Khadija and Abu Talib die in the received Year of Sorrow, stripping Muhammad's Meccan cover
Around 619 CE later sira groups the deaths of Khadija and Abu Talib as a Year of Sorrow. The double loss is a received turning of Meccan cover, not a statute. In the causal graph this event weakens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.
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Around 619 CE later sira groups the deaths of Khadija and Abu Talib as a Year of Sorrow. The year is conventional. The double loss is a received turning of Meccan cover, not a statute. Muhammad's documented role is: He lost wife and uncle in the same received year. Their deaths are not his policy; they remove his Meccan cover.
Context
Khadija had been first hearer and patron. Abu Talib had been clan shield. Sharing those roles with them is required. A later mosque door is still not a likeness. The setting of Khadija and Abu Talib die in the received Year of Sorrow, stripping Muhammad's Meccan cover is the public file around 0619-01-01. Driver social-cohesion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Why it matters
Worsening path from Khadija and Abu Talib die in the received Year of Sorrow, stripping Muhammad's Meccan cover on 0619-01-01. Loss of clan protection is a cohesion shock that later lives tie to the Ta'if and Hijra sequence. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.
Shared responsibility is part of Khadija and Abu Talib die in the received Year of Sorrow, stripping Muhammad's Meccan cover. Naming Muhammad does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0619-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Muhammad
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · verified
He lost wife and uncle in the same received year. Their deaths are not his policy; they remove his Meccan cover.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactKhadija and Abu Talib die in the received Year of Sorrow, stripping Muhammad's Meccan cover
- weakensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 619 · verified
Loss of clan protection is a cohesion shock that later lives tie to the Ta'if and Hijra sequence.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Mecca, late Meccan yearsEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Muhammad, public Meccan preachingEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: Britannica — Muhammad, deaths of Khadija and Abu Talib at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Britannica — Mecca, late Meccan years at https://www.britannica.com/place/Mecca (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Britannica — Muhammad, deaths of Khadija and Abu Talib (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Mecca, late Meccan years (https://www.britannica.com/place/Mecca (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Established: a sourced public record of Khadija and Abu Talib die in the received Year of Sorrow, stripping Muhammad's Meccan cover under 0619-01-01 for Muhammad. Established: a sourced public record of Khadija and Abu Talib die in the received Year of Sorrow, stripping Muhammad's Meccan cover under 0619-01-01.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Khadija and Abu Talib die in the received Year of Sorrow, stripping Muhammad's Meccan cover are separate paths.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorMuhammad
- contributed toFactKhadija and Abu Talib die in the received Year of Sorrow, stripping Muhammad's Meccan cover
- weakensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Khadija and Abu Talib die in the received Year of Sorrow, stripping Muhammad's Meccan cover. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/muh-year-of-sorrow-619
https://factrail.ai/facts/muh-year-of-sorrow-619
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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