What is the parentage of lady Narjis (the mother of Imam Mahdi)?
The mother of Imam Mahdi, as the one giving birth to the last divine savior, must have a highly exalted status of spiritual perfection. Unfortunately, for some reason, especially her being in a suffocating and unbearable climate, our understanding of that noble lady is very limited. Following some Islamic narrations and historical reports, there are some general possibilities of her identity:
1. She was a Roman princess captured in a battle by Muslims;
2. She was a slave girl trained in the house of lady Hakīmah (the aunt of Imam ʿAskarī).
However, according to a well-known saying that is derived from some narrations, she was a slave captured subsequently joined the family of Imam Hassan ʿAskarī. As will be mentioned in the following story, there is no contradiction between these two narrations.
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