Ibn Asaker mentioned in At-Tarikh al-Kabir v.

Ibn Asaker mentioned in At-Tarikh al-Kabir v.1, p.391, on the

account of Anas Ibn Malik that Umme Salim said: "Fatima (may Allah

be pleased with her) has never menstruated nor discharged childbed

did not menstruate, and when she gave birth to a child, she would

immediately become purified from childbed confinement so as not to

never discharged blood during her childbed confinement; nor does she

"When Fatima gave birth to Al-Hassan, she did not bleed; she also

does not bleed during periods of menstruation. (When I informed the

Prophet of this) he said: `Do you not know that my daughter is pure

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and chaste; she does not discharge blood as a result of childbirth or

Sadiq (A) as saying: 'Allah, the Exalted, forbade Ali (A) from marrying

women while Fatima was still alive."

Abu Basir exclaimed: "Why was that?"

The Imam replied: "Because she was pure and does not menstruate."

Sheikh Majlisi commented on this narration by the following: "This

narration means either. First: Because Fatima did not menstruate, Ali

(A) had no reason to marry another woman. So Allah forbade him to

marry other women in observance of her sanctity. Or, Second: Her

eminence disallowed him from marrying another woman; where as this

particularity of hers is part of this eminence."

Fatima's exaltation from encountering menstrual or childbed blood,