Fatimah

Daughter of Muhammad (c. 605–632)

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Lived 604–632, aged 28

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604–632
Aged 28

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Updated 2026-08-31

Daughter of Muhammad, wife of Ali, mother of Hasan and Husayn — the sole line through which the Prophet's family endures. Her refusal to recognize the first caliph, her death six months later, and her secret burial fractured early Islam into the divide that still shapes it.

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Born between 605 and 615 CE to Muhammad and Khadija, Fatima married Ali, who would become the fourth Rashidun caliph and first Shia imam. She bore two sons, Hasan and Husayn, ensuring the survival of Muhammad's lineage. When her father died in 632, Fatima and Ali rejected Abu Bakr's caliphate, insisting Ali was the rightful successor. She died within six months — Sunni tradition says from grief, Shia accounts say from injuries sustained in a raid on her house ordered by Abu Bakr to force Ali's submission. Her dying wish, that the caliph not attend, was honored: she was buried in secrecy at nig…

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First thy neighbour, and there after your own house.

— Fascinating Discourses of the 14 Infallibles.

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Oh Muslims! Is my inheritance usurped? Oh son of Abu Quhafa (Abu Bakr), is it in the Book of Allah that you inherit your father and I do not inherit my father?

— Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.29, p. 216 ; al-Tabarsi, al-Ihtijāj, vol.1, p. 132-141.

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