Our complaints are on their way to Allah -azwj ...

Our complaints are on their way to Allah -azwj , I -asws will not find anyone better than you -saww to share my -asws grief and offer condolence on your -saww daughter’s Shahadat.’ [16] The narrator says once I asked o ur 6 th Imam ( Imam Jafar e Sadiq -asws ) ‘Who washed Syeda Fatimah -asws (for burial)?’ The Imam -asws replied: ‘Amir-ul-Momineen -asws Ali -asws did.’ My reaction to his -asws words seemed to be slightly unusual.

The Imam -asws said, ‘You seem to be unsatisfied by what I -asws said.’ I (the narrator) replied, ‘Yes, may I be sacrificed for your -asws , it is so.’ The Imam -asws then said, ‘Do not be uncomfortable (with what I -asws have told you). The Syeda -asws was the most truthful person and no one has the authority to wash an all-truthful person (Masoom -asws ) but another all-truthful person (Masoom -asws ).

Did you not know that no one could wash Mary -as (for burial) except for the Jesus -as ?’ [17] The Holy Grave of Syeda -asws : The narrator says I asked Imam Ali Al-Reza -asws (our 8 th Imam -asws ) about the grave of Syeda Fatimah -asws . Imam Ali Reza -asws replied that the Syeda -asws was buried in her own house. When the Amawids enlarged the Masjid (Mosque) it became part of the Masjid. [18] [1] See appendix for reference [2] See appendix for reference [3] Al-Kafi, Vol. 1.

Chapter on Masomeen asws , h 6. [4] Ibid, h 7. [5] Ibid, h 8. [6] Ibid, h 10. [7] Ibid, Vol. 8, h 87. [8] Ibid, Vol. 8, h 176. [9] Bayt those days was to accept one as his leader by forwarding one’s right hand as a gesture of one’s support. [10] He was freed by the Messenger of Allah saww after the conquest of Mecca. [11] Kitab Sulaym Ibn Qais Hilali, H. 3 [12] Ibid, h 320. [13] Ibid, h 564. [14] Al-Kafi, Vol. 1, Chapters on History, Syeda Fatimah asws , h 1. [15] Ibid, h 2.

[16] Ibid, h 3, Ayan al-Shia, Vol., 2, Nahjul Israr, vol. 2, Pg. 219 [17] Ibid, h 4. [18] Ibid, h 9.