Asad ibn Hāshim () was the son of

Hashim ibn Abd Manaf Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf ( ar, هاشم بن عبد مناف; ), born ʿAmr al-ʿUlā (), was the great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the progenitor of the ruling Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca. At some point in ...

and the brother of

Abd al-Muttalib Shayba ibn Hāshim ( ar, شَيْبَة بْن هَاشِم; 497–578), better known as ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, ( ar, عَبْد ٱلْمُطَّلِب , lit=Servant of Muttalib) was the fourth chief of the Quraysh tribal confederation. He was ...

. He was the father of

Fatima bint Asad Fatima bint Asad ( ar, فَاطِمَة بِنْت أَسَد ', 555–626 CE), was the mother of Ali ibn Abi Talib, married to Abu Talib, and an aunt to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Fatima bint Asad and her husband, Abu Talib, acted as p ...

, the mother of Ali and the cousin and wife of Abu Talib. Asad was a very respectful person among the

Qureshi Qureshi (also known as Qureyshi, Quraishi, Qurayshi, Qureshy, Quraishy, Qoraishi, Qoreshi, Koraishi, Kureshi, Kureshy, Kureishi, Coreish) is a Muslim family name. In English it has many spellings, in Arabic is spelled "", which means part of the ...

Arab tribe The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, No ...

. He was a merchant and very often helped the poor. His name means Lion (a brave one). His descendants usually use the surname "Qureshi", "Hashmi" or "al-Hashmi al-Asadi", while some of his descendants avoid using any surname.

Birth

Historians are not clear about his exact date of birth, but according to the sources he was born in 485AD or 497AD in

Mecca Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow v ...

Religion

According to sources he was of a religion of

Abraham Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Je ...

, as most of the Arabs were of

's religion, including his tribe Quresh and his other uncles. Asad died before the birth of

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mon ...

Brothers and sisters

*Abu Saifi bin Hashim *

bin Hashim *Nazil bin Hashim *Nadla binte Hashim *Safia binte Hashim *Shifa binte Hashim *Ruqayya binte Hashim *Khalidah binte Hashim *Hannah binte Hashim *Zaifah binte Hashim *Janna binte Hashim *Ramlah binte Hashim *Hayyah binte Hashim *Da'ifah binte Hashim *Sayfah bin Hashim *Abbas bin Hashim *Abu Sayr bin Hashim

Descendants

*Fatimah bint Asad bin Hashim She was the mother of Caliph Ali and his brothers. Fatimah bint Asad was very dear to Muhammad. *Hunain bin Asad bin Hashim Hunain was a son of Asad, and he had two sons, Abdullah and Abd-ur Rahman. They both were

Sahabi The Companions of the Prophet ( ar, اَلصَّحَابَةُ; ''aṣ-ṣaḥāba'' meaning "the companions", from the verb meaning "accompany", "keep company with", "associate with") were the disciples and followers of Muhammad who saw or m ...

and Abdullah and Abdullah's son name are mentioned in many books of Ahadith. From the sons of Hunain, Abd-ur Rahman was the ancestor of the famous saint of the sub-continent Sheikh-ul-Islam Bahauddin Zakariya. *Adai bint Asad bin Hashim (mother of Haninai al- Nehar Peḳkod ben

Bustanai Bostanai (Hebrew: בוסתנאי), also transliterated as Bustenai or Bustnay, was the first Exilarch (leader of the Jewish community of Mesopotamia) under Arab rule. He lived in the early-to-middle of the 7th century, and died about 660 CE. The na ...

bar Adai,

Exilarch The exilarch was the leader of the Jewish community in Persian Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) during the era of the Parthians, Sasanians and Abbasid Caliphate up until the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, with intermittent gaps due to ongoing ...

and Gaon of

Sura, Syria Sura (Suriya), was an ancient city on the Euphrates River in northern Syria, today on a site 25 km west of Raqqa and 35 km north of Resafa. In the Roman Empire, Sura was a fortress city in the Roman province of Syria, and later on, in the Euphra ...

) *Khalda bint Asad bin Hashim (she married her cousin Al-Arqam bin Nazil bin Hashim and had a daughter named Um al-Saaib Al-Shafaa)Tareekh-e-Baghdad, v2, page412. *Habbar bin Assad bin Hashim (he married his cousin Sa'd bint Abi Sayfi bin Hashim and had a son named Abdul-Rahman bin Habbar)

Death

He died before the birth of Muhammad, and was buried in

Jannat al-Mu'alla Jannat al-Mu'alla ( ar, جَنَّة ٱلْمُعَلَّاة, Jannah al-Muʿallāh, lit=The Most Exalted Paradise), also known as the "Cemetery of Ma'la" ( ar, مَقْبَرَة ٱلْمَعْلَاة, link=no ') and ''Al-Ḥajūn'' ( ar, ٱل ...

previously known as Hajoon, in

with his other family members.

References

{{Reflist Sahabah ancestors Family of Muhammad Banu Hashim Najjarite people 5th-century Arabs Burials at Jannat al-Mu'alla