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'''Laylā bt. Abī Murra b. ʿUrwa b. Masʿūd al-Thaqafī''' (Arabic:{{ia| لیلیٰ بنت أبي مرّة بن عروة بن مسعود الثقفي}}) was [[Imam Husayn]]'s (a) wife and [['Ali al-Akbar]]'s (a) 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's (a) 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:{{ia| 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|Abu Murra b. 'Urwa b. Mas'ud b. Mu'attib]], from  [[Thaqif tribe]]. Abu Murra was born in the period of [[the Prophet Muhammad (s)]]. Both Abu Murra and [['Urwa b. Mas'ud|'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.

Imam Husayn (a) married Umm Layla, and she gave birth to [['Ali al-Akbar (a)]]. She is mostly known by Shiites because she is mentioned in rawdas regarding 'Ali al-Akbar (a).

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.

[[Imam 'Ali (a)]] also had a wife called [[Layla bt. Mas'ud]]. She was the mother of [[Abu Bakr b. 'Ali]], a [[martyr]] of Karbala. Sometimes she is confused with Layla, the mother of 'Ali al-Akbar(a).