordainment when she was sixty-five. She was the only wife of the Prophet for twenty- five years, and during this period, she spared no effort in offering her wealth and devotion to him to promote the divine mission of her husband.

The Prophet's children, with the exception of Ibrahim, came from Khadijah, and so long as she lived, he did not marry another, and to the end of his life, he remembered Khadijah as the first lady of Islam. With the abundant alms she offered, he kept alive and respected her memory. The year Khadijah died, the Prophet had gone through fiftieth year of his very active life.

2-Sudah, daughter of Zam'ah At first, Sudah had married her cousin, as-Sakran, and accompanied the second group of Muslim emigrants to Abyssinia. as-Sakran died after his return from Abyssinia in Mecca and left Sudah without a guardian. After the death of Khadijah, the Prophet married Sudah who was then of an advanced age and had no one to take care of her. She died at the time of caliphate of Mu'awiyah in Medina in the year 54 AH.

3-'A'ishah, daughter of Abu Bakr The Prophet proposed marriage with 'A'ishah in the same year as with Sudah, but he took the former to his house in Medina after the battle of Badr upon the insistence of her father, Abu Bakr. 4-Hafsah, daughter of 'Umar Hafsah, daughter of the second caliph, 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, was born five years before the ordainment of the Prophet of Islam. At first she wedded Khunays, son of Hudhafah, and immigrated with him to Medina.

In the battle of Badr, he died after being wounded, leaving Hafsah a widow. Her father, 'Umar, was looking for a husband for her among the Prophet's friends, and at first made a proposal to 'Uthman who was rich and of the Umayyads, and though his wife Ruqayyah who was the Prophet's daughter, had died, 'Uthman did not agree to this proposal of marriage and gave a negative answer. 'Umar asked Abu Bakr to marry Hafsah, but Abu Bakr, too, refused.

So 'Umar who was offended with the refusal of two distinguished friends of the Prophet, complained to the Prophet against them, and the Prophet settled the matter by himself marrying Hafsah. Hafsah died in the lunar month of Sha'ban in the year 45 AH in the caliphate of Mu'awiyah.