ʿĀʾisha bt. Ṭalḥa - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Afsaruddin, Asma
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Brill
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ʿĀʾisha bt. Ṭalḥa (d. c.110/728) was the daughter of the well-known Companion of the prophet Muḥammad, Ṭalḥa b. ʿUbaydallāh al-Taymī and Umm Kulthūm, the daughter of Abū Bakr. Thus she was also the niece of her famous namesake, ʿĀʾisha bt. Abī Bakr (d. 58/678), the wife of the Prophet. ʿĀʾisha married three times: first her cousin ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Bakr; then, after he died, Muṣʿab b. al-Zubayr; then, on Muṣʿab's death in 72/691, ʿUmar b. ʿUbaydallāh b. Maʿmar