Farwah bint al-Qasim (Arabic: فروة بنت القاسم) was the mother of Ja'far al-Sadiq, the sixth Shi'a imam. Her father was Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr. Her grandfather was Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr. Her great-grandfather was Abu Bakr, the first caliph of the early Islamic state.