[2]: 13 Her maternal aunts were Muhammad's daughters Ruqayya, Umm Kulthum and Fatima.
[1]: 27–28, 163–164 Her aunt Fatima requested her husband Ali on her deathbed to marry her niece Umama because Umama had an intense attachment and love for Fatima's children Hasan, Umm Kulthum, Zaynab and especially Husayn.
[1]: 164 [2]: 13, 162 They had two sons, Hilal (also known as Muhammad al-Awsat or Muhammad the Middle)[3]: 12 [4] and Awn, both of whom died in Iran, with the latter having been killed in a battle against Qays ibn Murra (the governor of Khorasan), and the former dying naturally.
[5] Hilal was thought to have fathered a son, named Abu Hashim Abdullah ibn Muhammad, but his fate is not known.
He said that she should not marry "the son of the liver-eater (Hind bint Utba)" and offered to deal with the problem for her.