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As soon as the camel-driver saw Mohammed he stopped him and said: "My mistress wishes to see you before noon. I think she intends to engage you to take charge of her caravans." Mohammed waited to hear no more. As quickly as possible he went to the house of Khadijah; for he was well pleased at the thought of being employed in so important a service. The widow received him in a very friendly way.
When his reason returned he asked the meaning of the great spread of viands, the canopy, and the chapleted heads of the guests. Thereupon he was told it was the marriage-feast of Mahomet and Khadijah, and his wrath and amazement were great, for had he not by his presence given sanction to the nuptials? The incident throws some light upon the marriage laws current at the time.
Khadijah, his companion and sustainer through so many troublous years, died in 619, having borne with him all his revilings and discouragements, his source of strength even when there appeared no prospect of the abatement of his hardships, much less for the success of his cause. Mahomet's grief was too profound for the passing shadow of it even to darken the pages of the Kuran.
When they reached Mecca, Khadijah sold the merchandise and found her wealth doubled, so careful had Mahomet been to ensure the prosperity of his client, and before long love grew up in her heart for this tall, grave youth, who was faithful in small things as well as in great.
Khadijah, though forty and a widow, was still under the guardianship of her father, having passed to him after the death of her husband, and his consent was needed before she married again. The marriage contracted by mutual desire was followed by a time of leisure and happiness, which Mahomet remembered all his life.
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.” The beginning of this lunar reckoning is from the day of the proclamation of the prophethood of Muḥammad in the country of Ḥijáz; and that was three years after His mission, because in the beginning the prophethood of Muḥammad was kept secret, and no one knew it save Khadíjah and Ibn Nawfal.
Wandering on the mountain, he saw in a vision the angel Gabriel seated on a throne between heaven and earth, and afraid before so much glory, ran to Khadijah, beseeching her to cover him with his mantle that the evil spirits whom he felt so near him might be avoided. Thereupon Gabriel came down to earth and revealed the Sura of Admonition.
Khadijah then engaged him as the manager of her business; and he served her well and faithfully. She thought a great deal of him, and he was much attracted to her, and soon they came to love one another and were married. As he was now the husband of a rich woman he did not need to work very hard. He still continued to attend to his wife's business; but he did not make so many journeys as before.
Therefore as she was the first to awaken to her desire for him, the first advances come from her. She sent her sister to Mahomet to induce him to change his mind upon the subject of marriage, and when he found that the rich and gracious Khadijah offered him her hand, he could not believe his good fortune, and assured the sister that he was eager to make her his wife.
So she went away and after a while behold, in came Hasan, to whom said Al-Maamun 'Hast thou a daughter? He said, 'Yes, and her name is Khadijah. Asked the Caliph, 'Is she married? Answered Hasan, 'No, by Allah! Said Al-Maamun, Then I ask her of thee in marriage. Replied her father, 'O Commander of the Faithful, she is thy handmaid and at thy commandment. Quoth Al-Maamun, 'I take her to wife at a present settlement of thirty thousand dinars, which thou shalt receive this very morning, and, when the money has been paid thee, do thou bring her to us this night. And Hasan answered, 'I hear and I obey. Thereupon we went forth and the Caliph said to me, 'O Isaac, tell this story to no one. So I kept it secret till Al-Maamun's death.
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