Wives of prophet Muhammad SAW

why 12 Wives for the prophet muhammad saw?

1. In the name of Allah, Most
Merciful, Most Compassionate

2. Why did the Prophet Mohammad
(PBUH) have many wives?

3. If someone asks you that question,
either in a good or in a bad intention,
will you be able to answer?

4. Here is the answer, as given in a lecture by Amro
Khalid
about the Mothers of the believers
( the Prophet’s wives )

5. Let’s first ask ourselves,
how many wives did the Prophet had?

6. They were twelve. When he died there
were ten wives with him,
while Khadija and Zaynab died in his life

7. But do you know their names, the names
of your mothers, the mothers of the
believers?

8. They are:
Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid
Sawdah Bint Zamaah
Aaishah Bint Abi Bakr
Hafsah Bint Omar
Zainab Bint Khuzaymah
Om-salamah , Hind Bint Otbah
Zainab Bint Jahsh
Juwayriyah Bint Alharith
Safiyah Bint Huyay Ibn Akhtab
Ommo Habibah Ramlah Bint Abi
Sofian
Maria Bint Shamoun, the Egyptian
Maymonah Bint Alharith

9. Did the Prophet’s (PBUH) wives
married someone for the first time
(i.e. were they all virgins)?

10. Only one, Aaishah, all the rest were
either widows or divorced.

11. Were they all Arabs?

12. All, except for Mariya, who was from
Egypt.

13. Where they all Muslims?

14. All but two ; Safiya who was a Jew ,
and Mariya who was a Christian.

15. Now, let’s answer the main and very important
question: Was it lust that caused the prophet
(PBUH) to have so many marriages?

16. To answer the question we have
to mention the following facts:

17. 1- The Prophet married for the first
time when he was 25 years old.

18. 2- The first woman he married , Khadijah
was 40 years old already married twice
before him and had children. He stayed
married to her alone for 25 years, until she
died. He stayed single after her death for
two years in grief and mourning over her
death. He was then 52 years old.

19. 3- From 52 till 60, he married several times for political
and social reasons, not for lust (Naooz Billah)….
After two years of living single , he married Sawdah, an
80 year old widow in order to honor her because she was
the first widow in Islam. Not an act of a lustful man after
a period of living single.

20. It’s not logical to say that lust had
appeared suddenly at the Prophet’s life
at 52, and at the middle of the fierce
physical and psychological struggle to
spread Islam

21. There is only one conclusion we can extract from
the above:
1- Mohammad (PBUH) the man married Khadijah
2- Mohammad (PBUH) the Prophet married the
rest of his wives.

22. But , was Mohammad (PBUH) the
only Prophet to have multiple wives?
Or polygamy was taken by other
Prophets as well?

23. The answer is : NO. Polygamy
was the norm at the times of Ibrahim,
Dawoud, Solayman, all known in the
Bible to have been polygamists.

24. Now, let’s mention the political, social
and religious reasons the prophet
(PBUH) had these marriages.

25. First: To spread the culture through eyewitnesses with all
the details known only to intimate people. Hazrat
Aaishah (R.A), being so young, was able to tell all those
details to the Muslims for more than 42 years. She had
seen and learnt so much from him. Her young age was a
great advantage in this respect. She could tell what the
Prophet (pbuh) used to do or say in all aspects of life, so
that people do and say the same in the similar
situations…

26. Hazrat Aaishah (R.A), was the most
knowledgeable person when it comes to the
daily life of the Muslims and how it should go
as was lived by the Prophet (PBUH) himself .
But how can he (PBUH) married her when she
was only nine years old? The desert climate
answers to that . In such environment Girls
reached youth very young. Not only in Arabia,
but also in Roma and Persia, girls were
married that young

27. Second: To strengthen the relationships with his
companions, he married Abi Bakr’s daughter and
Omar's sister, married his daughters to Othman and
Ali, May God be pleased with them all.

28. Third: out of mercy and rewarding the early Muslim
widows and divorcees he (PBUH) gave them the honor
of marrying them himself (Husbands either died in
battles or were non Muslims who divorced them.).
Sawdah, Om-salama and Habeebah were widows.

29. Fourth: The Prophet (PBUH) was being a role model
for the Muslims being kind to the widows and to the
people of the book who newly embraced Islam.
He (PBUH) married Safiyah after her father , a Jew,
embraced Islam , so giving him and his daughter the
honor among his people

30. Fifth: He (PBUH) wanted to have ties and links with the
different nations of the world. When he married Mariya, all
Egyptians were on his side, and when he married Gowayriyah,
all her people (they were called the Bani Almustalaq and were
captured by the Muslims after a battle),, they all embraced
Islam

31. I wish this makes you more assured and able take
a stand up to allegations against the Prophet (PBUH).
May peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you all.