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 "id": "person/asma-bint-marwan",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "asma-bint-marwan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "عصماء بنت مروان",
  "en": "Asma' bint Marwan"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "امرأة من بني أمية بن زيد كانت تحت يزيد بن زيد الخطمي ولها خمسة بنين رجال؛ يقول ابن إسحاق إنها نافقت بعد قتل أبي عفك وقالت شعراً تعيب الإسلام وأهله وتحرّض على النبي، فأجابها حسان، وقتلها عمير بن عدي الخطمي ليلاً في بيتها بعد قول النبي: ألا آخذ لي من ابنة مروان؟",
  "en": "A woman of Banu Umayya ibn Zayd married to Yazid ibn Zayd of Banu Khatma, with five grown sons; Ibn Ishaq says she showed hypocrisy after Abu Afak's killing and composed verses reviling Islam and its people and inciting against the Prophet, which Hassan answered; Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi killed her at night in her house after the Prophet said 'is there no one to deal with the daughter of Marwan for me?'"
 },
 "stub": false,
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  "people"
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  "arabia"
 ],
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  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
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 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "dissent-heresy-freethought",
  "literature",
  "women"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 625.0004449098885,
  "latest": 625.9997809674078
 },
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  "end": {
   "edtf": "0625~",
   "hijri": "0003~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "note": "قُتلت بعد أبي عفك؛ السنة غير منصوصة (needs_source).",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  }
 },
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   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "عصماء بنت مروان"
   },
   {
    "kind": "alternate",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أسماء بنت مروان"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "roles": [
   "poet"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "opponent",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "«نافقت» وقالت شعراً تعيب الإسلام وتحرّض على النبي، عند ابن إسحاق",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0625~",
   "hijri": "0003~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "note": "قُتلت بعد أبي عفك؛ السنة غير منصوصة (needs_source).",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 285-287",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-14"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Fable 5.1; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 285-287; Tier A"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "امرأة من [[group/banu-umayya-ibn-zayd|بني أمية بن زيد]] من الأوس، كانت تحت يزيد بن زيد من [[group/banu-khatma|بني خطمة]]، ولها يوم قُتلت خمسة بنين رجال. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285} {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286} يقول ابن إسحاق إنها لما قُتل أبو عفك «نافقت» وقالت [[work/asma-bint-marwan-verses-against-the-ansar|شعراً]] تعيب فيه الأنصار بطاعة غريب ليس من مراد ولا مذحج، وتتمنى من يغتاله، فأجابها حسان بن ثابت. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286} فقتلها [[person/umayr-ibn-adi-al-khatmi|عمير بن عدي]] في بيتها ليلاً؛ انظر [[event/killing-of-asma-bint-marwan|الخبر ومناظيره]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "علامات الرواية",
     "markdown": "- اسمها «عصماء» في طبعة السقا، و«أسماء» في مصادر أخرى (needs_source).\n- وصف النفاق من كلام ابن إسحاق، والإسناد عن عبد الله بن الحارث بن الفضيل عن أبيه. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/asma-bint-marwan",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A woman of the [[group/banu-umayya-ibn-zayd|Banu Umayya ibn Zayd]] of the Aws, who was married to Yazid ibn Zayd of the [[group/banu-khatma|Banu Khatma]]. On the day she was killed she had five sons who were men. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285} {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286} Ibn Ishaq says that when Abu Afak was killed she \"apostatised\" and said [[work/asma-bint-marwan-verses-against-the-ansar|verses]] blaming the Ansar for obeying a stranger who was neither of Murad nor of Madhhij, and wishing for someone to assassinate him. Hassan ibn Thabit answered her. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286} [[person/umayr-ibn-adi-al-khatmi|Umayr ibn Adi]] killed her in her house at night; see [[event/killing-of-asma-bint-marwan|the report and its variants]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Notes for researchers",
     "markdown": "- Her name is \"Asma'\" in al-Saqqa's edition and \"Asma'\" in other sources (needs review).\n- The description of her apostasy is Ibn Ishaq's own, and the chain goes through Abd Allah ibn al-Harith ibn al-Fudayl from his father. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/asma-bint-marwan",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "[[group/banu-umayya-ibn-zayd|بنو امیہ بن زید]] کی ایک خاتون، جو اوس میں سے تھیں اور [[group/banu-khatma|بنو خطمہ]] کے یزید بن زید کے نکاح میں تھیں۔ جس دن وہ قتل ہوئیں، ان کے پانچ بیٹے مرد تھے۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285} {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286} ابن اسحاق کہتے ہیں کہ ابو عفک کے قتل پر انہوں نے نفاق ظاہر کیا اور [[work/asma-bint-marwan-verses-against-the-ansar|ایک شعر]] کہا جس میں انصار کو ایک اجنبی کی اطاعت پر عیب لگایا، جو نہ مراد میں سے تھا نہ مذحج میں سے، اور ایسے شخص کی تمنا کی جو اسے قتل کر دے۔ حسان بن ثابت نے ان کا جواب دیا۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286} پھر [[person/umayr-ibn-adi-al-khatmi|عمیر بن عدی]] نے رات کو ان کے گھر میں انہیں قتل کر دیا؛ دیکھیے [[event/killing-of-asma-bint-marwan|واقعہ اور اس کی روایات]]۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/286}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "روایت کی علامات",
     "markdown": "- ان کا نام سقا کے نسخے میں «عصماء» ہے، اور دیگر ماخذوں میں «اسماء» (needs_source)۔\n- نفاق کا وصف ابن اسحاق کا کلام ہے، اور سند عبد اللہ بن الحارث بن الفضیل سے ان کے والد تک ہے۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/285}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/asma-bint-marwan",
    "lang": "ur",
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     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
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  "person/abu-afak",
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  "person/abu-musa-al-ashari",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/abu-ubayda-ibn-al-jarrah"
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