Shaykh al-Mufid too considered Abū-Bakr as the kunyah.

Shaykh al-Mufid too considered Abū-Bakr as the kunyah. He too was martyred in Karbala’. Asma’ bint `Umays al-Khath`amiyyah Ibn al-Athir writes in al-Kamil that Muhammad al-Asghar was born to her. Ibn Sa`d writes in al-tabaqat that she gave birth to Yahya and `Awn. Yahya died while `Ali (a.s) was alive and `Awn died in the battle of Karbala’. Ummu-Habib al-Sahba’ bint Rabi`ah al-Taghlubiyyah She gave birth to one son, `Umar al-Atraf and one daughter Ruqayyah al-Kubra. They were both born as twins.

Ruqayyah al-Kubra was married to Muslim ibn `Aqil. Khawlah bint Ja`far al-Hanafiyyah She gave birth to Muhammad who was well-known with the title of Ibn al-Hanafiyyah. His kunyah was Abul-Qasim. He died at al-Ta’if in 81 A.H. Umm-Sa`id bint `Urwah al-Thaqafiyyah Ibn ShahrAshūb writes that she gave birth to Nafisah, Zaynab al-Sughra and Ruqayyah al-Sughra. Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin writes that she gave birth to Umm al-Hasan and Ummu-Kulthūm al-Sughra.

Some chroniclers write that Ummu-Kulthūm was Nafisah’s kunyah. Ummu-Shu`ayb al-Makhzūmiyyah Ibn ShahrAshūb writes that Umm al-Hasan and Ramlah, two daughters were born to her. Mukhabba`ah bint Imru’ al-Qays She gave birth to one daughter who died in her childhood. Besides these wives, Amir al-Mu’minin had several slave girls whom he had married.

The daughters born through these alliances were Ummu-Hani’, Maymūnah, Zaynab al-Sughra, Ramlah al-Sughra, Fatimah Umamah, Khadijah, Ummul-Kiram, Ummu-Salamah, Ummu-Ja`far, Jumanah and Nafisah. At the time of the death of `Ali (a.s) the surviving wives were Umamah, Asma’ bint `Umays and Ummul-Banin besides the eighteen slave girls. His progeny continued with Imam al-Hasan (a.s), Imam al-Husayn (a.s), Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, `Abbas and `Umar al-Atraf.

Some chroniclers say that the total number of children he had was twenty-five, some others say that it was twenty-eight and others say they were thirty-three or thirty-five. The reason for this difference is perhaps some of them had counted the name and the kunyah as separate persons. Some have counted Muhsin in the list of children and others have not. Previous…