But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.\"- Isaiah 53:5 \"Jesus endured. He spent much of his time reading 104 books suggested by Wallace Fard at the Library of Congress. Four men from NOI Mosque No. This makes it very clear that Muhammad was already married to Zaynab during this controversy, which arose before the warriors had even arrived home from the al-Muraysi expedition. If Khadijah was only two to three years older than Muhammad, this makes sense of a great deal. [30], Rumors were circulating that Elijah was conducting extramarital affairs with young Nation secretarieswhich would constitute a serious violation of Nation teachings. It covers many family issues, including inheritance rights. [6][14][15], On May 8, 1942, Elijah Muhammad was arrested for failure to register for the draft during World War II. Sandersville, Georgia Early Years and Family Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Robert Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, on October 7, 1897. He added that "chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad. They were attending the Nation of Islam's Saviours' Day 2023Youth Summit, themed "WeAreAt War," called forth by the Hon- orable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Robert Poole on October 7th, in 1897. Some say that Khadijah died at 65, but age 50 is sounder. Islamic apologists and du'aah often make the claim that he married many of these women because they were widows, elderly, or otherwise destitute and in need of his aide. [24], The letters stated blacks had been better off "from a psychological point of view" before Fard If Zaynab was 53 in 20 AH, she was born in 34 BH between 23 July 589 and 11 July 590 (median = 15 January 590). Two daughters and six sons including notable: In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Elijah Muhammad on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.[50]. Yes, I'm in great pain. The elderly group would refer to those brides between 28 and 40 while the middle-aged group would mean the teenagers. In the 1959 typed note, up for sale for $95,000 at MomentsInTime.com, X writes to his mentor, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, that his wife, Betty Shabazz, had complained that he had. While it is possible that Aishas remarks on Maymunahs death are apocryphal (the sources are not particularly early), the story lends strength to an alternative tradition that Maymunah died about a decade before 61 AH. [23] What is more, his mother was a close friend of Khadijahs. Personal communication with native speakers of Arabic. Zaynab bint Khuzayma = 53 years and 10 months. However, there are problems with Hakims assertion. [81] He was also said to be the eldest son of a very wealthy man,[82] so if he wanted a second wife, there was nothing to stop him taking one. In the 1930s, Muhammad formally established the Nation of Islam, a religious movement that originated under the leadership and teachings of Wallace Fard Muhammad and that promoted black supremacy, pride, economic empowerment, and racial segregation. in the second half of January 630. She might have been considerably older than this minimum. Muhammad workforce in Cordele, GA with his 13 siblings. If she was about 30 in 4 AH, she was born in October 596, plus or minus a few years. She would have been the same age as her bridegroom or a little younger. Hinds Median Age = 28 years and 6 months. (2013). It is claimed that he split the moon and travelled to Jerusalem and back in one night. We know such ignorant, foolish teaching would bring him to his own end. Format BW photograph, 8.5" x 11" If Sawdah was menopausal in 626, or perhaps 625, this suggests she was then aged about 45, making her around 40 when she married Muhammad. Ernest 2X McGee was the first national secretary of the NOI and had been ousted in the late 1950s. If she had lived to be 134, or even 114, someone would have commented. As a leader, Muhammad served as a mentor to many notable members, including Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Louis Farrakhan and his son Warith Deen Mohammed. Khaalis sent letters that were critical of Muhammad and Fard to Muhammad, his ministers, and the media. She was the most pious of all of us and the most devoted to her relatives.. This is mathematically inconsistent. Young people are usually accurate about their ages (When my husband was killed, I was definitely 20, not 19 or 21) whereas the elderly are more likely to use round numbers (I think this will be my final illness, for Im already in my mid-60s). He did this on the occasion of the raid on the Mustaliq tribe, and the lot fell on me, so the apostle took me out. Into thy hands do I command my spirit. Zaynabs Median Age = 37 years and 2 months. Juwayriyahs Median Age = 20 years and 0 months. Hafsah died in Shabaan AH 45 during the caliphate of Muawiya. According to Umar ibn Uthman [ibn Abdullah al-Jahshi] from his father: Zaynab bint Jahsh died at the age of 53.. If Hakim ibn Hizam was not literally 120, nor is it necessarily true that Khadijah (or any other person) was the age he claimed for her. Muhammad was in prison from 1942 to 1946 for sedition and so his wife ran the organization while he was in jail. The Formative Years: 1899-1930. by Zakiyyah Muhammad. Her marriage was consummated in the tenth month of the first year AH. Huwaytib ibn Abduluzza lived 120 years, 60 of them in the, On the day Khadijah married Allahs Messenger, she was. Muhammad Ali Jr. (son with Khalilah Ali) Year of Birth: 1972 He is the fourth child to the great star and also the only biological son born to Ali. It explains why Muhammad remained attracted to Khadijah for so long when, in later life, he was to reject older women. Khadijah was two years older than me. They do not give precise information about how old the women were. Modern commentaries claiming that Zaynab was in late middle age[64] thus seem to be off the mark. As for the date of the wedding: The year 8 AH did not end until 22 April 630 CE. The Rabi'-Awwal of 17 years earlier fell between 14 January and 12 February 612, giving Safiyah a birthdate of 28 January 612, plus or minus a fortnight. We can now take an informed estimate of her age at consummation. It looks as if this man had already been a suitor before it became politically necessary for Mulaykah to marry Muhammad. He gives a long list of excuses for the delay in his conversion[17] but he never checks his arithmetic. A further complication is that nobody is certain that the pre-Hijri year was exactly the same as the Muslim year that was standardised after the Hijra. [14] But Hakims ability to recite details that were already common knowledge does not prove he was an eyewitness to the event: he might well have heard the story from his parents. He never called it a blessing similar to Sarahs gestation of Isaac[35] or Elizabeths of John the Baptist. In addition, Elijah shows up near the end of the Hebrew scriptures in 2 Chronicles 21:12-15 (letter telling Judah's king Jehoram about his forthcoming and rather gruesome death). Quran 4:7-11 was written to answer the complaint of an Uhud widow,[44] so it must date from after 22 March 625. He was previously married to Clara Evans. In Shawwal 5 AH [Jibreel said]: God commands you, Muhammad, to go to the Qurayza tribe. He besieged them for 25 nights until they were sore pressed, and God cast terror into their hearts. He had killed her father the day of the conquest of Mecca [14 January 630]. Warith disbanded the Nation of Islam in 1976 and founded an orthodox mainstream Islamic organization, that came to be known as the American Society of Muslims. I asked, How old was she when she died? He said, . Elijah Muhammad succeeded him in Detroit and was named "Minister of Islam". He was succeeded as head of the NOI by his son, Wallace Muhammad, who renamed the organization as the World Community of al-Islam in the West. [27], On December1, 1963, when asked for a comment about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, MalcolmX said that it was a case of "chickens coming home to roost". [36] In fact nobody expressed even mild surprise that a woman of Khadijahs age had produced so many children. I curse not God. Khaliah Ali (daughter with Aaisha Fletcher) Date of birth: 1974 Ibn Kathir frankly admits: The fourth surah of the Qur'an is long and was probably not written all at once. After the Prophet's death, Maymunah continued to live in Medina for another forty years, dying at the age of 80, in 51 AH [21 January 671 - 10 January 672], being the last but one of the Prophet's wives to die. Muhammads Age at Marriage = 57 years and 10 months. However, the age of her first husband is, however, recorded. While in Detroit he met Wallace Fard Muhammad who was the founder of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam. '9 Wives' examines the alleged affairs and last moments 9 Wives examines an alleged affair and last moments of the late leader of the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad. Wallace Muhammad later changed his name as part of his own transition to Sunni Islam (or "orthodox Islam") and is now known as Imam Warith Deen Mohammed. (Although there is a variant tradition that she did not die until 56 AH,[65] this tradition does not state her age at death, so we shall ignore it.) "[42] At the 1962 Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Rockwell addressed Nation of Islam members. [3] Nor does he seem to have been embarrassed by his own preference. To suggest that, contrary to her clear statement, she miscalculated or fabricated her own age is not logical. Clara Evans Muhammad (1899-1972), was a mother who had a mission that was so vastly different from the world she knew it changed the course of history. [39] For more than ten years Elijah received major financial support from white supremacist Texas oil baron H. L. Hunt due to Elijah's belief in racial separation from whites. The age difference between Muhammad and Sawdah was not inappropriate for a middle-aged couple; but she was almost certainly the younger spouse. Towards the end of his life, Muhammad acquired a few women whose age in years was even younger than Aishas. It does seem odd that Aisha would give the wrong sequence for two such dramatic events as the raid at al-Muraysi and the Prophets marriage to Zaynab. The only aim of this marriage was to help someone who was left alone. For a start, Ibn Ishaq disagrees. It explains how she was able to produce six children in ten years and why she then stopped childbearing. He purchased land and businesses to provide housing and employment for young black males. It is possible that Sawdah was also about that age[53] and that she lived to be over 100. If Hafsah died at the age of 60 Islamic years, she would have been born in 607 (median = 4 July 607), two years later than Ibn Saad claims. Judaism among Kinda and the Ridda of Kinda. Cited in Khandhlawi, M. M. Y. Clara Muhammad m. 19171972 Tynnetta Muhammad m. ?1975 Elijah Muhammad / Wife Clara Muhammad, wife of Elijah Muhammad, the Black Muslim leader, died yesterday after a long illness. The short film,. However, Al-Fadl divorced Amrah within a matter of months, and she was afterwards married to Muhammad. He promoted black self-sufficiency and self-reliance over integration, and he encouraged African Americans to return to their African homeland. But if she was only about 40 on her wedding day, she must have survived to her mid-90s, which is impressive but plausible (but once again emblamatic of the problem of the Islamic tradition attributing extremely and even absurdly long lives to the companions and taabi'uun). I was with my brother Fadl I was then eight years old while my brother was 13.[78], If Al-Fadl was 13 in 627, he was born in late 613 or 614 that is, he was exactly the same age as Aisha. Farrakhan regained many of the Nation of Islam's original properties including the National Headquarters Mosque #2 (Mosque Maryam) and Muhammad University of Islam in Chicago. [24], After the letters were sent, 7 of Khaalis' family members were murdered at the Hanafi Madh-Hab Center. Malcolm Flex TV 2.87K subscribers Subscribe 2.4K views Streamed 3 years ago Support the stream:. It can thus be surmised from the sources that Hafsah was between 17 and 19 years old, an adult but very young woman. Why should Aisha, with her extraordinary memory,[54] her penchant for details and her talent for arithmetic,[55] have been any exception? Muhammad confirmed the rumors in 1963, attempting to justify his behavior by referring to precedents set by Biblical prophets. As a youngster Elijah worked in the fields and on the railroad, but he left home at age 16 to travel and work at odd jobs. He was Muhammads cousin, Al-Fadl ibn Abbas. [51] If Muhammad had not been contemplating marriage to a fifth woman, there would have been no point in divorcing Sawdah, for she was no trouble to him at home. [44] In total, it is estimated that he had 23 children of which 21 are documented. Consequently, Mr. Muhammad, while in Washington, D.C. Was arrested on May 8, 1942, for allegedly evading the draft. Hakim ibn Hizam said, The Messenger of Allah married Khadijah when she was 40 and the Messenger of Allah was 25. The Muslims therefore began the march to Khaybar in late May or early June 628 and were back in Medina before the end of July according to ibn Ishaq. The other women with whom he is known to have had a sexual relationship are the five listed below, four of whom were technically concubines (sex slaves) rather than legal wives. No data remains extant for the remainder of Muhammad's wives. It is finished. Elijah Muhammad girlfriend, wife list. He was one of 13 children of William and Mariah (Hall) Poole. The organization would dissolve, change names and reorganize many times. If she had been courted but not married, this also suggests that she was very young. While this date, not found in the major hadith collections, might be an educated fabrication rather than literally historical, there are no rival suggestions for Muhammad and Khadijahs wedding date. This supports a date of 5 AH, though earlier than the eleventh month of Dhul-Qada, for the marriage to Juwayriyah. More likely, there was some culturally understood convention attached to the number 120. [88] Various guesses that she was 20[89] or 17[90] betray the assumptions of the secondary historians that if she attracted Muhammad, she must have been young. The rule (in the form of specifying the ideal age for a man's (younger) wife) was taught by Elijah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam, as noted in The Autobiography of Malcolm X*. The first problem is that according to Bukhari and Muslim Hakim claimed his own age to be 120. If he had long ago mentioned that Khadijah was two years older than himself, he might have needed to stick to his story about her relative age and readjust her chronological age in order to keep it consistent with his claims about his own age. Aisha was married in the first year AH (19 July 622 - 7 July 623) and widowed in the eleventh (1 April 632 - 20 March 633). Since Muhammad fell ill and then died in early June 632,[83] the latest possible date for his marriage to Amrah would be May 632. Some statisticians would exclude her as an outlier before they began the calculation. These, he said, were instances of other 'chickens coming home to roost'. I shared my dad. Farrakhan refers to them as wives in a nominal sense, but legally Clara was Elijah Muhammad's only wife. Ibn Kathir, writing 700 years after the event, was either trying to harmonize the conflict without considering all the facts or merely restating the words of someone else who likewise failed to consider the facts. It is not impossible for a human to live 120 years but it is an exception to the general rule and in this case is almost certainly an embellishment of the tradition. Purchase his music and books, join his live chats - Be a part of The Rasul Exerience right here! . To call such a woman middle-aged, even in Arabia at the time, seems uncalled for. Help us build our profile of Elijah Muhammad! The apostle stayed in Medina during Dhul-Hijja and part of al-Muharram Then he marched against Khaybar The apostle seized the property piece by piece and conquered the forts one by one as he came to them The apostle took captives from them, among whom was Safiyah bint Huyayy ibn Akhtab. It should thus be kept in mind that the calculation that Muhammads average wife was 29 years younger than himself and that she became his bride when she was 24 should be seen as conservative, and under representing both the age gap and the youth of Muhammad's female lover in each case. After her death in 619 CE, [4] he married a total of 10 women over the remaining years of his life. Maymunah died in the year 61 AH during the caliphate of Yazid ibn Muawiya. Using the median as an approximation yields the following result: Far from being a much older woman, it appears that Khadijah might have been the only one of Muhammads wives who was close to him in age. Aisha was the youngest bride whom Muhammad married. His parents were former slaves who worked as sharecroppers (farming the owner's land for a share of the crops) on a cotton plantation; his father was also a Baptist preacher. From age 25 to 50 he was faithful to only one wife, Khadijah, who bore all his children except one. He rejected Sawdah, who was a little younger than himself, when they were both middle-aged. His father was a sharecropper and his mother was a domestic worker. Hafsahs Median Age = 19 years and 6 months. But presumption is not fact. So I wrapped myself in my smock [Safwan ibn al-Muattal al-Sulami] passed me He saw my form and came and stood over me. We do not know how old Amrah was in 631, but Al-Fadl was 17, so it is reasonable to suggest that Amrah was about 15 a couple of years younger than Aisha. However, we must bear in mind that Zaynab might have been some three years younger than this. The money helped Elijah to acquire opulent homes for himself and his family and establish overseas bank accounts. The Messenger of Allah married her at the end of the month of Shawwal 4 AH [on or before 6 April 626]. [8][bettersourceneeded]. In the culture of the medieval Arabs, when a womans value to society depended on her capacity to bear children, a woman only had three life-stages: childhood (before she could bear children), adulthood (childbearing age) and old age (when she was past childbearing). Although secondary historians have guessed that she was about 15, this is not stated in the early sources. Since the mean age of menarche was 12 years,[71] this indicates that Mulaykah was about 13, plus or minus a couple of years. That is why his statement that she married Muhammad when she was 40 is usually accepted as true. This kind of accolade would be absurd for a woman who was older than 20. 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