The Mother of her Father History not only always speaks of the `great ones'...

The Mother of her Father History not only always speaks of the `great ones', it only attends to them. Children are always forgotten. Fatima is the youngest child in the family. Her childhood passes in a storm. Her birth date is debated. Tabari, ibn Ishaq and Sirah ibn Hashim mention five years before the Prophet's mission. Morravej al Zahib Masoudi mentions the opposite, five years after the Prophet's mission. Yaqubi takes the middle, but not exactly, by recording, `after the revelation'.

Thus, there is a difference of opinion among the recorders of the Traditions. The Sunnis, then say, five years before…