Sandersville, Georgia Early Years and Family Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Robert Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, on October 7, 1897. In 1986, when Muhammad Ali Jr. was 14 years old, his father, the greatest boxer alive, picked up the teen for a visit. Muhammad died on February 25, 1975, after a period of declining health. At age 14, the rule states that both people must be the same age. Maymunah bint Al-Harith, http://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Ages_of_Muhammads_Wives_at_Marriage&oldid=135622, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0), Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0. She was 72 years old. The third problem with Khadijahs age is the common-sense consideration that she bore Muhammad six children over a period of ten years. Muhammad was around 20 years older than he when they married. Muhammad did indeed marry his first wife Khadijah, who was the same age as himself, when they were both young. [24] McGee went on to form a Sunni Muslim sect and changed his name to Hamaas Abdul Khaalis. However, the age of her first husband is, however, recorded. Wife of Elijah Muhammad, Mother of Imam W. Deen Mohammed. He said he was 60 at the time of the Hijra and that he lived another 60 years afterwards. Farrakhan refers to them as wives in a nominal sense, but legally and publically Clara was Elijah Muhammad's only wife. CHICAGOOn February 24, the Grand Ballroom at the McCor- mick Place Convention Center Chicago was flooded with young people ages 13-35. Muhammad's son Elijah, 22, said he and his siblings also enjoyed the rare chance to attend college with their mom. The only consistency amongst the reports is that Maymunah lived to be about 80. 4. June 16, 2022. [24] His letters also revealed what he knew of Fard, alleging he was John Walker of Gary who had come to America at 27 from Greece, had served prison time for stealing, and raping a 17-year-old girl, and had died in Chicago, Illinois, at 78. And we will state here that Sawdah was the oldest bride whom Muhammad ever married. Ibn Kathir frankly admits: The fourth surah of the Qur'an is long and was probably not written all at once. [92] There is not any concrete data for calculation of her age though. Fraser, C. Gerald. However, through the conversion of his fellow inmates as well as renewed efforts outside prison, he was able to redouble his efforts and continue growing the Nation. The problem is, he openly admits that he did not convert until the conquest of Mecca in 8 AH (January 630). Age, Height, and Weight Being born on 11 May 1933, Louis Farrakhan is 89 years old as of today's date 22nd February 2023. If he became a Muslim in 8 AH, this was only 46 years before his death and not 60. . [24], After the letters were sent, 7 of Khaalis' family members were murdered at the Hanafi Madh-Hab Center. Why should Aisha, with her extraordinary memory,[54] her penchant for details and her talent for arithmetic,[55] have been any exception? [87] So her latest possible birthdate is mid-613. The Prophet married Zaynab bint Jahsh on the first of Dhul-Qada 5. But in fact Muhammad must have married Mulaykah earlier than this. [60] Her fifth choice, it seems, fell on a high-status and already-married man old enough to be her father when she was in her late 20's. He instead led a breakaway group in 1978, which he also called the Nation of Islam. In 1972 the Nation of Islam took controlling interest in a bank, the Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. Nation of Islam-owned schools expanded until, by 1974, the group had established schools in 47 cities throughout the United States. [72] It seems that he married Mulaykah during his fortnight of residence in the city, i.e. His height is 1.78 m tall, and his weight is 56 kg. [25] Abdullah ibn Abbas says: This tradition was strong enough to be accepted by Ibn Ishaq. Maymunah is no more! But it is unlikely. Cited in Khandhlawi, M. M. Y. The Nation of Islam is estimated to have between 20,000 and 50,000 members,[22] and 130 mosques offering numerous social programs.[23]. The fourth year of prophethood was indeed the ninth year before the Hijra (25 October 613 - 13 October 614). The Formative Years: 1899-1930. by Zakiyyah Muhammad. 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. His family emigrated to Medina three years later,[79] and soon afterwards, Al-Fadl petitioned Muhammad to arrange a marriage for him. Early Life. Yes, there's a crown of thorns on my head. [38] It explains why, after twenty years of marriage, he began thinking about younger women,[39] for Khadijah would have been at that time menopausal and first losing her looks. Poole soon became an ardent follower of Fard and joined his movement, as did his wife and several brothers. [35] Many people suspected that the Nation of Islam was responsible for the killing of Malcolm X. There is alot of guesswork that went into this estimation, but it is an estimate based on real data about Amrahs life. The Messenger of Allah married me when I was six and consummated the marriage when, Allahs Apostle married me when I was six years old, and I was admitted to his house when, The Prophet married Aisha in Shawwal in the tenth year after the prophethood [13 May - 10 June 620], three years before the. [21], During his time as leader of the Nation of Islam, Muhammad had developed the Nation of Islam from a small movement in Detroit to an empire consisting of banks, schools, restaurants, and stores across 46 cities in America. Most of Elijah's story is told in 1 Kings 17-19 and 2 Kings 1-2. For a start, Ibn Ishaq disagrees. Yahya ibn Mandah even wrote a book entitled Those of the Companions who Lived 120 Years, in which he lists fourteen 120-year-old Muslims. Upon his death, his son Warith Deen Mohammed succeeded him. Hafsah was born when the Quraysh were building the House, five years before the Prophet was sent. I don't know if that is the ultimate origin, but it tickles me to suppose it might be. Mariyahs age is not stated anywhere. We know such ignorant, foolish teaching would bring him to his own end. He married Zaynab in late 5 AH, so Ibn Ishaqs date of 6 AH for the raid seems to be the correct one. "[28] The New York Times wrote, "in further criticism of Mr. Kennedy, the Muslim leader cited the murders of Patrice Lumumba, Congo leader, of Medgar Evers, civil rights leader, and of the Negro girls bombed earlier this year in a Birmingham, Alabama, church. [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. When did Sawdah reach menopause? It is practically certain that the sentence Sawdah became old really only means Sawdah reached menopause.[43]. If Khadijah was 28 at that time, she was born in the year between March 568 and March 569, some dozen years later than Hakim ibn Hizam claimed. The black velvet, jeweled kofia, embroidered with the words "Elijah Muhammad, Our King, Messenger of Allah," will open with bidding at $10,000. While this could tell us more about Asmas education than her age (she was, after all, a princess), it is clear that she was no child-bride. She was then 60 years old. Then the Apostle divided the property, wives and children of the Qurayza tribe among the Muslims The apostle had chosen one of their women for himself, Rayhanah bint Amr ibn Khunafa, one of the women of the Amr clan of the Qurayza, and she remained with him until she died, in his power. This gives us Aishas date of birth to within six weeks. Richard Brent Turner, "From Elijah Poole to Elijah Muhammad". The only objective clue to Fatimas age is that she lived another 50 years after Muhammad divorced her. [Ramlahs marriage] occurred in the year 7 AH. Mulaykahs exact age is not given, but there is a clue in this statement. So an old woman was simply one who was too old to have children possibly a healthy, active, sharp-minded woman as young as 40. Since Ibn Kathir is a source far removed in time from the life of the prophet, for calculation it will be assumed that thirty-odd means 36 and that Ramlah was born in 30 BH. He was Muhammads cousin, Al-Fadl ibn Abbas. Asmas age is unknown but her age-range is clearly implied in the sources. [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". If she was about 30 in 4 AH, she was born in October 596, plus or minus a few years. The Ages Of Elijah Muhammad's Wives Revealed: Did Malcolm X Bring Receipts? That would make her only 64, not 65, at her death in 50 AH. "We got in the car, and I said I needed to stop for something to eat . During that time, his wife, Clara, and trusted aides ran the organization; Muhammad transmitted his messages and directives to followers in letters. Section 3.2.1. Asma = 59 years and 3 months (not consummated, but legalities finalised). The widows whom Prophet Muhammad married after Khadijahs death do indeed fall into two distinct age-groups. The prayer was unlawful for my aunt before the Messenger of Allah was born. Hakims statement, The prayer was unlawful for her, means she menstruated, but he is speaking as the people of Islam speak. 9 WIVES. 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. Muhammad most likely considered divorcing Sawdah in December 626 or January 627 expressly because he wanted to marry a fifth woman but was trying to observe the limit of four wives. Consequently, Mr. Muhammad, while in Washington, D.C. Was arrested on May 8, 1942, for allegedly evading the draft. Ibn Abbas was the cousin who lived at Muhammads side through the final years in Medina. Muhammad died on 12 Rabi-Awwal 11 AH (i.e., in the middle of the third month) (10 June 632). The same nephew who said she died at age 53 also said: Thirty-five years before 5 AH brings us to a birth-year of 31 BH (20 June 592 - 8 June 593), a discrepancy of three years. NFL player Jason Kelce and his wife invite special guest to Super . This is mathematically inconsistent. [citation needed], Elijah Muhammad took control of Temple No. He purchased land and businesses to provide housing and employment for young black males. While in Detroit he met Wallace Fard Muhammad who was the founder of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam. After the disappearance, Elijah Muhammad told followers that Allah had come as Wallace Fard, in the flesh, to share his teachings that are a salvation for his followers. I saw Umar ibn Al-Khattab pray over Zaynab bint Jahsh in 20 AH [641 CE] on a summer day, and I saw a cloth stretched over her grave. This means it is quite difficult to calculate comparative dates. Elijah Poole was born October 7, 1897, in Sandersville, Georgia, the fifth child of a Baptist minister. Perhaps she was still in her thirties when she bore Muhammads children. [3] Nor does he seem to have been embarrassed by his own preference. Perhaps that was because Khadijahs fertility was a commonplace for a woman of her age. Elijah served as the inspiration and mentor to several personalities, such as Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, and Muhammad Ali, who led the movement further. Still facing death threats, Elijah left his family there and traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he founded Temple No. Ahmed, S. Prophet Muhammad and Aisha Siddiqa., Akhter, J. Nevertheless, the traditional view of her age is probably wrong. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions. The data about Hind (Umm Salama) is precise, and there are no variant traditions. In The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X talks about when he first encounters this doctrine, though he would later come to regret that he ever believed in it.[18]. But all his wives were elderly ladies or widows except [Aisha and Mariyah]. [24] The only reason why Abdullah has been largely ignored on the subject of Khadijah is that he never knew her personally while Hakim ibn Hizam did. While Muhammad was in prison, the growth of the Nation of Islam had stagnated, with fewer than 400 members remaining by the time of his release in 1946. His father was a sharecropper and his mother was a domestic worker. In fact the early historians give numerous suggestions for birth-dates other than the 12th, which the calculator tells was in any case a Friday and not a Monday. [The apostle] attacked the Mustaliq branch of the Khuzaa tribe in. Rather it appears that (like most rules of his stature) Muhammad preferred younger women. Who was Muhammad's favorite wife? Mother of the Nation offers the definitive biography of Clara Evans Muhammad, a Black woman who became the center of an unprecedented racial and religious transformation in the US.. Skillfully constructed to illustrate 20th-century racial conditions in America,this thought-provoking biography by Dr. Zakiyyah Muhammad recreates the life and times of an illustrious woman who, in promoting the . [12] Since children generally know the ages of their playmates, it is assumed that Hakim would have known the age of an aunt who was only two years older than himself. To support the family, he worked with his parents . Elijah Muhammad succeeded him in Detroit and was named "Minister of Islam". 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). Zaynab bint Khuzaymas Median Age = 28 years and 4 months. Hafsahs Median Age = 19 years and 6 months. [9] His younger brother Kalot Muhammad became the leader of the movement's self-defense arm, the Fruit of Islam. They all seem to have been teenagers significantly younger than the mean. If they knew that she had been born at the beginning and not the middle or the end of the year, it is unlikely that they would have been wrong about the year itself. [23] What is more, his mother was a close friend of Khadijahs. Muhammad's first marriage was at the age of 25 to the 40-year-old Khadijah. 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]. Huwaytib ibn Abduluzza lived to be elderly, but he was probably not entitled to his chapter in Yahya ibn Mandahs book. Muhammad grew up in the segregated South and worked alongside his family as a sharecropper. Since she was married at nine, she should have been 19, not 18, when Muhammad died. [20], On January 30, 1975, Muhammad entered Mercy Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, suffering from a combination of heart disease, diabetes, bronchitis, and asthma. Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 February 25, 1975) was an American religious leader, black separatist, and self-proclaimed Messenger of Allah who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1934 until his death in 1975. [85] As a Jew, she would not have been living with her husband before she reached menarche[86] or before the age of 12 years. [citation needed] Muhammad was arrested there, charged with eight counts of sedition for instructing his followers to not register for the draft or serve in the armed forces. The first problem is that according to Bukhari and Muslim Hakim claimed his own age to be 120. These, he said, were instances of other 'chickens coming home to roost'. Elijah Poole Age: 77 (age at death) years Birthday: 7th October, 1897 Birthplace: Sandersville, Georgia, USA . The girl whom Al-Fadl married in 630 was his cousin, Safiya bint Mahmiyah.[80]. Although secondary historians have guessed that she was about 15, this is not stated in the early sources. One group consisted of Aisha, Hafsa, Safiyya and Sauda; and the other group consisted of Umm Salama and the other wives of Allah's Apostle (the . His first marriage was at the age of 25 to the 40-year-old Khadijah. [40], He eventually established Temple Farms, now Muhammad Farms, on a 5,000-acre (20km2) tract in Terrell County, Georgia. In 1977, Louis Farrakhan resigned from Warith Deen's reformed organization and reinstituted the original Nation of Islam upon the foundation established by Wallace Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad. She remained with him for eight months and then died at the end of Rabi al-Akhir at the beginning of the 39th month. Age Difference = (minus) 2 years and 7 months. The real discrepancy can be missed by a casual reader, but it is obvious to anyone familiar with the Islamic calendar. It is possible that Sawdah was also about that age[53] and that she lived to be over 100. As for Zaynab, Allah protected her by her religion and she spoke nothing but good. Judge Henry Budzinski ruled that $3.3 million in assets and $2.4 million in interest accrued since Muhammad`s death Feb. 25, 1975, must be turned over to his estate by Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank . He was the youngest of 13 children. [32], The extramarital affairs, the suspension, and other factors caused a rift between the two men, with MalcolmX leaving the Nation of Islam in March 1964 to form his own religious organization, Muslim Mosque Inc.[33] After dealing with death threats and attempts on his life for a year,[34] MalcolmX was assassinated on February21, 1965. She said, On our return from the expedition of al-Muraysi or shortly after it.. The elderly group would refer to those brides between 28 and 40 while the middle-aged group would mean the teenagers. 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. Based on the above data, it is also possible to calculate Muhammad's age as a bridgegroom in each other cases mentioned above. Khaliah Ali (daughter with Aaisha Fletcher) Date of birth: 1974 Is it really plausible that so many persons (all of them male) lived to be 120? She was still young enough to have been Muhammads daughter. 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). He was one of 13 children of William and Mariah (Hall) Poole. It explains why Muhammad remained attracted to Khadijah for so long when, in later life, he was to reject older women. He was known under many names, "Mr. Evans," his wife's maiden name, "Ghulam Bogans," "Muhammad Rassoull," "Elijah Karriem" and "Muhammad of 'U' Street.". Ibn Ishaq, cited in Guillaume, A. The Prophet married Hafsah in Shabaan 30 months after [the. The Honorable John Muhammad came to Detroit, Michigan in 1923, where he attended several public schools in Detroit. The Prophet returned with Maysara from Syria on the 14th night from the end of Dhul-Hijja in the 25th year from the Day of the Elephant [3 May 595] The Prophet married Khadijah two months and 15 days after his return from Syria, at the end of Safar in the 26th year. Zaynabs life is not well documented, which has led to conjecture about her age. March 21, 1990. Lecker, M. (1995). When she attains puberty, she has the right to maintain the marriage or discontinue the marriage. This makes his age at death no more than 106. The Islamic year consists of twelve lunar cycles and hence it is 354 or 355 days long. Fard turned over leadership of the growing Detroit group to Elijah Muhammad, and the Allah Temple of Islam changed its name to the Nation of Islam. It was the year when Muhammad first preached Islam in public;[56] Aishas parents would not have forgotten what was happening around the city at the time when their daughter was born. [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. With the exception of Aisha, Muhammad only married widows and divorced women . . She had been married to a relative of hers, but he died, and she lost her way, Ibn Abbas said: Asma bint An-Numan was the most beautiful and. Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Robert Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, the seventh of thirteen children of William Poole Sr. (18681942), a Baptist lay preacher and sharecropper, and Mariah Hall (18731958), a homemaker and sharecropper. We can now take an informed estimate of her age at consummation. He promoted black self-sufficiency and self-reliance over integration, and he encouraged African Americans to return to their African homeland. So we can express Aishas birthday as 27 January 614, plus or minus three weeks. "[42] At the 1962 Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Rockwell addressed Nation of Islam members. Tabrani/Haythami vol. These two concubines were presumably selected for their looks and were presumably young. Because he endured, he was able to say in the darkness of his hour, \"Father forgive them for they know not what they do.\" If they understood, they would never have said, \"Crucify him.\" They would never have chosen a thief over the servant of God, if they but understood. [6][15][16], Following his return to Chicago, Elijah Muhammad was firmly in charge of the Nation of Islam. If Khadijah was only two to three years older than Muhammad, this makes sense of a great deal. [18] This means he should have been born in 60 BH (seven years before Muhammad) and should have died in 61 AH (680-681). 1, but only after battles with other potential leaders, including his brother. She displayed a dignity and sense of duty[76] that make her seem more mature than Mulaykah bint Kaab or Fatima bint Al-Dahhak. The prophet Muhammad had 19 or more wives or concubines according to the traditional Islamic sources.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. The ages of these five women are unknown. She married a Qurazi,[84] which means she must have been married before the Nadir tribe was banished from Medina in August 625. That is why his statement that she married Muhammad when she was 40 is usually accepted as true. So Muhammad captured Rayhanah in spring 627, a date when her youngest possible age would have been 14. 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. So Muhammad married Safiyah early in Rabi-Awwal 7 AH (mid-July 628). The year 65 years before the tenth year of prophethood ran between 27 July 556 and 15 July 557, which was 15 years before the Year of the Elephant, so this is internally consistent. Judaism among Kinda and the Ridda of Kinda. To bolster his story, Hakim claimed to remember the episode when Abdulmuttalib ibn Hashim vowed to sacrifice his son Abdullah to the god Hubal but was able to ransom him for 100 camels. The claim that Elijah Muhammad took these women as wives is complicated by the fact that marriage is a state-recognized political union, which obviously was not the relationship that Elijah Muhammad had with these women. Juwayriyahs Median Age = 20 years and 0 months. It is a little strange that such a young man would so soon afterwards take on a second wife, but it is seems that he did so willingly, for Amrah was of no political importance. The money helped Elijah to acquire opulent homes for himself and his family and establish overseas bank accounts. If Muhammad was 53 in 1 AH, then he was only 59 and not 60 in 7 AH; so calling Ramlahs age 35 rather than 36 may also be an approximation, much like Tabaris thirty-odd. Khadijahs Median Age = 26 years and 10 months. Safiyah was yet another bride who was young enough to be Muhammads granddaughter, most likely still being in her teens while Muhammad was in his 50's. 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. In conclusion, Asma was probably in her late teens; but we do not really know. . The Honorable Elijah Muhammad's ministry drew a steady stream of converts into his Nation, an organization designed to return the "so-called Negro" back to his glorious ancient past. According to this, she was born in 30 BH, i.e., between 9 June 593 and 28 May 594 (median = 2 December 593). although older than many of Muhammad's other wives. Muhammads first marriage to Khadijah skews the the mean. came along because it weaned them from Christianity to a fabricated form of Islam. [Ramlah] married the Prophet Muhammad in 1 AH, although she did not actually come to live with him in Medina until 7 AH, when the Prophet was 60 years old and. A noble match, he replied. Al Ghoudairy, F. Why Did Prophet Muhammed Marry Aisha; the Young Girl, p. 24. Sawdah bint Zamaa died in Medina in Shawwal of 54, during the caliphate of Muawiya. What this highlights is that terms like middle-aged and elderly are subjective. Yes, I'm being mocked and ridiculed. In the modern world, this would suggest that she was 65 or 70, which may explain why modern historians have assumed she was very elderly. Although Mulaykah was an older bride, she was almost certainly younger than Aisha. Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) said that the ideal age of a man's wife was half his age, plus seven. 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