• Parents: Abu Bakr and Umm Ruman
  • Abu Bakr as-Siddiq Abdallah bin Abi Quhafah
  • Wrote the most exclusive shading of the Prophet
  • named as the The daughter of the iman, daughter of siddiq
  • She and her father were the most beneficial in wealth to the Prophet (even her children)
  • Greatest source of comfort to the Prophet and his greatest love
  • Her Names:
    • Habibatu Habiballah
    • As-Sadiqa Binta Sidiq
    • Humaira - beautiful women with reddish complexion (shy or angry)
    • Umm Abdullah - umm = mother of | her nephew Abdullah (maternal aunt is like your mom in Islam)
  • Khadija, Fatima, Maryam AS, Asiya AS —> perfected their iman
  • Khadija greater than Aisha
  • Aisha compared to the other women is superior because she is like the best dish of all and brings fulfillment
  • Her qualities similar to her father
    • Fondness of camels (as seen by her father’s name)
    • Poetry
    • Studied Ancestry
    • Eloquent
    • Sharp
    • Love of Quran
    • Love of charity
    • Love of Prophet Muhammad
  • All of Prophet Muhammad’s other wives were all previously married but they also went to through times of belief and disbelief in Islam
  • Aisha was born after the Prophet’s revelation and said she was born a Muslim and her childhood spent as one (I don’t remember a time in my childhood when my parents weren’t part of Islam. Every time in my childhood was spent with the Prophet coming to her home 2x a day, every day.)
  • Abu Bakr was tortured by brother of Khadija
    • Tie him and beat him
  • Aisha saw her father beaten and defend the Prophet and come home with bruises
    • Beaten so much while defending the Kaba to the point of unconscious
    • Free people with any money he gathered
  • Aisha remember her father studying with her parents perfecting their recitations
    • See her father weeping while reciting/reading the Quran
  • Her memory start at the time of boycott (against Islam and the Prophet)
  • Prophet in his mid-fifties and has been only married to Khadija (unusual at the time since every man wed to multiple women)
  • Khadija mentioned throughout the life of Aisha (but she doesn’t remember her because she was far too young and Khadija had passed away)
  • Deep state of sadness and single father - strange for people at the time