Prayer beside the Kaaba
· Kaaba, Great Mosque of Mecca, Mecca, Hejaz, Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia)
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 · file A traditional report identifies Khadija as the woman who joined Muhammad and Ali in prayer facing the Kaaba, documenting her presence at the sanctuary during Islam’s earliest period. The report itself is dated only to the pre-Islamic/Jahiliyyah period; 610 is the conventional year associated with the beginning of Muhammad’s revelations and the early Islamic chronology.
