Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 51
The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa sa number of fine camels: if I were invited to take part in it during Islām I should do so. " (The Life of Muhammad", Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasulullah", A. . Guilmore, p. 57, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2004). As a Shepherd. While Muḥammad" was still a boy, he took care of someone's animals and moved around with a flock of sheep, goats and camels in a wide area of the Arabian desert. About his experience as a shepherd, he used to say, "Allāh sent no Prophet who was not a shepherd. Moses was a shepherd and David was also a shepherd, and I was a shepherd. I grazed goats of my family at Ajyād (a pasture of Mecca). " (Ibn Sa'd's Al-Ṭabaqat Al-Kabir, Translation by Moʻinul Haq, Kitab Bhavan,. New Delhi, India, Vol. 1, p. 141). Marriage with Hadrat Khadijah*a sa. The Holy Prophet, Muḥammad", grew into manhood exhibiting such sterling qualities of truthfulness, integrity, and piety that he became known throughout the land as the Truthful and the Trustworthy (Al-Sadiq and Al-Amin). On hearing of Muḥammad's" fame, a rich lady by the name of Khadijah", who was twice widowed, invited him to her house and requested him to take charge of her business. Muhammad" travelled to. Syria while in charge of Hadrat Khadijah's business. The expedition met with great success. Hadrat Khadijah", the daughter of Khuwailid bin Asad bin 'Abdul ‘Uzzā bin Quṣayy, was an intelligent and noble woman. She made a proposal of marriage to Muḥammad" which was accepted. At the time of his marriage, Muḥammad" was twenty-five years old while Ḥadrat ra 51