On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 9:07:46 AM UTC-7, Paulo Canedo wrote: > Em sexta-feira, 1 de abril de 2016 03:46:52 UTC+1, taf escreveu: > > On Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 7:43:17 PM UTC-7, sabaris...@gmail.com wrote: > > > All Muhammad's sons died in infancy, so that descent from him can only be > > > through the female line. > > > > Correct, and only through daughter Fatima, wife of Ali. > > There are other daughters according to the sunis but not according to shias. According to the Sunnis, Muhammad had additional daughters. However, there are no viable descents from these daughters (there likely is one avenue for descent, but no records survive that would enable one to be traced). Most accounts follow the Sunni version, giving Muhammad the following children: Al-Qasim, d. aged 2 ca 600 Zaynab, b. cay 600 Ruqayyah, b. say 603 Fatima, b. 604 Umm Kalthum, b. say 607 'Abd Allah, d. inf. in 610s Ibrahim, d. aged 2, 632 Zaynab bint Muhammad, b. say 600, married Abu-''As ibn Rabi, and had two children: 'Ali, d. bef. 632 Umamah, m. 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (widower of her aunt Fatima), then Mughirah ibn Nawfal, having sons Muhammad Hilal ibn 'Ali (lived to adulthood but nothing about his family life is known); Awn ibn Ali (only thing known about him is that he lived in what is now Saudi Arabia, and was brother of Hilal); and Yahya ibn Maghira, (again, nothing known other than his existence). Ruqayya bint Muhammad, b. say 603, m. Utbah ibn Abu Lahab, divorced, then married 'Uthman ibn 'Affan. child: 'Abd Allah, d. inf. 626 Fatima, b. 604, m. 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, several children, extensive descent Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad, b. say 607, m. Utaybah ibn Lahab (brother of Utbah), divorced prior to consummation, then married her sister's widower, 'Uthman ibn 'Affan. no children Shi'a historiography would make the elder three daughters children born to Muhammad's wife Khadijah by one of her prior husbands. I have seen claimed descents from Ruqayya and 'Uthman, but these are very late and have all the hallmarks of dynastic invention. taf