Nafisa, daughter of Munya, said:
She was Khadijah, daughter of Khuwaylid, son of Asad, son of al-Uzza, son of Qusayy,
A resolute, hardy, noble woman,
She was of the middle lineage among the Quraysh and the wealthiest of them in wealth.
And each of her people would have been eager to marry her if he had been able to do so.
And indeed they sought her and spent money on her,
So she sent me as a schemer to Muhammad after he returned from Syria.
I said to Muhammad, "What prevents you from marrying?"
He said, "I have nothing with which to get married."
I said: If that would be enough, and you were asked for beauty, wealth, honor, and suitability, would you not answer?
He said, "Then who is she?"
I said, 'Khadija.'
He said: And how about that?
I said, "Ali."
He said, "And I will do it."
So I went and told her.
So she sent word to him asking him to come at a certain hour.
She sent to her uncle Amr ibn Asad to have him marry her, and he came.
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, entered into his general protection and married her when he was twenty-five years old.
Khadijah was then forty years old.
Some scholars reported that Abu Talib attended the marriage contract accompanied by the Banu Mudar.
Abu Talib said, "Praise be to God, who made us from the descendants of Abraham."
and the offspring of Isma'il, the descendants of Ma'ad, and the branch of Mudar.
And He made for us custodianship of His House and guardianship of its sanctuary.
And make for us a well-protected house and a safe sanctuary,
And We made the rulers over the people.
Then indeed, the son of my brother, this Muhammad, son of Abdullah.
No leg is weighed with it without tipping the balance.
So if there is little wealth,
For wealth is a fleeting shadow and a thing that obstructs.
And Muhammad is someone whose kinship you already knew,
And Khadijah bint Khuwaylid was betrothed, and her dowry, both its deferred and its immediate parts, was paid from my wealth,
And after this, by God, for him is a great report and a weighty, grave matter.
Then the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, married her.
