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===Indications he was literate=== | ===Indications he was literate=== | ||
Muhammad was employed by his first wife Khadija to travel as a merchant. It's hard to do trade business without being able to write. Besides this implicit indication to his ability to write, we have explicit hadiths talking about Muhammad writing stuff. | Muhammad was employed by his first wife Khadija to travel as a merchant. It's hard to do trade business without being able to write. Besides this implicit indication to his ability to write, we have explicit hadiths talking about Muhammad writing stuff. | ||
كتب (''kataba'') means "he wrote": | كتب (''kataba'') means "he wrote": | ||
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وكتب (''wa-kataba'') means "and he wrote": | |||
{{Quote|{{Bukhari|4|53|387}}| | |||
Narrated Abu Humaid As-Saidi: | |||
We accompanied the Prophet (ﷺ) in the Ghazwa of Tabuk and the king of 'Aila presented a white mule and a cloak as a gift to the Prophet. '''And the Prophet (ﷺ) wrote (وَكَتَبَ) to him''' a peace treaty allowing him to keep authority over his country. | |||
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فكتب (''fa-kataba'') means "then he wrote": | فكتب (''fa-kataba'') means "then he wrote": | ||