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Fatimah bint Aqil ibn Abi Talib (Arabic: فاطمة بنت عقيل بن أبي طالب) She was a daughter of Aqil ibn Abi Talib, The Elder brother Ali ibn Abi Talib [1]
Biography
[edit]Fatimah bint Aqil was a daughter of Aqil ibn Abi Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib. According to Musʿab al-Zubayri's Nasab Quraysh, she was one of Aqil's daughters, whose mothers were different ummahāt awlād (slave women).[2] Her sisters included Umm Hani (Ramlah), Zaynab, Zaynab al-Sughra, and Umm Luqman.[3]
Fatimah married ʿAli ibn Yazid ibn Rukānah, from the Banu Abd al-Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf.[4] and bore him children.
The family of Aqil and Karbala
[edit]After news of the deaths of her relatives at the Battle of Karbala reached Medina, bint Aqil is associated in a later source with mourning their deaths.[5] Her brother Muslim ibn Aqil was sent to Kufa by Husayn ibn Ali in 680 CE. Muslim initially received support from the people of Kufa, but after the arrival of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, his supporters abandoned him. He was eventually captured and killed in Kufa. Other members of her family, including Abd al-Rahman ibn Aqil and Abd Allah ibn Aqil, were also killed at Karbala.[6]
Elegies
[edit]Ibn Abd Rabbih's al-ʿIqd al-Farīd attributes an elegy to an unnamed daughter of Aqil ibn Abi Talib, mourning Husayn ibn Ali and those killed with him.[7] A later report in al-Qunduzī's Yanabi' al-Mawadda identifies the daughter of Aqil who composed the elegy as Fatimah bint Aqil.[8]
The elegy begins:
“O my eyes, shed tears and lament,
and mourn for the family of the Messenger.
Six of them, all descended from Ali,
were struck down,
and five from the family of Aqil”.[9]Reference
[edit]
- ↑ al-Zubayri, Mus'ab. Nasab Quraysh.
- ↑ Ibn Sa'd, Muhammad ibn Sa'd. al-Tabaqat al-Kubra. Vol. 4. p. 42.
- ↑ al-Zubayri, Musʿab ibn ʿAbd Allah. "Descendants of ʿAqil ibn Abi Talib". Nasab Quraysh.
- ↑ al-Baladhuri, Ahmad ibn Yahya. Ansab al-Ashraf. Vol. 2. p. 70.
- ↑ Daʿwat al-Ḥusaynīyyah, p. 122.
- ↑ al-Ṭabarī (1990). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Vol. XIX: The Caliphate of Yazid b. Muʿawiyah. Translated by Howard, I. K. A. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 22–65.
- ↑ Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih, al-ʿIqd al-Farīd, vol. 5, p. 132.
- ↑ al-Qunduzī, Yanabi' al-Mawadda, vol. 3, p. 153.
- ↑ ʿAlī Ṣāliḥ Rasan al-Muḥammadāwī, ʿAqīl ibn Abī Ṭālib bayna al-ḥaqīqa wa-l-shubha, p. 145, citing al-Qundūzī, Yanābīʿ al-Mawadda, vol. 3, p. 153.