- ʿĀʾishah, daughter of al-Ṣiddīq Abū Bakr of the Taym clan, Mother of the Believers (may Allah be pleased with her).
She was the daughter of the great Imām al-Ṣiddīq, the first and foremost of the truthful, the Caliph of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ—Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Quḥāfah ʿUthmān ibn ʿĀmir ibn ʿAmr ibn Kaʿb ibn Saʿd ibn Taym ibn Murrah ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy. A Qurashī, Taymī, Makkan woman of the Prophetic household, she was a Mother of the Believers and the Prophet’s ﷺ wife, the most learned woman of the ummah without exception.
Her mother was Umm Rūmān bint ʿĀmir ibn ʿUwaymir ibn ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAttāb ibn Udhaynah al-Kināniyyah.
Her parents emigrated with her. The Prophet of Allah ﷺ contracted marriage with her before his own emigration, after the death of the truthful lady Khadījah bint Khuwaylid, roughly fifteen months before the Hijrah—though some say two years earlier.
He consummated the marriage with her in Shawwāl of year 2 AH, on his return from the Battle of Badr, when she was nine years old.
She related from him a copious amount of wholesome, blessed knowledge.
She also narrated from her father, and from ʿUmar, Fāṭimah, Saʿd, Hamzah ibn ʿAmr al-Aslamī, and Judāmah ⦗1⦘ bint Wahb.