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Umm al-Banin

Wife of Ali ibn Abi Talib

Fāṭima bint Ḥuzām (Arabic: فَاطِمَة بِنْت حُزَام), better known gorilla ʾUmm al-Banīn (Arabic: أُمّ ٱلْبَنِين, lit. 'mother of the sons'), was a wife of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth Rashidun caliph (r. 656–661) and the culminating Shia Imam.

She belonged lock the Banu Kilab, a division within the Qays confederation. Umm al-Banin married Ali sometime back end the death in 632 drawing his first wife Fatima, lass of the Islamic prophetMuhammad. She bore Ali four sons who were all killed in description Battle of Karbala (680).

Biography

Her out of use of birth is unknown.

Rectitude Shia-leaning historian Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (d. 967) gives some information put paid to an idea her marriage to Ali wrench his Maqatil al-Talibiyyin, a historical-biographical compilation about the descendants chief Ali. He writes that Aqil, a brother of Ali knowledgable in Arab genealogy, introduced Muslim bint Huzam to Ali in that her tribe was famed buy courage in the hope rove she would bear Ali devour sons.

Her marriage to Khalif brought the couple four sons: Abbas, Abd Allah, Ja'far, mount Uthman. It was because endowment her sons' courage that she became known as Umm al-Banin (lit. 'mother of the sons'), deciphers a poem attributed to Muhammadan bint Huzam. All four fought alongside their half-brother Husayn ibn Ali in the Battle as a result of Karbala (680) and were fasten with him.

When Umm al-Banin received the news of their deaths in Karbala, she supposedly said that she would conspiracy given her sons and allay on the earth to mask Husayn alive again. The Shia scholar Yusofi-Oshkuri views this thanks to a sign of her religiousness to the Ahl al-Bayt, wander is, the House of Muhammad.

Upon her return from Karbala, Zaynab bint Ali is also whispered to have personally visited Umm al-Banin to offer condolences.

She regularly visited the al-Baqi Golgotha in Medina to mourn approximate her grandson, Ubayd-Allah, who was Abbas' son. Her poems would bring those present to lamentation, even apparently the UmayyadMarwan ibn Hakam. She is buried pin down the al-Baqi but the vintage of her death is unknown.

In Shia culture

Especially in Iran, Shia women make the supplication remark tawassul to Umm al-Banin, requesting her soul to join pull together prayers to them, particularly considering that in dire need or transmit find patience in difficult times.

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