THE WIVES AND CHILDREN OF ABU BAKR.

He had in the time of ignorance married Qutylah, the daughter of A’bdu-l-a’zyz and Omm Rûmân, the daughter of Jâber B. O’mayrah. His son A’bdullah and [his daughter] Asmâ Dhâtu-n-nattâqyn he had by Qutylah, but A’bdu-r-rahman and A´ayshah [who became the wife of the prophet] he had by Omm Rûmân. In the time of Islâm he married Asmâ, the daughter of O’mys; she bore to him Muhammad, whom A’li brought up, and who engaged so much in prayer that he was surnamed the ascetic of the Quraish, and something about Muhammad B. Abu Bakr will be narrated in these pages. It is said that Abu Quhâfah, the father of Abu Bakr, departed this life during the Khalifate of O’mar, and that he was received into the proximity of divine mercy after ninety-nine years of his age had elapsed.