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عائشة بنت أبي بكر

'A'ishah (RA)

'A'ishah bint Abi Bakr

Also known as: Aisyah, Aisha, Umm al-Mu'minin, al-Siddiqah

c. 9 BH – 58 AH · c. 613–678 CE

Companions

Mother of the Believers, daughter of Abu Bakr, and one of the greatest scholars among the Companions.

'A'ishah was the daughter of Abu Bakr and grew up in a Muslim household in Makkah. She married the Prophet ﷺ and joined his household in Madinah, where the Prophet ﷺ spent his final illness in her room and was buried there.

She was one of the most learned of the Companions in the Quran, hadith, law, poetry and medicine. She narrated over two thousand hadith, and senior Companions brought their legal questions to her. Her innocence from a slander spread against her was declared in the Quran (24:11–20). After the Prophet ﷺ she taught for nearly fifty years, and many of the jurists of Madinah were her students.

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Life journey

  1. c. 613 CE Makkah مكة
  2. 622 CE Madinah المدينة
    Died 678 CE · 58 AH
    The Prophet ﷺ passed away in her room, where he is buried. She was buried in al-Baqi'.

In the Quran

24:11-20

Places in their life

The Ka'bah in al-Masjid al-Haram, Makkah
The Ka'bah in al-Masjid al-Haram, Makkah
Photo: Adli Wahid (minor modifications by Basile Morin), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
al-Masjid al-Nabawi, the Prophet's Mosque, Madinah
al-Masjid al-Nabawi, the Prophet's Mosque, Madinah
Photo: TheHadiRahim, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

  • Sahih al-Bukhari (Book of the Virtues of the Companions; Book of Tafsir, Surah al-Nur)
  • al-Dhahabi, Siyar A'lam al-Nubala'
  • Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, al-Isaba fi Tamyiz al-Sahaba
Draft, awaiting scholarly review.
Birth year follows the reports in Sahih al-Bukhari (c. 4–5 years after prophethood); some modern writers argue for an earlier date. The bio deliberately does not state her age at marriage; please advise.