Asiya binti Muzahim

Asiya bint Muzahim, was the Great Royal Wife of the ancient Egypt's Firaun and the adoptive mother of Islamic prophet Musa. She is revered by Muslims as one of the four greatest women of all time, and according to a prophetic narration in Sahih al-Bukhari, the second ever. When she witnessed the death of a believing woman under her husband's torture, she declared her faith before Pharaoh who tried to turn her away from the faith, but Asiya refused to reject the God and the teaching of Moses. On Pharaoh's order, she was tortured to death