17 – Fāṭimah bint Asad ibn Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Quṣayy, the Hāshimite *
mother of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
She was Fāṭimah’s mother-in-law, one of the earliest Emigrants, and the first Hāshimite woman to give birth to a Hāshimite child.
This was stated by al-Zubayr.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said:
It was narrated by Saʿdān ibn al-Walīd al-Sabari, from ʿAṭāʾ, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
“When Fāṭimah, the mother of ʿAlī, died, the Prophet ﷺ clothed her in his own shirt and lay down with her in her grave.
They said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, we have never seen you do such a thing!’
He replied, ‘After Abū Ṭālib, no one was kinder to me than she was. I dressed her in my shirt so that she may be robed in the garments of Paradise, and I lay down with her so that her ordeal would be eased.’”
This report is singular (1).
18 – Fāṭimah, daughter of the Messenger of Allah ** ﷺ – (ʿ)
Mistress of the women of the worlds in her era, a very part of the Prophet himself, the chosen branch of his household,
(*) Ibn Maʿin, History, p. 739; Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 8/222; Khalifa, History, p. 180; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif, pp. 71, 120, 203; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, 3/108; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istiʿab, 4/1891; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah, 7/217; al-Haythami, Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid, 9/257; Ibn Hajar, al-Isabah, 13/77; al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Kanz al-ʿUmmal, 13/635.
(1) Al-Istiʿab, 13/108. Al-Haythami also records it in Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid, 9/257, commenting: “It is transmitted by al-Tabarani in al-Awsat; among its transmitters is Saʿdan b. al-Walid al-Sabari, whom I do not know, while the rest are trustworthy.” The report is likewise cited in Kanz al-ʿUmmal, 13/636, where it is attributed to Abu Nuʿaym’s al-Maʿrifah and to al-Daylami.
(* *) Ahmad b. Hanbal, Musnad, 6/282; Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 8/19-30; Khalifa, Tabaqat, p. 330; Khalifa, History, pp. 65, 96; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif, pp. 141, 142, 158, 200; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, 2/34, 39; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, 3/151-161; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istiʿab, 4/1893; Ibn al-Athir (comp.), Jamiʿ al-Usul, 9/125; Usd al-Ghabah, 7/220; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 1690; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 1/360; Idem, al-ʿIbar, 1/13; al-Haythami, Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid, 9/201-212; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 12/440-442; Idem, al-Isabah, 13/71; al-Khazin, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 494; al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Kanz al-ʿUmmal, 13/674; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 1/9, 10, 15.