Asad ibn Hashim (Arabic: أسد بن هاشم) was the son of Hashim ibn Abd al-Manaf. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Hashim ibn Abd al-Manaf (هاشم بن عبد مناف (died ca He was the father of Fatima bint Asad, the mother of Ali. Fatimah bint Asad ( فاطمه بنت اسد) was the mother of first Shi’a Imam Ali bin Abu Talib, and the mother-in-law of Muhammad 's daughter ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (a=علي بن أﺑﻲ طالب|t=ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib 13th Rajab, 24 BH – 21st Ramaḍān, 40 AH