Brewer's: Mother of Believers

Ay-e'-shah, the second and favourite wife of Mahomet; so called because Mahomet being the “Father of Believers,” his wife of wives was Mother of Believers.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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