Umm Kulthum bint Asim

Umm Kulthum Jamila bint Asim ibn Thabit ( _ar. أم كلثوم جميلة بنت قاسم بن ثابت) was one of the wives of Umar, the second Sunni Caliph.

Sources available to this article have not established if Asim ibn Thabit was her father, or if he just shared her fathers name and patronymic.

Biography

quoteHadith|Malik| from Yahya ibn Said|from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad|matn =A woman of the Ansar was married to Umar ibn al-Khattab. She bore Asim ibn Umar to him, and then he separated from her. Umar came to Quba and found his son Asim playing in the courtyard of the mosque. He took him by the arm and placed him before him on his mount. The grandmother of the child saw him and argued with Umar about the child so they went to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. Umar said, 'My son.' The woman said, 'My son.' Abu Bakr said, 'Do not interfere between a child and its mother.' Umar did not repeat his words."

Yahya said that he heard Malik say, "This is what I would have done in that situation. [muwatta|37|6|6|]

writes:

Asim ibn Umar would become the grandfather of Umar II, the Fifth Sunni Caliph.

ee also

*Umm Kulthum (name)

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