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# Khadijah Orbit Edition — Reference Dossier (Game Mapping) This maps `[G##]` tags in the orbit narrative to source families and confidence notes. ## Confidence legend - **High:** strong convergence in major hadith/sira memory. - **Medium:** broad agreement with contested details. - **Low-Medium:** known contradiction; present as rumor/opinion layer. --- ## [G01] Merchant-city Makkah and trust-based contract culture - Source family: early sira + Meccan trade context studies. - Confidence: Medium-High. ## [G02] Reports of Khadijah-linked commercial management through agents - Source family: Ibn Ishaq/Ibn Hisham tradition; later biographies. - Confidence: Medium. ## [G03] High social standing of Khadijah’s household in Quraysh memory - Source family: sira + encyclopedic syntheses. - Confidence: Medium-High. ## [G04] Marriage to Muhammad (pbuh) after recognized trustworthiness arc - Source family: mainstream sira narrative. - Confidence: High for broad arc. ## [G05] Age-at-marriage contradiction (40 vs younger variants) - Source family: later historical transmission + modern re-analysis. - Confidence: Contradiction is high-confidence; numeric resolution is low-medium. - Game handling: rumor cards only; no final adjudication. ## [G06] Pre-revelation years of household continuity - Source family: sira chronology. - Confidence: Medium. ## [G07] Children list broadly accepted; ordering/name nuances debated - Source family: hadith/sira/tabaqat compilations. - Confidence: Medium-High for broad list, medium for sequence/details. ## [G08] First revelation event at Hira as turning point - Source family: major hadith and sira framing. - Confidence: High. ## [G09] Khadijah’s immediate support/affirmation after first revelation - Source family: Sahih al-Bukhari opening revelation reports and related narrations. - Confidence: High. ## [G10] Consultation with Waraqa ibn Nawfal - Source family: early revelation narrative corpus. - Confidence: High for core event. ## [G11] Makkan social pressure and factional responses to early preaching - Source family: sira/tarikh broad chronology. - Confidence: High at macro level. ## [G12] Khadijah as earliest believer/supporter - Source family: broad Islamic consensus in hadith/sira memory. - Confidence: High. ## [G13] Boycott hardship period and deprivation dynamics - Source family: sira chronology (Shi‘b context). - Confidence: Medium-High for event class; lower for anecdotes. ## [G14] Her resources materially supporting endurance in difficult years - Source family: sira/tarikh emphasis; later consensus memory. - Confidence: Medium (direction strong, quantification weak). ## [G15] Year of Sorrow frame and Khadijah’s death before hijrah - Source family: mainstream sira chronology. - Confidence: High at year/frame level. ## [G16] Close temporal proximity of Khadijah’s death and Abu Talib’s death - Source family: sira/tarikh reports. - Confidence: Medium-High for proximity, lower for exact interval. ## [G17] Exact date conversion uncertainty (Ramadan day/month/year mapping variance) - Source family: later chronographic/devo calendars + historical conversion limits. - Confidence: High that uncertainty exists. ## [G18] Continued remembrance of Khadijah in later prophetic household reports - Source family: hadith narrations of posthumous remembrance and loyalty. - Confidence: High. --- ## Implementation rulebook for writers/designers 1. If claim confidence is **High**: can be chronicler baseline line. 2. If **Medium**: baseline line + optional codex nuance. 3. If **Low-Medium/contradicted**: rumor/opinion card only. 4. Never frame disputed claims as absolute fact. 5. Never force sect adjudication. --- ## Compliance checklist (must pass before shipping chapter) - No depiction of Sahaba/major sacred figures. - No theological enforcement mechanics. - Fixed anchors not alterable by player. - Neutral chronicler tone preserved. - Contradictions handled calmly and non-sectarianly.