Ayesha captured by the soldiers of Ali during the Battle of the Camel, Basra, Iraq, 7 November 656. ?????'ishah bint Ab? Bakr, also spelled A'ishah, Aisyah, Ayesha, A'isha, Aishat, Aishah, or Aisha, c.613/614 - 678. One of Muhammad's wives. Ali, 601 - 661. Cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad. From Ward and Lock's Illustrated History of the World, published c.1882.