Laylā bint Abī Murrah ibn ʿUrwah ibn Masʿūd al-Thaqafī ( ar, لَيْلَىٰ بِنْت أَبِي مُرَّة ٱبْن عُرْوَة ٱبْن مَسْعُود ٱلثَّقَفِيّ), also known as Umm Laylā ( ar, أُمّ لَيْلَىٰ, link=no), was a wife of
Husayn ibn Ali
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...
and the mother of
Ali al-Akbar and
Fatima al-Sughra. She was the niece of
Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan
Mu'awiya I ( ar, معاوية بن أبي سفيان, Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān; –April 680) was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 661 until his death. He became caliph less than thirty years after the deat ...
. Her grandfather
Urwah ibn Mas'ud
Urwa or Urwah or "Orwah" is a given name of Arabic origin meaning strong support. It may refer to:
People
* Urwa ibn al-Ward (555–607), pre-Islamic poet
* Urwah ibn Mas'ud, semi-legendary chieftain of Taif
* Urwah ibn Zubayr (died 713), tabi ...
was considered by
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...
as one of the four chiefs of Islam.
[Shaykh Abbas Qummi. ''Nafasul Mahmoom.'' p.269.]
References
Battle of Karbala
7th-century Arabs
Wives of Shiite Imams
Wives of Husayn ibn Ali
History of Islam
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