Umm ʾAbīhā (Arabic: أمّ أبیها) is an epithet of Lady Fatima (a) which literally means the mother of her father.
Umm Abiha is an Arabic epithet which literally means “the mother of her father”. This epithet was given to daughters by their fathers as a sign of affection and fondness. According to the position of Lady Fatimat al-Zahra (a) toward the Prophet (s) , he used to call her by this epithet. The epithet,[1] is still used by Shi’a to indicate Lady Fatima (a).
In a narration Imam al-Sadiq (a) quotes from Imam al-Baqir (a) that Umm Abiha is Lady Fatima’s (a) teknonym.[2]
‘Abd Allah b. Ja’far b. Abi Talib[3] and Imam al-Kazim (a) also had daughters named “Umm Abiha”.[4]
Notes
- Irbilī, Kashf al-ghumma, vol. 1, p. 438.
- Majlisī, Biḥār al-anwār, vol. 43, p. 19; Abū l-Farj al-Iṣfahānī, Maqātil al-ṭālibīyyīn, p. 29.
- Yaʿquī, Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī, vol. 2, p. 292.
- Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī, vol. 14, p. 5986.
References
- Abū l-Farj al-Iṣfahānī, ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn. Maqātil al-ṭālibīyyīn. Edited by Kāẓim al-Muẓaffar. Najaf: Manshūrāt al-Maktaba al-Ḥaydarīyya, 1385 AH.
- Irbilī, ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā al-. Kashf al-ghumma fī maʿrifat al-aʾimma. Qom: al-Raḍī, [n.d].
- Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir al-. Biḥār al-anwār. Beirut: Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, 1403 AH.
- Ṭabarī, Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-. Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī. Translated to Farsi by Abū l-Qāsim Pāyanda. Qom: Asāṭīr, 1369 Sh.
- Yaʿquī, Aḥmad b. Abī Yaʿqūb al-. Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī. Translated to Farsi by Ibrāhīm Āyatī. Tehran: Bungāh-i Tarjuma wa Nashr, [n.d].
