Fatimah bint Sa'd

Who is Fatimah bint Sa'd?

Fatimah bint Sa’d was the paternal great-great-great-great-grandmother and maternal great-great-great-grandmother of Islamic prophet Muhammad.

She was daughter of Sa’d of Banu Azd of Yemen. She married Kilab ibn Murrah and bore him two sons. Her elder son Zuhrah ibn Kilab was the progenitor of the Banu Zuhrah clan, and his younger son Qusai ibn Kilab became the first Quraysh custodian of the Ka'aba. After his death she married Rabi‘ah ibn Haram from the Bani Azra tribe, who took her with him to as-Sham, where she gave birth to a son called Darraj.