Umm Kulthum bint Asim
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Umm Kulthum Jamila bint Asim ibn Thabit (Arabic: أم كلثوم جميلة بنت قاسم بن ثابت) was one of the wifes of Umar, the second Sunni Caliph.
Sources avaible to this article have not established if Asim ibn Thabit was her father, or if he just shared her fathers name and patronymic.
[edit] Biography
Shibli Nomani, a 20th century Sunni Islamic scholar writes:
Asim ibn Umar would become the grandfather of Umar II, the Fifth Sunni Caliph.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Al-Muwatta 37 6.6
- ^ Al-Faruq, English Translation, Volume II Pages 340 --> 343 Chapter XIX ( His Family )
