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just entered to find their mother no

longer alive, “Go to your father Ali and inform him about your

Hasan and Husayn stepped out of their house calling, “O

Muhammad! O Ahmad! Today your death has become more

severe upon us as our mother has (just) died!”

They entered the masjid and found their father, Ali, and

unconscious. Water was sprinkled on his face and when he

regained consciousness, he called out it a grievous voice saying,

“How should I console myself, O daughter of Muhammad! I

found comfort in you while you were alive, but now where

That evening, Ali prepared the body to be buried - only

allowing the close family members and some women of

After shrouding the body, Imam Ali called out, “O Umme

Kulthum! O Zaynab! O Sakinah! O Fidhdhah! O Hasan and

O Husayn! Come and behold your mother for the time of

It is quoted in the book, Rawdhat al-Wa’izin, that when

darkness covered the city of Medina and the people were deep

in sleep, Imam Ali along with Hasan, Husayn, Ammar ibn

Yasir, Miqdad ibn Aswad, Aqil ibn Abi Talib, Zubayr ibn al-

Awwam, Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, Salman al-Farisi, Buraydah

and a few other men brought out the coffin of Fatima al-

Zahra. They recited the final prayers upon her and buried her

in the middle of the night. Imam Ali proceeded to built seven

more graves around the real grave so that her actual place of

perhaps one of the most grievous is that despite being the

only daughter of the Prophet of Islam and the Leader of the

Women of the World ,till this day ,her grave remains

She is a woman who ,just as we read in her visitation

)ziyarah ,(is one whose worth is shrouded in secrecy and

can never be understated. It is one of the foundational events in

the history of Islam through which we can better under the past,

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Commemorating the event known as Ayaam-e Fatimiyya –

literally the days of Fatima is a time in which we remember

the tragic martyrdom of the only daughter of Prophet