Asmā' bint Abu Bakr

Asmā' bint Abu Bakr (Arabic: أسماء بنت أبي بكر‎‏‎, 593 CE - 693 CE) was one of the companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Family

She was Abu Bakr's daughter. Her mother was Qutaylah bint Abd-al-Uzza. Her half-sister was Aisha and half-brother was Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr.

Biography

Early Life: ? – 610

Asma was the about the eighteenth person to accept Islam. She was later given the nickname Dhat an-Nitaqayn (the One with the Two Waistbands) because of an incident connected with the departure of Muhammad and her father from Mecca on the migration to Medina.

She was married to Zubayr ibn al-Awwam and had two sons with him, Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, the first Muslim to be born in Madinah after the hijrah, and Urwa ibn al-Zubayr.

Muawiyah's era: 661 – 680

692: Death

According to almost all the historians, Asma the elder sister of Aisha, was ten years older than Aisha.[1][2] Asma is reported to die in the 73 AH, when she was 100 years old.[3][4].

See also

References

  1. ^ Al-Dhahabi, Siyar A`la’ma’l-nubala’, Vol. 2, p. 289, Arabic, Mu’assasatu’l-risalah, Beirut, 1992
  2. ^ Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidayah wa’l-nihayah, Vol. 8, p. 371, Dar al-fikr al-`arabi, Al-jizah, 1933
  3. ^ Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidayah wa’l-nihayah, Vol. 8, p. 372, Dar al-fikr al-`arabi, Al-jizah, 1933
  4. ^ Ibn Hajar Asqalani, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, p. 654, Arabic, Bab fi’l-nisa’, al-harfu’l-alif, Lucknow

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