He was speaking with a man while al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil was watching. Someone asked al-ʿĀṣ, “Who is that?” He replied, “That is the one whose line is cut off.” Among the Quraysh, whenever a man had a child and then no more children came to him, they would say, “He is abtar—his lineage is severed.” Thereupon Allah revealed, “Indeed, the one who hates you—it is he who is cut off” (al-Kawthar: 3), meaning that the one who despises you is the one cut off from every good.
He went on: “After that she bore him Zaynab, then Ruqayyah, then al-Qāsim, then al-Ṭāhir, then al-Muṭahhar, then al-Ṭayyib, then al-Muṭayyab, then Umm Kulthūm, and finally Fāṭimah, the youngest of them all. Whenever Khadījah gave birth she would hand the child to a wet-nurse, but when she bore Fāṭimah no one suckled her but Khadījah herself.
Al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī (1) said: Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated to us, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, from his father, that the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—had two sons, Ṭāhir and Ṭayyib. He used to call one of them ʿAbd Shams and the other ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā. This report is objectionable, and Allah knows best.
Muḥammad ibn ʿĀʾidh (2) said: al-Walīd ibn Muslim informed me, from Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, that Khadījah bore al-Qāsim, al-Ṭayyib, al-Ṭāhir, Muṭahhar, Zaynab, Ruqayyah, Fāṭimah, and Umm Kulthūm.
Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār (3) said: My uncle Muṣʿab ibn ʿAbd Allāh told me that Khadījah bore al-Qāsim and al-Ṭāhir—who was also called al-Ṭayyib; al-Ṭāhir was born after the advent of prophethood, died young, and his name was ʿAbd Allāh—together with Fāṭimah, Zaynab, Ruqayyah, and Umm Kulthūm.
Al-Zubayr added: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir related to me, from Ibn Wahb, from Ibn Luhayʿah, from Abū al-Aswad, that Khadījah bore al-Qāsim, al-Ṭāhir, al-Ṭayyib, ʿAbd Allāh, Zaynab, Ruqayyah, Fāṭimah, and Umm Kulthūm.
Muḥammad ibn Faḍālah (4) narrated to me, from one of the elders he had met, that Khadījah bore al-Qāsim and ʿAbd Allāh: al-Qāsim lived until he could walk, whereas ʿAbd Allāh died in infancy.
Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār (5) also said: In the pre-Islamic days Khadījah was known as “al-Ṭāhirah bint Khuwaylid.” She bore