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The principal
wife of Hadrat
Ali was Hadrat
Fatima, the favourite
daughter of the
holy Prophet. During the lifetime of Hadrat
Fatima, Hadrat
Ali at one
stage proposed to marry a
daughter of Abu Jahl. When the
holy Prophet came to know of this proposal, he became annoyed and declared that if Hadrat
Ali wanted to marry another
wife, he should divorce Hadrat
Fatima first. Thereupon Hadrat
Ali abandoned the idea of marrying another
wife. Hadrat
Fatima was the
mother of three sons and two daughters. The sons were Hasan, Hussain, and
Mohsin.
Mohsin died during childhood. The daughters were
Zainab and Umm Kulthum.
After the death of Hadrat
Fatima, Hadrat
Ali married a number of
wives. They were:
(1) Umm-ul-Bunian who was the
daughter of Hazam b.
Khalid. Hadrat
Ali had five sons from her, namely:
Abdullah,
Jafar,
Abbas, Othman, and
Umar. All of them except
Abbas were
martyred in the battle of
Karbala along with Hadrat Hussain.
(2)
Khaula was the
daughter of
Jafar Hanfiyah. She was the
mother of the son known as
Muhammad b. Hanfiyah.
(3) Umm
Habib who was the
daughter of
Rabiah. She gave birth to a son
Umar, in the
daughter Ruqiya.
(4)
Asma who was the
daughter of Umais. She was in the first instance married to Hadrat
Jafar, an elder brother of Hadrat
Ali. On the death of Hadrat
Jafar, Hadrat Abu Bakr married her. After the death of Hadrat Abu Bakr she married Hadrat
Ali. She had to sons from Hadrat
Ali, namely:
Yahya and
Muhammad Asghar.
(5)
Laila who was the
daughter of
Masud. She was the
mother of two sons, namely Ubaidullah and Abu Bakr.
(6)
Umama who was a
daughter of Abi Al Aa's and Hadrat
Zainab and elder
sister of Hadrat
Fatima. Her son from Hadrat
Ali bore the name of
Muhammad Awsat.
(7) Umm
Saeed who was a
daughter of
Urwa. She
bore Hadrat
Ali two daughters, namely: Umm-ul-Hasan and Rumia.
(8) Muhyat was a
daughter of the
famous Arab poet Imra-ul-
Qais. She gave birth to a
daughter who expired in infancy.
Hadrat
Ali married nine
wives in all including Hadrat
Fatima. The number of
wives at a time however did not exceed four. He had a few slave girls of whom Humia and Umm
Shuaib bore him 12 daughters, Nafisa,
Zainab, Ruqiya, Umm-ul-Karaam, Humaira, Umm
Salma,
Sughra,
Khadija, Umm
Hani, Umm Kulthum Jamana and Maimuna. Hadrat
Ali was, in all, the
father of 15 sons and 18 daughters. [total = 33 children]
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