By Allah if you do not let him go...

By Allah if you do not let him go, I

will uncover my head, rip my shirt, and go to my Father's tomb and cry

So she (A) took Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein's hands and proceeded

When Imam Ali (A) saw the seriousness of the situation, he

immediately interfered and said to Salman:

"Prevent Muhammad's daughter (from reaching her father's grave) for

surely I can see the outskirts of Medina being sunk into the earth."

Salman later said: "I was near Lady Fatima when, by Allah, I saw the

foundations of the Mosque's walls being elevated up to a point that

had a man wanted to go from under them, he would have been able to

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`My Mistress, surely Allah, the Exalted, sent your father to be mercy,

thus do not become the cause of His wrath. "'

These noble stands of Fatima, forced Abu Bakr and Umar to release

Ali (A); Fatima (A) returned home after setting the most honorable

house with orders to compel Ali and his friends to come and pledge

allegiance to him. If they could not be persuaded by fair means, Umar

was going to set the house on fire. When Fatima asked him what he

meant, he told her that he would certainly burn the house down unless

house. Imam Ali, who was accompanied by Abbas and Zubair,

reproached Umar's party saying: "O you Muhajirs! You claim the

succession to the Prophet of Allah preferring your priority in Islam and

your kinship, to him before the Ansars. Now I put forward the same

arguments in preference to you. Am I not the first who believed in the

Prophet before any of you embraced his faith? Am I not the nearest in

Prophet's authority from his house to your own."

Standing behind the door, Fatima (A) reproachfully addressed the

raiding people thus: "O people! You left behind the Prophet's dead

body to us and proceeded to wring out the Caliphate for yourselves,