al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām. He then consulted the Prophet ﷺ, who said, “Is it her lineage you are asking me about?”

ʿAlī replied, “I already know her lineage, but do you command me to marry her?”

The Prophet said, “No. Fāṭimah is a part of me, and I fear she would feel grief or distress.”

ʿAlī said, “I will not do anything that displeases her.” (1)

al-Tirmidhī recorded in his Jāmiʿ, on the authority of ʿĀʾishah, that she was asked, “Who among the people was dearest to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?” She answered, “Among the women it was Fāṭimah, and among the men it was her husband, and to the best of my knowledge he was one who fasted often and stood in prayer at night.” (2)

I say: its chain of transmission is not sound.

And in the Jāmiʿ, Zayd ibn Arqam relates that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to them both and to their two sons, “I am at peace with whoever is at peace with you, and at war with whoever is at war with you.” (3)

Among her daughters were: Umm Kulthūm, the wife of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, and Zaynab, the wife of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib.

Al-Aʿmash reported—from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Abū al-Bakhtarī—that ʿAlī said to his mother: “Take care of the work outside the house for Fāṭimah, and she will handle for you the tasks inside the house—kneading, baking, and grinding.” (4)

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Nuʿm reported—from Abū Saʿīd—from the Prophet ﷺ: “Fāṭimah…"