Who was Fāṭima bint Muḥammad?
The Prophet's ﷺ daughter, wife of ʿAlī, mother of Ḥasan and Ḥusayn. The hadith that she is the mistress of the women of Paradise.
3 passages from 1 book in the library
The classical approach.
These passages are drawn from 1 book by Ibn Battuta — part of the classical Sunni tradition that carries over a thousand years of reflection on the Qurʾān, the authentic Sunnah, and the consensus of the early community. Nothing below is a paraphrase. The words are the scholars' own, translated from the original Arabic manuscripts.
14th century · Tangier, Morocco
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"Prince Qutub al-Zahra, his minister, launched an assault with 20,000 Muslims, to which the Tatars could not hold their ground and were defeated."
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"He established justice and arranged the armies in Malik, leaving his minister Qutub al-Zahra there, before returning to Samarkand and Bukhara."
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"The first to come to him was Allah al-Muqt Qutub al-Zahra, the ruler of Termez, a noble and prominent commander of Hussaini lineage."
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