Fatimah bint Asad


Fatimah bint Asad was the mother of Ali bin Abi Talib, wife of Abu Talib, and an aunt to the Prophet Muhammad.

Ancestry

She was the daughter of Asad ibn Hashim and Fatimah bint Qays, hence a member of the Hashim clan of the Quraysh.
The maternal grandfather of Muhammad's wife Khadija bint Khuwaylid, Za'ida ibn al-Asamm ibn Rawaha, was the cousin of Fatimah's mother.

Biography

Fatimah became a Muslim and is described as a "righteous woman". Following Abu Talib's death in 620, Fatimah emigrated to Medina with Fatima bint Muhammad and her son Ali in 622. Muhammad would regularly visit her home and would have his afternoon rest there.
Fatimah bint Asad died in the year 625/626. It is narrated by Anas bin Malik, that when Muhammad learned that Fatimah had died, he went to her house to sit beside her body and prayed her funeral prayers, he the. gave his shirt to be incorporated into her shroud, and personally helped placing her in her grave in the Jannatul Baqee cemetery in Medina.

Children

She married her paternal cousin, Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib. Their marriage was notable for being the first between two members of the Banu Hashim. They had seven children:
  1. Talib.
  2. Fakhitah.
  3. Aqeel.
  4. Jumanah.
  5. Ja'far.
  6. Rayta.
  7. Ali, who was the husband of Muhammad's daughter Fatimah.
The orphaned Muhammad, who was Abu Talib's nephew and Fatimah's cousin, came to live in their house in 579.