Layla bt. Abi Murra: Difference between revisions

'''Laylā bt. Abī Murra b. 'Urwa b. Mas'ūd al-Thaqafī''' (Arabic: لیلی بنت أبی مرّة بن عروة بن مسعود الثقفی) was [[Imam Husayn (a)]]’s wife and [['Ali al-Akbar (a)]]’s mother. She is paternally from the Thaqif tribe and maternally from [[Banu Umayya]]. Some people took her to be the best-known lady of her time. The name, Layla, is well-known in the common Shiite culture, because she was 'Ali al-Akbar (a)’s mother. There is a disagreement about whether she was present in [[Karbala]].

In most sources, her name is mentioned as “Layla”, but in his ''al-Tabiqat al-kubra'', ibn Sa'd mentioned her as Āmina (Arabic: آمنة), and according to some contemporary scholars, her name was Umm Layla. This is why in some [[rawda]] meetings she is referred to as Umm Layla.

Layla’s father was Abu Murra b. 'Urwa b. Mas'ud b. Mu'attab b. Malik b. Ka'b b. 'Amr b. Sa'd b. 'Uf b. Thaqif. He was born in the period of [[the Prophet Muhammad (s)]]. Both Abu Murra and 'Urwa were from the Prophet (s)’s [[Sahaba]]. Abu Murra went to the Prophet (s) together with his brother and converted to Islam. [['Urwa b. Mas'ud]] was one of the al-Sadat al-Arba'a (the Four Heads) and a senior Arab. He is assimilated to [[Sahib Yasin]] and the most similar person to [[Jesus the Christ]]. Layla’s mother, Maymuna, was the daughter of [[Abu Sufyan]] from Banu Umayya, and was known as Umm Shayba.

There is no evidence of Layla’s presence in the [[Event of Karbala]] in early sources, but some later sources referred to her presence in Karbala. On this account, Layla was praying for her son, 'Ali al-Akbar (a), when he was martyred, and she witnessed the mutilation of his corpse by the enemies.