(c. 555-619 CE) The first wife of the Prophet who endured many of the burdens of the call to Islam with the Prophet at the beginning of his message. She was a wealthy trader, known to the people as 'The Pure & Chaste one'. After having Muhammad ﷺ work as her business agent she was so impressed with his character that she proposed marriage to him ﷺ; when he ﷺ was twenty-five and she was around forty. They had four daughters and two sons, both of whom died in infancy. She was sixty-five when she passed away; a year known in the prophet's life as: The Year of Sorrow.