“Marriage is part of my Sunnah and whoever disregards

(my Sunnah) is not from us.”

As the Final Messenger of God to mankind, Prophet Muhammad (SAWA), who promulgated the most universally comprehensive shari’a, led the most excellently exemplary life.
He practiced whatever he preached, and whatever he preached became an integral part of Sunnah and Seerah (Practice and Behaviour).
Celibacy is unnatural and not part of human nature. And thus at the age of 25, in the prime of manhood, even though he was not yet commanded by God to formally proclaim his mission, he had to marry, in order to fulfill the basic human needs of leading a stable life and building a family.
As the best of creation, and as the most perfect offspring of Adam and Eve, whose light had descended, generation after generation, through spotlessly clean wombs and pristinely pure backs, he had to marry the most virtuously chaste lady of his times, in order to start the pristinely pure progeny of all times – whose unsullied cleanliness God would eventually vouch in the holy Qur’an:
“Allah desires to keep away uncleanness from you Ahl al-Bayt and preserve you thoroughly purified.” (33:33)
Our sincere salutations to Khadijat-al-Kubra (SA), the monotheist daughter of Khwualed of the Bani Asad clan of the Quraysh that like the Bani Hashem had safeguarded the Hafanite traditions of Prophet Abraham the Iconoclast in those dark days of ignorance of the pagan Arabs.
It was on this day (Rabi al-Awwal 10) that the “Maleekat al-Arab” (Richest Lady of Arabia), who had remained a spinster till the age of 40, by spurning all suitors as unworthy, entered into the blessed union of marriage with the future Prophet.
Acclaimed as the Tahera (the Chaste) for remaining virtuously single so far, the Nikah (nuptials) of the One and Only Mother of all True Believers (Omm al-Momineen) was solemnized by none other than that primordial Muslim, the Prophet’s beloved uncle and guardian, Abu Taleb, who along with his wife Fatema bint Asad, had brought up his orphaned nephew as his own son.
It would be repetitive to say the Prophet never took another spouse during the over 25 years of marital bliss with the First Lady of Islam, or to emphasize the fact that Khadija (SA), who immediately testified to the mission of her husband when the first rays of divine revelation descended upon him at Cave Hera on Mount Noor, spent all her proverbial wealth to feed, clothe, and shelter the persecuted neo Muslim community, to the extent that when she passed away, there was hardly anything left for her only surviving child, daughter Fatemat az-Zahra (SA) – the noblest lady of all times.
Her unrivalled status is crystal clear for all Muslims, who very well know that whenever Islam was in danger, it was the progeny of Khadija (SA) that rose to the occasion by giving it the kiss of life through their lifeblood – with Karbala and the martyrdom of Imam Husain (AS) being the pinnacle of glory.
It is also needless to say that the Redeemer of mankind, the Awaited Imam Mahdi (AS), who will fill the world with justice is the offspring of the Immaculate Khadija (SA).
What I intend to state here is that, unlike the several wives the middle-aged Prophet had to take out of social necessity in the last ten years of his life in Medina, and who, whatever their degree of faith (or lack of it), were never considered by the Seal of Prophets to be on a par with the beloved Khadija (SA), whose memory he used to cherish till the end of his life.
I have no intention to mention the name of the wife who was scolded by the Prophet for objecting to his remembrance of the One and Only Mother of all True Believers, with the words:
"By God, the Almighty did not grant me a better wife than her. She believed in me when the people used to mock at me and she acknowledged me when the people denied me. She shared her wealth and property with me and she bore me children which I was not destined to have through other women." (Sahih Bukhari)
To be brief, the wedding of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) and Hazrat Khadija (SA) was celebrated on a grand scale, and the Walima meals arranged by the beaming uncle, Abu Taleb, who had arranged the marriage, lasted for three successive days.
No wonder, when five years later, Abu Taleb’s youngest child, son Ali (AS) was born, the Prophet and his wife, who had lost their sons in infancy, took him under their care to nurture, raise and eventually marry him to the Infallible Fatema (AS), so as to ensure eternity for the blessed progeny of the Mercy unto the creation.
Could there be a better Sunnah of the Prophet than his marriage to Khadija (SA), and planting of the evergreen tree of divine guidance?

Source: kayhanintl