Fāṭimah bint Muḥammad
فاطمة بنت محمد
- Dates
- 605–632 CE / 18 BH–11 AH
- Relation to the Prophet ﷺ
- Youngest daughter of the Prophet ﷺ
The Prophet's ﷺ most beloved daughter. The only one of his children to survive him — by less than six months.
Life
Fāṭimah was the Prophet's ﷺ youngest daughter with Khadījah, born five years before the first revelation. She watched her mother die, saw her father stoned and exiled, emigrated to Madinah, and married ʿAlī in a marriage the community still treats as the template for a simple, dignified Muslim wedding.
She bore al-Ḥasan, al-Ḥusayn, Zaynab, and Umm Kulthūm — the only surviving lineage of the Prophet ﷺ. Her relationship with her father was extraordinarily tender; the Prophet ﷺ stood when she entered a room, sat her in his seat, kissed her forehead. She died six months after him, in terrible grief, at twenty-seven.
Passages that mention Fāṭimah
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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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"Qutub al-Zahra was one of the valiant warriors. Commanders from every direction gathered to support Khalil."
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"Fatima and al-Bazaar from Abu Huraira. Allah loves the rich, forbearing, and restrained, though there"
Also from this generation
- Khadījah bint Khuwaylid
خديجة بنت خويلد
The first person to accept Islam. The Prophet ﷺ, after her death, never said her name without his eyes filling.
- ʿĀʾishah bint Abī Bakr
عائشة بنت أبي بكر
The most learned of the companions in matters of fiqh, the most prolific female narrator, and the primary source for the inner life of the Prophet ﷺ.
- Ḥafṣah bint ʿUmar
حفصة بنت عمر
The wife to whom the first collected muṣḥaf of the Qurʾan was entrusted after Abū Bakr's death.