Thereafter, the remaining food with the plate ascended to heaven.
Thereafter, the remaining food with the
plate ascended to heaven. Then he (S) started to prepare himself for
prayers when Gabriel said to him:
"Prayer is forbidden to you until you go to Khadijah’s house and
perform coition with her; for Allah (Glory be to Him) ordained upon
Himself to create noble progeny from you tonight.' So he rushed to
Khadijah said: "I had gotten used to seclusion by that time, so when
night arrived I covered my head, put down the curtains, locked the
doors, performed my prayers, put out the lantern, and retired to my
bed. That night while I was between the states of sleeping and being
awake, the Prophet knocked on the door; so I exclaimed: Who is
knocking on the door that only Muhammad knocks on?"
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The Prophet gently and politely replied: "Open the door Khadijah, I am
Khadijah said: "I cheerfully got up and opened the door for the Prophet
to come in. He (S) usually requested the water jug to perform ablution
and two short prayer prostrations before he retired. On the contrary,
that night he (S) did not request the jug nor did he perform prayers... instead, what occurs between a woman and her husband occurred
between us; and by Allah, who created the heavens and caused water
to come out of springs, before the Prophet left me, I felt Fatima's
It can be concluded from the above mentioned narration that:
1.Allah Almighty commanded His Messenger to abandon Khadijah a
period of time so that his longing and wanting her increased. 2. He (S) performed more worship so as to achieve a higher level of
spirituality and sacredness, as a result of being in constant contact
3.He (S) broke his fast on the pure heavenly gift, which was quickly
transformed into sperm because of its delicateness. 4. The sperm was produced from eating a delicate heavenly food that
differs from material nutrition's. 5. The Prophet (S) immediately proceeded to Khadijah’s house in
order to transfer the sperm to her womb after the previously mentioned
This narration was mentioned by the following Sunni scholars with
minor variations between some of their accounts of it:
1.Khawarazmi in his book Maqtal al- Hussain p. 63, 68. 2. Dhahabi in al-Etedal v.2, p. 26. 3. Talkhees al-Mustadrak v. 3, p. 156. 4. Asqalani in Lisan al-Mizan v. 4, p. 36. In addition, there are various traditions with minor verbal differences
and the same fundamental meaning that Fatima Zahra (A) was
created from a sperm produced from heavenly food.
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