Asma bint Abi Bakr
أسماء بنت أبي بكر
c. 595 CE – c. 692 CE · 73 AH
Abu Bakr's elder daughter, who carried provisions to the two fugitives in the cave of Thawr and split her girdle in two to tie the food bag — hence her byname Dhat al-Nitaqayn, 'she of the two girdles'.
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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In time
Refugees, migrants and diaspora
Place in the story
- CompanionTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
In the hijra
When Quraysh asked her about her father she said: by God I do not know where my father is — and Abu Jahl struck her a blow that knocked her earring off 2 3.
She brought the Prophet and her father their provisions when they set out from the cave; having forgotten to make the bundle a tie-strap, she split her waist-girdle in two — bound the bundle with one and girded herself with the other — and was named She of the Two Girdles 4 1.
Afterwards
She lived until her son Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr was killed in 73 AH, and died after him, past a hundred on the well-known account 5.
Connections
- Child of
- Abu Bakr al-SiddiqQutayla bint Abd al-Uzza
- Member of
- The early Muslim community
- Participated in
- The Hijra
People and things also explored
Abdullah ibn Abi BakrThe Battle of BadrThe HijraAbu Ubayda ibn al-JarrahMeccaMedinaThe three nights in the cave of ThawrThe sojourn at Quba
Sources
- Sahih al-Bukhari
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, p. 165
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, p. 166
- al-Tabaqat al-Kubra — Ibn Sa'd
- Nisa' Hawl al-Rasul: Tarajim wa Qisas — al-Maktaba al-Asriyya
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