At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
- Family of the ProphetTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Fatima bint Asad ibn Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, mother of Ali ibn Abi Talib and his brothers 1.
Her death
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 (may God be pleased with her) in his own shirt, saying: "we met none more kind to me after Abu Talib than her" 1.
Other reports
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.
Connections
People and things also explored
Umm Hani' bint Abi Talib· Ja'far ibn Abi Talib· The Writing of the Diwan and the Stipend· Mecca· Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib· Ali ibn Abi Talib· The capture and release of Hatim al-Ta'i's daughter· The custody of Hamza's daughter
Sources
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p. 1934
- Nisa' Hawl al-Rasul: Tarajim wa Qisas — al-Maktaba al-Asriyya
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Fatima bint Asad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/fatima-bint-asad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.