The word · History
فَاطِمَة الزَّهْرَاء
Fatimah
The Prophet's youngest daughter, wife of Ali and mother of Hasan and Husayn.
Also written · Fatima · Fatimah az-Zahra · Fatima Zahra · Fatimah bint Muhammad · Fatma · Fatema · Fatimah al-Zahra · Sayyidah Fatimah · Bibi Fatima · Fatimah tuz Zahra · Hazrat Fatima
The meaning
What Fatimah means in Islam
She lived plainly; the famous exchange in which she asked her father for a servant and was taught words of remembrance instead is well known. He said she was a part of him, and that whoever angers her angers him. In his final illness he whispered something that made her weep and then something that made her smile: that he was dying, and that she would be the first of his household to follow him. She died about six months later, in her twenties.
Evidence · Sunnah · Established in the authentic Sunnah
Read beside it
Rooms that name it
- She asked for a servant and was taught a formulaA Light · Fatimah and Ali · Madinah
- Surah At-TalaqSurah 65 · The Divorce
Words that sit beside it
- Ali ibn Abi TalibThe Prophet's cousin and son in law, raised by him, and the fourth caliph.عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِب
- Ahl al-BaytThe Prophet's household, honoured by all Muslims, though the schools draw its boundary differently.أَهْلُ البَيْت
- Hasan ibn AliThe Prophet's elder grandson, who gave up the caliphate to stop a war between Muslims.الحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيّ
- Husayn ibn AliThe Prophet's younger grandson, killed at Karbala in the sixty first year of the Hijrah.الحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيّ
- KhadijahThe Prophet's first wife and the first person of all to believe in him.خَدِيجَة بِنْت خُوَيْلِد
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- Bay'at al-AqabahTwo secret pledges by men of Madinah that opened the way for the Hijrah.بَيْعَةُ العَقَبَة
- Hijri CalendarThe Muslim lunar calendar, counting years from the Hijrah and running about eleven days shorter than the solar year.التَّقْوِيمُ الهِجْرِيّ
- JahiliyyahThe age of ignorance in Arabia before Islam, and any conduct that still belongs to it.الجَاهِلِيَّة
- MakkahThe valley city holding the Ka'bah, where the Prophet was born and revelation began.مَكَّة
- SalafThe first three generations of Muslims: the Companions, the Followers, and those after them.السَّلَف