Marriages & Progeny

With regard to Hazrat Ali’s (ra) marriages and progeny, it is mentioned that he married a total of eight times during different periods. The names of his wives are as follows: Fatimara, daughter of the Holy Prophet (sa), Khaulah bint Ja‘far bin Qais, Lailah bint Mas‘ud bin Khalid, Umm Al-Baneen bint Hazaam bin Khalid, Asma bint Umais, Sahaba Umm Habib bint Rabi‘ah and Umamah bint Abil Aas bin Rabi‘ – the granddaughter of the Holy Prophet (sa) from his daughter, Hazrat Zainabra – and Umm Saeed bint Urwah bin Masud Thaqafi. Allah the Almighty granted Hazrat Ali (ra) many children who numbered more than 30 – 14 boys and 19 girls. Hazrat Ali’s (ra) progeny continued through Hazrat Hasan (ra), Hazrat Husain (ra), Muhammad bin Hanafiyya, Abbas bin Kilabiya and Amr bin Taghlabiah.

(Ibn Saad, At-Tabaqat-ul-Kubra, Vol. 3 [Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, 1990], p. 14), (Dr Ali Muhammad Salabi, Syedna Ali bin Abi Talib [Translation], [Al-Furqan Trust, Muzaffar Garh, Pakistan], pp. 82-83)