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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Life of Imam Al-hasan Al-mujtaba Chapter Vi : At the Time of the Two Caliphs part 2 She looked at them and showed her hidden sorrow, saying: “I have hated your world and delighted to depart from you. I will meet Allah and his Apostle carrying sorrows caused by you.

That is because my right has not been kept, nor has the protection for me been respected, nor has the inheritance been accepted, nor has the sacredness been regarded.”[^1] A wife of the Prophet’s visited her and said: “O daughter of Allah’s Apostle, let us take part in washing you!” However, Fatima refused that and said: “Do you want to say in respect of me as you had said in respect of my mother?

I am in no need of your presence.” To the Most High Comrade The illness fatigued the Messenger’s daughter, and sadness exhausted her thin body. Sorrow harmed her gentle, tortured heart, to the extent that death walked towards it, while she was in the dawn and beauty of youth. Alas for the Prophet’s dear daughter and darling! Death quickly approached her; it was time for her to meet her father, for whom she had impatiently longed.

When she came to know that death was close at hand, she summoned Imam Ali (a.s) and told him about her will. She asked him to bury her body in the dark night, to prevent those who had wronged her and denied her right from praying over her and standing by her grave, for they were her and her father’s enemies as she said. Imam Ali went away while he was weeping. He responded to the feelings of his sad soul which time filled with sorrow and sadness.

Fatima asked him to make her a coffin to conceal her sacred body, for the people used to put the dead on a stretcher, that their bodies could be seen. She hated that and wanted none to look at her. As a result she summoned Asma’, daughter of ‘Umays[^2] and told her of what she wanted. She made her a coffin [^1] Al-Ya‘qubi, Tarikh, vol. 2, p. 95. [^2] Asma’ was the daughter of Umays bin Sa‘eed bin al-Harith al-Khath‘ami. Her mother was the daughter of Awf bin Zuhayr bin Kinana.

She had become Muslim before Allah’s Apostle (a.s.) enter al-Arqam’s house in Mecca. She pledged allegiance (to the Prophet). She and her husband Ja‘far bin Abi Talib migrated to the land of al-Habasha (Abyssinai).