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Asma bint Abi Bakr
Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr (Arabic: أسماء بنت أبي بكر; c. 594/595 – 692/693 CE) was a follower and Sahabiyya of prophet Muhammad and the elder half-sister of his wife Aisha. Her nickname Dhat an-Nitaqayn (meaning she with the two belts) was given to her by Muhammad during the migration to Medina. She is regarded as one of the most prominent Islamic figures, as she helped Muhammad during the Hijrah from Mecca to Medina.
She was Abu Bakr's daughter. Her mother was Qutaylah bint Abd al-Uzza, and she was the full sister of Abd Allah ibn Abi Bakr. Her half-sisters were Aisha and Umm Kulthum bint Abi Bakr, and her half-brothers were Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr and Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr. She also had a stepmother from the Kinana tribe, Umm Ruman bint Amir, and a stepbrother, al-Tufayl ibn al-Harith al-Azdi. The historians Ibn Kathir and Ibn Asakir cite a tradition that Asma was ten years older than Aisha; but according to Al-Dhahabi, the age difference was thirteen to nineteen years.
Asma's parents were divorced before Muhammad started preaching the message of Islam. Because of this she remained at her father's house.
Asma was one of the first to accept Islam, being listed fifteenth on Ibn Ishaq's list of those who accepted Islam at the invitation of Abu Bakr.
She was married to Zubayr ibn al-Awwam shortly before the Hijra.[unreliable source?] She joined him in Medina a few months later.
When Muhammad and Abu Bakr sought refuge in Jabal Thawr outside Mecca on their migration to Medina in 622, Asma used to carry food to them under cover of dark. When the two men left the cave, Asma tied the goods with the two belts of her cover, and for this ingenuity she received from Muhammad the title Dhat an-Nitaqayn, meaning "She of the Two Belts".
After it was discovered that Muhammad and Abu Bakr had escaped, Abu Jahl, one of the biggest enemies of Islam, marched to Asma's house, demanding her to reveal the location of her father and the Prophet. Asma, then heavily pregnant, refused to respond. Out of rage, Abu Jahl violently slapped her so hard that the earring she was wearing fell off. Despite this, she did not stagger and Abu Jahl left in anger.
Asma found her new neighbours to be "sincere women". She was a poor baker, and they used to make bread for her. She and Al-Zubayr arrived in Medina with "neither property nor slave nor any possession in the earth other than his horse." Asma used to feed the horse, taking it out to graze and grinding date-stones for it. Muhammad gave Al-Zubayr (a land with) some date-palms in Medina, and Asma used to carry date-stones on her head from the garden to their home, a journey of about two miles. One day, while carrying the date-stones on her head she passed Muhammad (along with some of his companions), who offered her a lift home on his camel (by directing his camel to kneel down and indicating to her to ride behind him, but out of shyness to travel with the men, and fearing her husband's jealousy, she hesitated. Noticing that she felt shy, he moved on. When she narrated about running into the Prophet to her husband, he told her, however, that it shamed him more that she had been carrying such a heavy load (and she was seen by the Prophet in such a state) than her riding with him. When her father, Abu Bakr, eventually sent her a servant to look after the horse, Asma said that "it was as if he had set me free".
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Asma bint Abi Bakr
Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr (Arabic: أسماء بنت أبي بكر; c. 594/595 – 692/693 CE) was a follower and Sahabiyya of prophet Muhammad and the elder half-sister of his wife Aisha. Her nickname Dhat an-Nitaqayn (meaning she with the two belts) was given to her by Muhammad during the migration to Medina. She is regarded as one of the most prominent Islamic figures, as she helped Muhammad during the Hijrah from Mecca to Medina.
She was Abu Bakr's daughter. Her mother was Qutaylah bint Abd al-Uzza, and she was the full sister of Abd Allah ibn Abi Bakr. Her half-sisters were Aisha and Umm Kulthum bint Abi Bakr, and her half-brothers were Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr and Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr. She also had a stepmother from the Kinana tribe, Umm Ruman bint Amir, and a stepbrother, al-Tufayl ibn al-Harith al-Azdi. The historians Ibn Kathir and Ibn Asakir cite a tradition that Asma was ten years older than Aisha; but according to Al-Dhahabi, the age difference was thirteen to nineteen years.
Asma's parents were divorced before Muhammad started preaching the message of Islam. Because of this she remained at her father's house.
Asma was one of the first to accept Islam, being listed fifteenth on Ibn Ishaq's list of those who accepted Islam at the invitation of Abu Bakr.
She was married to Zubayr ibn al-Awwam shortly before the Hijra.[unreliable source?] She joined him in Medina a few months later.
When Muhammad and Abu Bakr sought refuge in Jabal Thawr outside Mecca on their migration to Medina in 622, Asma used to carry food to them under cover of dark. When the two men left the cave, Asma tied the goods with the two belts of her cover, and for this ingenuity she received from Muhammad the title Dhat an-Nitaqayn, meaning "She of the Two Belts".
After it was discovered that Muhammad and Abu Bakr had escaped, Abu Jahl, one of the biggest enemies of Islam, marched to Asma's house, demanding her to reveal the location of her father and the Prophet. Asma, then heavily pregnant, refused to respond. Out of rage, Abu Jahl violently slapped her so hard that the earring she was wearing fell off. Despite this, she did not stagger and Abu Jahl left in anger.
Asma found her new neighbours to be "sincere women". She was a poor baker, and they used to make bread for her. She and Al-Zubayr arrived in Medina with "neither property nor slave nor any possession in the earth other than his horse." Asma used to feed the horse, taking it out to graze and grinding date-stones for it. Muhammad gave Al-Zubayr (a land with) some date-palms in Medina, and Asma used to carry date-stones on her head from the garden to their home, a journey of about two miles. One day, while carrying the date-stones on her head she passed Muhammad (along with some of his companions), who offered her a lift home on his camel (by directing his camel to kneel down and indicating to her to ride behind him, but out of shyness to travel with the men, and fearing her husband's jealousy, she hesitated. Noticing that she felt shy, he moved on. When she narrated about running into the Prophet to her husband, he told her, however, that it shamed him more that she had been carrying such a heavy load (and she was seen by the Prophet in such a state) than her riding with him. When her father, Abu Bakr, eventually sent her a servant to look after the horse, Asma said that "it was as if he had set me free".