be peace—(1) at that, and departed (2). She swore that she would speak neither to him nor to his companion (3) until she met her father and complained to him (4). When death drew near, she instructed ʿAlī to bury her at night (5) and not allow any of them to perform the funeral prayer over her. Yet they have all narrated that the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said: ‘O Fātimah, Allah Most High is angered by your anger and is pleased by your pleasure.’ They have also all narrated (6) [that he said] (7): ‘Fātimah (8) is a part of me. Whoever harms her has harmed me, and whoever harms me has harmed Allah.’
If this report were truly authentic (9), he could not lawfully have left the mule that the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—left behind, together with his sword and turban, in the possession of the Commander of the Faithful, ʿAlī; nor could he (10) have ruled that they belonged to him when al-ʿAbbās claimed them. The Prophet’s Household, whom Allah purified of defilement in His Book, would then have been committing something unlawful (11), since charity is forbidden to them.
Thereafter, funds from Bahrain came to him (12) while Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ansārī was with him. Jābir said to him: ‘The Prophet