Whenever she came to him he used to welcome her stand for...

Whenever she came to him he used to welcome her stand for her kiss her take her hand and seat her in his place."[^12] Ayeshah said also about Fatima: "I never witnessed a person truer than Fatimah after her father."[^13] Outstanding companions wooed the hand of Fatima but the Prophet rejected them saying: "I am waiting for a Directive concerning her." (He meant that he was waiting for an order from God.) When ‘Ali wooed her hand the Prophet welcomed him and ‘Ali married her in the first year after the Hijrah.

She was moved to him in the following year after the Battle of Badr. This marriage was destined to be unique in its consequences. Of its fruits were the two gems of this nation: Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein about whom the Holy Prophet said: "An Angel came from Heaven to give me the good tidings: That Fatima is the…