did he take a concubine.
After she passed away, however, he married again and kept concubines—may Allah be pleased with him.
When the Prophet ﷺ died, she was overwhelmed with grief and wept for him, saying:
“O my dear father! To Gabriel we now announce his death!
O my dear father! He answered a Lord who summoned him!
O my dear father! The Garden of Firdaws is his abode!”
After he had been buried she exclaimed, “O Anas, how could your hearts consent to heap earth upon the Messenger of Allah (1) ﷺ!”
During his final illness he had said to her, “I shall be taken in death during this illness of mine,” and she wept. He then informed her that she would be the first of his family to join him, and that she was the foremost lady among the women of this community. She laughed and kept the matter to herself.
When he ﷺ passed away, ʿĀʾishah asked her about it, and she related what he had confided to her (2).
ʿĀʾishah—may Allah be pleased with her—said, “Fāṭimah came walking; her gait did not differ from the gait of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He rose to meet her and said, ‘Welcome, my daughter!’ (3)”
After her father’s death her hopes were attached to his inheritance, so she came to Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq to claim it. He told her that he had heard the Prophet ﷺ say, “We prophets are not inherited from; whatever we leave behind…"
(1) Reported by al-Bukhari, Sahih, 8/113, at the end of the Book of Maghazi, chapter “The last words spoken by the Prophet, peace be upon him.” The chain runs: Hammad → Thabit → Anas, who said: “When the Prophet, peace be upon him, became gravely ill and would lapse into unconsciousness, Fatimah exclaimed, ‘What hardship for my father!’ He replied, ‘After today your father will suffer no hardship.’ When he passed away, she said: ‘O my father…’
(2) Reported by al-Bukhari, 6/462, in the Book of the Prophets, chapter “The signs of prophethood in Islam”; also in the Book of the Virtues of the Companions, chapter “Merits of the Prophet’s kin,” in the Book of Maghazi, chapter “The Prophet’s illness and death,” and in the Book of Seeking Permission, chapter “Who may confer privately in public and who discloses a companion’s secret after his death.” Also reported by Muslim (no. 2450) in the Book of the Virtues of the Companions, chapter “The merits of Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet,” and by Abu Dawud (no. 5217).
(3) This is an extract from the aforementioned agreed-upon hadith, except for the phrase fa qama ilayha (then he rose to meet her), which is found only in Abu Dawud (no. 5217) and al-Tirmidhi (no. 3872). Its chain is hasan; al-Hakim authenticated it (3/154) and al-Dhahabi concurred. The wording agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim reads: “When he saw her, he welcomed her, saying, ‘Welcome, my daughter,’ and seated her to his right.”