Umm Ishaq bint Talha ibn Ubayd Allah

Umm Isḥāq bint Ṭalḥa ibn ʿUbayd Allāh (Arabic: أم إسحاق بنت طَلحَة بن عُبَيد الله) was the daughter of Talha and one of the wives of Hasan ibn Ali. After his death, she married Hasan's brother, Husayn ibn Ali.

Umm Isḥāq
أم إسحاق
Personal
ReligionIslam
Spouse
  • Hasan ibn Ali
    (until his death in 670)
  • Husayn ibn Ali
    (from 670 until his death)
  • Tammam ibn Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib
  • Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr
Children
Parents

Biography

Umm Ishaq was the daughter of Talha ibn Ubayd Allah. She was reported to be among the most beautiful women of Quraysh.[1]

Umm Ishaq was one of the wives of Hasan ibn Ali. After Hasan was killed, she married Husayn ibn Ali.[1] After Husayn was killed, she married Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr. It is said that before this marriage to Abd Allah, she had married Tammam ibn al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib.[2]

Children

Umm Ishaq had three children from Hasan ibn Ali: Husayn (who was known as al-Athram), Talha ibn Hasan, and Fatima bint Hasan.[3]

She also had one daughter from Husayn: Fatima al-Kubra.[4] She also bore a daughter, Amina to Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr.[5]

References

  1. Iṣfahānī. Al_Aghani. Vol. 21. p. 78.
  2. A. J. Al-Baghdadi. Al-Muhbir. Beirut: Dar al-Afaq al-Jadidah.
  3. Mufīd. al-Irshād. Vol. 2. p. 20.
  4. Mufid. Al_Irshad. Vol. 2. p. 135.
  5. Zubayrī, Nasab, 50; Ibn Sa'd, Ṭabaqāt, III/1, 152.
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