In The Name Of Allah, The Most Compassionate, The Merciful

O Allah! Send your blessings to the head of your Messengers and the
Last of your Prophets Muhammad ( saw ),
and his pure and cleansed progeny.

In memory of the Chief of the Women of Paradise
Hazrat Fatima Az Zahra ( as )

Name : Fatima
Title : Az Zahra ( The Shining )
Al Batul ( The Liberator of Sinners )
Al Azra ( The Clean and the Pure )
Sayyeddatun Nisa ( The Chief of the Women )
Afzalun Nisa ( The Superior Most of Women )
Khairun Nisa ( The Best of Women )
Mariam Al Kubra ( The Senior Mary )
Al Muhraka ( The Blessed One of God )
As Sadiqa ( The Truthful )
Al Muhadissa ( The one who talked to her mother from the womb of her mother prior to her birth )
Kunyat : Umm ul Aimma
Born at : Mecca at Friday, 20th Jamadi Ul Akhar
Fathers name : Holy Prophet Muhammad Ibn e Abdulla
Mothers name : Khadija Bint e Khuwailid
Died at : Age 18 on 14th Jamadi ul Awwal

Hazrat Fatima ( as ) in the Holy Quran

Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth; a likeness of His light is as a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp is in a glass .... [ 25 : 35 ]

Ibn al Maghazli al Shafi'i has related that the niche means Hazrat Fatima ( as ), the lamp means Hasan ( as ) and Hussain ( as ) .....

Give the kinsman his due .... [ 17 : 26 ]

Commentators have written that when this verse was revealed the Holy Prophet ( saw ) asked the Angel Gibrael : Who are the kinsmen and what is their due ? The Angel replied : Give Fidak to Fatima for it is her due, and whatever is due to Allah and the Prophet out of Fadak, that also belongs to her, so entrust it to her also. Thereupon the Holy Prophet called Fatima ( as ) and wrote the deed of gift, giving Fadak to her.

Tafseer Durre Mansoor ( Volume 4 page 177 )

It is Allah's wish to remove all blemish from you, O Ahl al Bayt, and purify you with a perfect purification. [ 33 : 33 ]

Al Tirmizi, Ibn Manthoor, Al Hakim, Ibn Mardawaih and Al Bayhaqi in his Sunan, all recorded the report of Umme Salemah, wife of the Prophet ( saw ) in which she said :

Im my own house the Quranic verse : Certainly God wants to keep away all abominitions from you .... Ali Fatima, Al Hassan and Al Hussein were at my house. The messenger of God covered them with a garment and then said : These are the members of my House. God keep away abomination from them and make them pure and spotless.

Sahih al Tirmizi, Volume 5 page 328 Hadith no. 3875

And whoever disputes with thee concerning him after the inspired knowledge which has been given untoo thee, tell him : ' Come, let us call our sons and your sons; our women and your women; and ourselves and yourselves; then let us pray and invoke Allah's curse upon those who lie. [ 3 : 61 ]

When the above verse came down ( at the time of debate between the Messenger and the Christians from Najran ), the Messenger of God called upon Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Hussein and said : God, these are the members of my family.

Sahih Muslim Volume 15 page 176

This concludes the first part, the second part deals with her marriage to Imam Ali ( as ), followed by Hazrat Fatima ( as ) in the hadiths.

Contributed by abbas@seas.gwu.edu