O Allah! Send your blessings to the head of your Messengers and
the
Last of your Prophets Muhammad ( saw ),
and his pure and cleansed progeny.
In memory of the Chief of the Women of Paradise
Hazrat Fatima Az Zahra ( as )
Imam Al Hassan Ibn Ali Al Askari reported that his father quoted Jabir Ibn Abdullah as saying : ' The Messenger of Allah, Peace be Upon him and his cleansed progeny, said : ' When Allah created Adam and Eve, they strutted through paradise and said : ' Who are better than we ? ' At that moment they noticed an image of a girl like they had never seen before; from this girl came an illuminating light so bright that it almost blinded the eyes.
They said : ' O Lord, what is this ? '
He answered : ' This is the Image of Fatima ( as ), the mistress
of your women descendants. '
Lisan Al Mizan Volume 3 page 346
Ibn Abbas said : ' Aisha entered the house while the Messenegr of
Allah was kissing Fatima ( as ), so she said : ' Do you love her,
O Messenger of Allah ? '
He replied : ' Indeed, by Allah if you knew the extent of my love for her, your love would increase for her. When I was in the forth heaven ... that I found these dates softer than butter, more pleasent than musk and sweeter than honey. So when I descended to earth, I came unto Khadija and she bore Fatima. Thus Fatima is a human huri, whenever I long for paradise I smell her.
Tareekhe Baghdad Volume 5 page 87 ( Al Khateeb Al Baghdadi )
Mizan Al Itidal page 63 ( Muhammad Ibn Ahmed Al Demashqain )
Al Mizan Volume 5 page 160 ( Asqalani )
Dhakhear al Uqbi page 43 ( Tabari )
Contributed by Br. Ali Abbas, abbas@seas.gwu.edu.