The Death of Fāṭimah—may Allah be pleased with her:
She was the foremost woman of this ummah, and, according to what has reached us, her honorific was Umm Abīhā (the Mother of her Father). ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with him—took her into his household after the Battle of Badr, when she had completed fifteen years of age, or slightly more.

Among those who transmitted reports from her were: her son al-Ḥusayn, ʿĀʾishah, Umm Salamah, Anas, and others.

We have already mentioned that, during his final illness, the Prophet ﷺ spoke privately to her, and that she later said to Anas: “How could your hearts allow you to cast earth upon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?” Her distinctive virtues are well known and were gathered by Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim.

She was younger than Zaynab and Ruqayyah, and the Prophet’s lineage continued solely through her. Umāmah, the daughter of his daughter Zaynab, married ʿAlī and, after him, al-Mughīrah ibn Nawfal; she bore children by both husbands, yet al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār relates that Zaynab’s line eventually died out.

It is authentically reported from al-Miswar that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Fāṭimah is a part of me; whatever distresses her distresses me, and whatever harms her harms me.”

And concerning Fāṭimah, her husband, and her two sons, the verse was revealed: “Indeed, Allah only intends to remove …”