Person
Fāṭima bint Asad
فاطمة بنت أسد
d. 626 CE Banū Hāshim
Wife of Abū Ṭālib and mother of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib, and ʿAqīl ibn Abī Ṭālib. From Banū Hāshim (her father Asad was a son of Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf — making her the Prophet's ﷺ first cousin once removed, and ʿAlī both his cousin paternally AND maternally through this line). Treated the orphaned Muhammad ﷺ as her own son when he came under Abū Ṭālib's care. Among the early Muslims; migrated to Medina. The Prophet ﷺ wept at her funeral and gave his own shirt to be her shroud, and lay in her grave saying: "O God, forgive my mother Fāṭima bint Asad..."
Significance
Wife of Abū Ṭālib and mother of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib, and ʿAqīl ibn Abī Ṭālib. From Banū Hāshim (her father Asad was a son of Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf — making her the Prophet's ﷺ first cousin once removed, and ʿAlī both his cousin paternally AND maternally through this line). Treated the orphaned Muhammad ﷺ as her own son when he came under Abū Ṭālib's care. Among the early Muslims; migrated to Medina. The Prophet ﷺ wept at her funeral and gave his own shirt to be her shroud, and lay in her grave saying: "O God, forgive my mother Fāṭima bint Asad..."
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