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She was, as the Messenger of Allah said, the leader of all the ladies of the world; therefore, all Muslims respected and revered her due to the status which she had earned with her father and because of the traditions which he stated about her virtues, honor, and purity. But Abu Bakr and Umar deliberately tried to remove such respect and regard from the hearts of the public.

Umar ibn al-Khattab once approached Fatima's house bearing a torch of fire and threatened to burn the house and everyone inside it if its residents refused to come out to swear the oath of allegiance to Abu Bakr. In his Al-`Iqd al-Fareed , Ibn Abd Rabbih says, As regarding Ali, al-Abbas, and al-Zubayr, these stayed at Fatima's house till…