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- Asiyah was wife of Pharaoh during time of Moses
- One of the best women according to hadith http://sunnah.com/urn/637660
- In Islam, she rescued Moses from basket in river
- Bible says woman who rescued Moses was actually Pharaoh’s daughter
- Jewish texts also say she was exiled for rescuing him.
- Moses’ sister suggested her mother to nurse Moses as a baby
- Asiyah was a righteous woman but married to an evil man
- Prayed to Allah to rescue her
- Some Muslim sources say she was tortured to death by Pharaoh
- Pharaoh gave her an ultimatum to leave Musa’s faith but she did not
- He ordered her stoned but she was shown her house in paradise and her soul was taken before stone landed
- Hence the verse about asking Allah to build a house for her in Paradise 66:11
- Other sources say she left during the Exodus with Musa and the Children of Israel