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Fatimah bint Asad

Fatima bint Asad (Arabic: فَاطِمَة بِنْت أَسَد Fāṭima bint ʾAsad c. 555–626 CE) was the wife of Abu Talib and the mother of their son Ali ibn Abi Talib.

Fatima bint Asad and her husband, Abu Talib, acted as the Prophet's adopted parents for fifteen years, after Muhammad had lost his mother when he was six (his father had died before he was born). Years later, Muhammad repaid the love he had received from Fatima bint Asad by adopting Ali, Fatima's youngest child, as his son.

Giving birth to Ali is recorded as a miraculous event in the life of Fatima bint Asad by both Shias and Sunnis. According to some traditions, the Kaaba's wall split open in order for Fatima to go in the house and give birth to her son, Ali.

After Muhammad's wife, Khadija bint Khuwaylid, Fatima bint Asad was the second woman who entered the fold of Islam. Ali ibn Abi Talib was given the name of Haydar, meaning lion, by his mother.

Fatima bint Asad was the wife of Abu Talib, who was Muhammad's uncle. She was the daughter of Asad ibn Hashim and Fatima 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 Fatima's mother.

Muhammad's father, Abdullah, died before he was born. Then at the age of six, he was orphaned by the death of his mother. After that, his grandfather, Abd al-Muttalib, took care of Muhammad for two years before he too died when Muhammad was eight. Then in the year 578 Muhammad was adopted by Fatima bint Asad and Abu Talib as their son.

It is said that Fatima loved Muhammad more than her own children. In his later years, Muhammad used to say of her that she would have let her own children go hungry rather than him.

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