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Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba (A.S) & Imam Hussein al-shaheed (A.S)

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Muhammad had a total of seven grandchildren.

His eldest daughter Zaynab had two children: Ali ibn Abi'l-Aas, who died in childhood, and Umama bint Abi'l-Aas, who later married Caliph Ali, and later still married Al-Mughira ibn Nawfal. Umama had a son, Muhammad ibn Ali, but it is thought that he had no issue.

His second daughter, Ruqayya, had one son, Abdullah ibn Uthman. He died in childhood after a tragic accident in which a rooster pecked out his eye.

His fourth daughter, Fatima, had four children: Hassan ibn Ali, Hussayn ibn Ali, Zaynab bint Ali and Umm Kulthum bint Ali. (It is sometimes also said that she had a son called Muhsin, but others say that her fifth pregnancy ended in miscarriage.) Zaynab married her cousin, Abdallah ibn Jaafar, and they had five children. Umm Kulthum married Caliph Umar and had two children. She then married her three cousins (Awn, Muhammad and Abdallah, the sons of Jaafar) one after the other, but she had no children by them. The descendants of Zaynab and Umm Kulthum have died out. All of Muhammad's present-day descendants ("the Fatimids") are through Hassan and Hussayn, who were multiply married and had large families.

Sources: see Ibn Saad's Tabaqat, volume 8. The information is on pp. 18, 21, 25, 28, 299-300 in Aisha Bewley's translation.

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