

Asiya ordered that the crate be drawn ashore. Īsiya and her maids found a crate floating in the Nile river.

Maurice Bucaille commented that the wife of Pharaoh who contended with Moses is the one in Quran 66, while another early wife of another Pharaoh is the one who adopted him in Quran 28. She realized that faith was far more important and was thus exalted by God amongst the women of her generation. Although she had exceeding wealth, she was not arrogant like the Pharaoh. Unlike her husband, she was humble and accepted the faith that Moses and Aaron were preaching. Īsiya's marriage to the Pharaoh was arranged. In Sahih Bukhari, Prophet said "Many men were completed, and only Asiya, the wife of Pharaoh, and Maryam bint Imran, were completed among the women". Narrative Īnd Allah sets forth an example for the believers: the wife of Pharaoh, who prayed, “My Lord! Build me a house in Paradise near You, deliver me from Pharaoh and his ˹evil˺ doing, and save me from the wrongdoing people.” Asiya died while being tortured by her husband, who had discovered her monotheism and retaliated to her rebellion against his tyranny. Some fringe interpreters added Asiyah was the name of another queen the pharaoh wife that adopted Moses and convinced her husband not to kill him. Al-Tha'labi goes even to claim that Moses in his extra biblical instructions named the continent Asia probably after her. In Quran She prayed to God to save her from Pharaoh and his works and the abusive people the priests and sorcerers of Haman the high priest of Amon, and so Al-Tha'labi a Jewish convert to Islam and knowledgeable of Israelayt the saga of the Jews, claimed that god answered her prayers and probably she ran away with Moses and died in the desert as he thinks she might had been the woman in Bible that Merriam sister of Moses criticized calling her Ethiopian and god punished Merriam by getting her a skin disease forced her into seclusion and quarantine until Moses responded to Moses prayers to heal his sister.

The tradition holds that Asiya worshipped God in secret and prayed in disguise fearing her husband. She is believed to have secretly accepted monotheism after witnessing the miracle of Moses. She is revered by Muslims as one of the four greatest women of all time, and according to a prophetic narration in Sahih al-Bukhari, the second ever. Illustration from the Persian Jami' al-tawarikhĪsiya wife of Pharaoh of Exodus ( Arabic: آسِيَة بِنْت مُزَاحِم, romanized: Āsiya bint Muzāḥim) written in Arabic as Ãsiyah, was, according to the Qur'an and Islamic tradition, the wife of the Pharaoh of the Exodus, Īsiya is distinct from the wife of Pharaoh the adoptive mother of Moses mentioned in Surah/chapter Al-Qasas in Quran, identified as Bithiah in the Jewish tradition. The river waves and crests are done in the Chinese style. Asiya (depicted with long black tresses) and her servants, having finished bathing, find baby Moses in the Nile.
