آسِيَة زوجة فرعون Asiya wife of Pharaoh | |
|---|---|
| Known for | Wife of the Pharaoh |
| Spouse | Pharaoh |
| Children | Mūsā (Adopted) |
| Father | Muzāḥim |
Asiya bint Muzahim (Arabic: آسِيَة بِنْت مُزَاحِم, romanized: Āsiya bint Muzāḥim) was, according to the Qur'an and Islamic tradition, the wife of the Pharaoh of the Exodus and adoptive mother of Moses.[2][3]
Asiya was the wife of Pharaoh and the adoptive mother of Moses, first mentioned in Surah Al-Qasas in the Quran,[3] identified as Bithiah in the Jewish tradition.[4] She is revered by Muslims as one of the four greatest women of all time, and according to a prophetic narration in Sahih al-Bukhari, the second ever.[5][6]
She is believed to have secretly accepted monotheism after witnessing the miracle of Moses. The tradition holds that Asiya worshipped Allah in secret and hid her religion from her husband. However, later her faith was revealed and the Pharaoh ordered her execution.[7]
Al-Tha'labi, an Islamic scholar, considered that Moses named the continent Asia after her.[8]
- ^ Avner Gilʻadi (1999). Infants, Parents and Wet Nurses: Medieval Islamic Views on Breastfeeding and Their Social Implications. Brill Publishers. ISBN 9789004112230.
- ^ Bucaille, Maurice (1994). Written at Tokyo. Moses and Pharaoh: In the Bible, Qur'an and History. Tokyo, Japan: NTT Mediascope, Inc. p. 191. ISBN 9789675062056.
For what we know of the position in history of the life of Moses has shown us that the king who reigned at the time of his birth was not the sovereign of Egypt at the time when Moses and Pharaoh were confronting each other before the Exodus. The same is true for the so-called wife of Pharaoh.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ a b Ibn Ashur, Muhammad. Tafsir al-Tahrir wa'l-Tanwir | The Book of Liberation and Enlightenment تفسير التحرير والتنوير (in Arabic). ISBN 9973767233.
And Asiyah the Pharaoh's wife is the wife of Pharaoh to whom Moses was sent, and not the wife of Pharaoh who adopted Moses when she picked him up from the river, because that happened during the time of Pharaoh Ramesses II, and there were eighty years between the two times. They had no knowledge of religion before Moses was sent to them.
- ^ "Daughter of Pharaoh: Midrash and Aggadah". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
The midrash calls the daughter of Pharaoh "Bithiah," identifying her with the woman mentioned in I Chron 4:18: "And his Judahite wife bore Jered father of Gedor, Heber father of Soco, and Jekuthiel father of Zanoah.
- ^ Muhmmad al-Bukhari. Sahih Al-Bukhari Translated into English Prose by Muhammad Muhsin Khan.Hadith 7.329
- ^ Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an. Leidan: Brill, 2001. Print.
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:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Abu ishaq al-Tha'labi. ʿArāʾis al-madjālis fī ḳiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ Stories of the prophets.