Qutaylah bint ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ( ar, قتيلة بنت عبدالعزة),9 was the first wife of

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. She was a member of the Amir ibn Luayy clan of the

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.Muhammad ibn Saad, ''Tabaqat'' vol. 8. Translated by Bewley, A. (1995). ''The Women of Madina''. London: Ta-Ha Publishers. Her marriage to Abu Bakr produced two children, Asmā'9> and Abd Allah.9> Soon before or soon after Abd Allah's birth, Abu Bakr divorced Qutaylah. It was after this that Abu Bakr converted to

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; Qutaylah remained a polytheist. Seven years after their daughter Asmā' had migrated from Mecca, Qutaylah came to visit her in

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. She brought gifts of raisins,

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and ''qaraz'' (pods of a species of the

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). However, Asmā' did not admit her mother into her house or accept the gifts until she had sent someone to

Aisha Aisha ( ar, , translit=ʿĀʾisha bint Abī Bakr; , also , ; ) was Muhammad's third and youngest wife. In Islamic writings, her name is thus often prefixed by the title "Mother of the Believers" ( ar, links=no, , ʾumm al-mu'min, muʾminīn), ...

to ask Muhammad about what her attitude to her unbelieving mother should be. He replied that she should certainly admit her to her house and accept the gifts. This was the occasion for the first reciting of the following verse of the Qur'an:

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