Fatima, the daughter of Imam Hassan al-Mujtaba (PBUH)

Her teknonym (Kunya) was Umm Abdullah and her mother was a bondwoman. Regarding her glory, it would be enough to say that she is the mother of the fifth Imam, Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (PBUH). There have been many wonders wrought by this respected lady including the following story which deceased Kulayni has written in his honored book “Al-Kāfi”:

Imam Muhammad al-Baqir said: My mother was sitting next to a wall. Suddenly the wall started to shake with high sound and began to fall down. The great lady pointed to wall with hand and said:

“Don`t fall down, swear to Mustafa (the Prophet), that God doesn`t grant permission to you to fall down.”

The wall suspended between the earth and the heavens until my mother went away. My father granted 100 Dinars for charity for my mother’s health.

What Imam Sadiq (PBUH) says about the daughter of Imam Hassan al-Mujtaba (PBUH) shows her degree and her respect well. Imam Sadiq (PBUH) says:

Fatima was a truthful lady and there was nobody like her in the family of Imam Hassan (PBUH).

On the day of Ashura, Fatima, with her husband, Imam Zain al-Abidin and her respected son, Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (PBUH) were present in Karbala and witnessed the family of Taha and Yasin suffering from many hardships.

On that day she saw how her uncle, Imam Husain (PBUH) and her brother, Qasim ibn al-Hassan (PBUH) were martyred. She tasted the bitter taste of captivity in company with the Prophet of God’s family (Ahl al-Bayt), especially his aunt, Zainab al-Kubra (PBUH) and her husband, Imam Zain al-Abidin, and she was taken around the different cities as a prisoner. She saw how her sick husband was captured, and the tents of the family of Sayyid al-Shuhada (master of martyrs) burned in the fire of oppression, and their property was pillaged.

Mahallati writes: No one knows what happened to that honored lady. On one hand she tolerated seeing her sick husband in chain sitting on a camel and her four-year-old child, Imam Mohammad al-Baqir (PBUH), who was hungry and thirsty while she was in need of a piece of clothing by which she could cover herself from strangers, and on the other hand she got tortured by looking at the heads of her relatives on spears.

Translated by, Ms. Ebrahimi