Editing Muhammad bin Ladin (section)

== Wives and children ==

He fathered a total of 52 children<ref>{{cite news |title=Osama Bin Laden: PROFILE |url=https://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/binladen/timeline.html |access-date=2 August 2021 |agency=[[CNN]]}}</ref> by 22 wives.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Atkins |first1=Stephen |title=Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups |date=2004 |page=49 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9780313324857 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8k4rEPvq_8C&dq=mohammed+bin+laden+11+wives&pg=PA49 |access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref> He had three wives who mostly remained the same, but would divorce and frequently change his fourth wife.<ref name=saud /> This practice kept within the bounds of [[Polygyny in Islam|Islamic guidance of polygyny]], which permits men to have up to four wives at one time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kramer |first=Stephanie |date=2020-12-07 |title=Polygamy is rare around the world and mostly confined to a few regions |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/12/07/polygamy-is-rare-around-the-world-and-mostly-confined-to-a-few-regions/ |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=Pew Research Center |language=en-US}}</ref>

His widely-known son is the founder of [[al-Qaeda]], [[Usama bin Ladin|Osama bin Ladin]] ({{langx|ar|أسا‌مة بن لا‌د‌ن }}), although the two seldom saw each other and only once had a one-on-one meeting together.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bergen |first1=Peter L. |title=The Rise and Fall of Osama Bin Laden |date=2 August 2022 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-9821-7053-0 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=anp5EAAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> Osama's mother, [[Hamida al-Attas]], ({{langx|ar|حميدة العطاس}}) was born and raised in Syria before marrying Muhammad bin Ladin and moving to Saudi Arabia. She was non-traditional, known more for wearing [[Chanel]] trouser suits rather than the veiled, conservative attire typical of Saudi women. She was neither Wahhabi nor Saudi, and her foreign origin diminished her status within the conservative Saudi family where she became known as "the slave wife".  

According to [[Carmen bin Ladin]], Muhammad was planning to wed a 23rd wife the night he died, and was heading there when his plane crashed.<ref name=CBLpp65-66>{{Citation
|last=Bin Laden
|first=Carmen
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xPn-MbYyId8C
|title=Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
|publisher=Hachette Book Group
|year=2005
|isbn=0-446-61694-X
|pages=65–66}}</ref>