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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

The Compendium of Festivals - Maymun Ibn Qasim Al-Tabarani

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As for the thirty nights—its nights—they are thirty women, the personified essences of the thirty nights of the Month of Ramadan. They are: Amina bint Wahb ibn 'Abd Manaf (who is from 'Abd al-Dar and not from 'Abd Manaf the father of Hashim), Khadija bint Khuwaylid, Fatima bint Asad, Zainab, Ruqayya, Umm Kulthum (who is Amina), and Fatima al-Zahra—the daughters of al-Sayyid Muhammad from Khadija—and Maymuna bint al-Harith al-Hilaliyya, Umm Ayman, Umm Salama, and Safiyya—the wives of the Messenger of Allah—and Fakhita Umm Hani, Jumana bint Abi Talib, Umama bint Zainab daughter of the Messenger of Allah, al-Rabab bint Imru’ al-Qays al-Hilaliyya, Safiyya bint 'Abd al-Muttalib, Zainab al-Hawla’ the Perfumer (al-’Attara), Fidda, and Rayhana. And Asma’ bint ‘Umays al-Khath‘amiyya, Mariya the Copt, Umm Malik—the wife of Sa‘d ibn Malik al-Ansari—Amata Allah bint Khalid ibn Sinan al-’Absi, Arwa bint al-Harith ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib, Umm Ishaq, Amina bint al-Sharid—the wife of ‘Amr ibn al-Hamiq al-Khuza‘i—Umm Ma‘bad, and Fatima bint ‘Imran ibn ‘A’idh—the mother of ‘Abd Allah, Abu Talib, and al-Zubayr (the children of ‘Abd al-Muttalib)—and Zainab bint Jahsh, and Halima al-Sa‘diyya, the wet-nurse of the Messenger, peace be from her. This is the complete count of the personified essences (Ashkhas) of the nights of the Month of Ramadan.

And among the nights of the Month of Ramadan for Fatir [the Creator/Breaker]: are the nineteenth night, the twenty-first night, and the twenty-third night, in which the Night of Power (Laylat al-Qadr) is expected. And it [Laylat al-Qadr] is the night of the middle of Sha‘ban, in which occurs the visitation (Ziyara) of our Master al-Husayn, may His Might be exalted.

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