Fatima bint Asad

Fatima bint Asad ibn Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, mother of Ali ibn Abi Talib and his brothers ¹.

Some say she died before the hijra; the sound view at Ibn Hajar is that she emigrated and died in Medina — al-Sha'bi asserted it: she became Muslim, emigrated, and died in Medina ¹.

Ibn Abi Asim relates from Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Umar ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib from his father that the Prophet shrouded Fatima bint Asad in his own shirt, saying: "we met none more kind to me after Abu Talib than her" ¹.

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar says she was the first Hashimi woman to bear a successor, then after her Fatima al-Zahra' ¹. Ibn Sa'd says she was a righteous woman; the Prophet would visit her and take his midday rest in her house ¹. The books of reports relate that Ali told his mother: let Fatima be spared the water-carrying and going out on errands, and I will spare you the grinding and kneading ¹.