And her sister is the Mother of the Believers, ʿĀʾishah—the pure, the vindicated…
And her husband is the Disciple (1) of Allah’s Messenger ﷺ, al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām…
And her son is ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Zubayr—may Allah be pleased with him and with them all…
In a word, she is Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq—and that alone is sufficient…

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Asmāʾ was among the earliest to embrace Islam; only seventeen persons, male or female, preceded her in that exalted virtue.
She was nicknamed “the Lady of the Two Sashes” because, when the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—and her father set out on the migration to Madinah, she prepared provisions for them and readied a waterskin (2); when she could not find anything with which to fasten them, she tore—