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The First Family: The Beautiful Marriage of Ali and Fatima
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The First Family: The Beautiful Marriage of Ali and Fatima
Both Ali and Fatima were raised by the beloved Prophet ﷺ and had a special place in his heart. They were married by the Prophet ﷺ then counseled by him. Through their blessed marriage, a community came together and a community remains inspired. They faced obstacles that we all face in our marriage but by the guidance of Allah, the advice of the Prophet ﷺ, and the faith in their hearts, they were able to pull through and leave behind one of the greatest examples of a marriage ever to exist. And in studying this blessed family, we get to see our Prophet ﷺ in a new light: as a loving father, grandfather, and father in law.
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We're continuing now in the series and these next two are crucial because what I really
wanted to do is to as much as possible get into the house of the Prophet ﷺ and really understand the dynamics of that household and how things are forming, especially in
the early days of Islam. And so as I was putting together all of these notes and getting into these small narrations where you often get these snapshots into the lives. And you know
someone asked last week a very important question. When Ali is talking about being in the household of the Prophet ﷺ and being the only one to sort of witness the qiyam, witness the
night prayer of the Prophet ﷺ and Khadijah, where is Zayd, where are the other children, what's happening here? And Allah knows best. We can only take what we can take from the
narrations themselves. Of course the way that families were raised back then, where kids were sleeping, aunts, uncles, it's a village type feel, right? Allah knows best. But hopefully
what we can do through the series is start to inshallah take these isolated snapshots and then go one by one and start to see the trajectory through the eyes of that person
that enters very early in into this story, this magnificent story of the Prophet ﷺ. And then through that, to be very honest with you, you're not just gaining an appreciation
for each one of these sabihoon, each one of these firsts. But really each and every single one of these stories makes you fall in love with the Prophet ﷺ all over again. Because one of the things that fascinates me is how he was able to make all of these people feel
so special. You know when you read the biographies of the companions, sometimes you really think like this person is the most important person in the story and then you read the next story.
And that's the ability of the Prophet ﷺ to treat his family and his companions in a certain way that he wasn't just ignoring them and then focusing on this person here
and this person there. However, the actual family of the Prophet ﷺ, if he treated his companions this way, imagine what it was like to actually be his blood. Imagine what it
was like to actually be in his household and to be treated in a certain way. And so each one of these is going to give us a different perspective, but these next two in particular,
really building off of last week's where we talked about Ali, will give us a very special look at the life of the Prophet ﷺ and at the household of the Prophet ﷺ, at this
family of the Prophet ﷺ. So before we get into the marriage of Ali and Fatima, quick recap of Ali and then let's bring Fatima into the story and then talk about these two coming
together. So with Ali, we said his mother's name was what? I'm going to test y'all's knowledge. Fatima. So we said there were a lot of Fatimas, right? There were a lot of
Hinds and there were a lot of Fatimas. Those are the two names that you constantly see popping up. A lot of people named Hinds, a lot of people named Fatima. So Fatima bint
what? What is his mother's full name? Fatima bint Asad. And the way you can remember that is that we said she actually named him first Asad, after her father, which means lion.
Okay? Fatima bint Asad. And we said that she was the first what? She was a first herself.
Does anyone remember? The first, not Qurayshi Muslim, the first Hashemi woman to accept
Islam. Hashem was the tribe of the Prophet ﷺ, Banu Hashem. So she was the first woman who was a Hashemite from the actual family of the Prophet ﷺ, from his tribe, to accept
Islam and we said that she was about the 11th person, the 10th or the 11th person to enter into Islam when you look into the order. Also another mother-like figure to the Prophet
ﷺ. There's Umm Ayman and then there's Fatima bint Asad who raises the Prophet ﷺ as a motherly figure from the age of 6 to 25, accepted Islam very early on, made the migration to
Abyssinia, lived through the boycott, made the migration to Medina, went through all the hardships alongside the Prophet ﷺ. And Ali was born about, as we said, 10 years
before prophethood, so about the year 600, exactly between 600-602 he was born and he supports the Prophet ﷺ right away. We talked about how the Prophet ﷺ brought Ali radi
Allahu anhu into the house. He told his uncle al-Abbas, let's go to Abu Talib and help him out with his poverty. So let's take two of his children and raise them ourselves so that
Abu Talib could deal with the poverty in his household. The Messenger of Allah goes with al-Abbas and they take Ja'far, the Prophet ﷺ walks up to Ali and grabs him, al-Abbas
walks up to Ja'far and he takes him and both of them would raise those two until they reached their adulthood. And we also said that one of the miracles is that Khadija did not breastfeed
Ali which would have made him haram for Fatima, which would have made him like a son, effectively a son to Khadija had she breastfed him. But for whatever reason, it's the mercy of Allah
to Ali radi Allahu anhu and the wisdom of Allah and how that would play out, she never actually fed Ali radi Allahu ta'ala anhu though he was of that age and though it was natural
for a child to be fed by a mother that had flowing milk in those days. So that's Ali radi Allahu anhu, he comes into the house as we said, accepts Islam right away and that
sight of the Prophet ﷺ, Khadija and Ali praying in front of the Ka'bah, praying qiyam all alone, there was something there. Now, let's talk about Fatima radi Allahu ta'ala
anhu and how she comes into and her nickname, al-Habibatu bint al-Habib, the beloved one, the daughter of the beloved one. May Allah be pleased with her and send his peace and
blessings upon her father and her mother. She was born, according to most historians,
she was actually born in the first year of prophethood. So according to many of the scholars like Ibn Abdul Barr al-Hakim, Ibn Hajar, she was born the year that the Prophet ﷺ received
revelation. So think about her birth, which would mean that when Khadija radi Allahu anhu was running up and down Hira to help the Prophet ﷺ going through that stress, she could have
been pregnant with her fifth or sixth child because there's dispute about whether Abdullah is older or younger than Fatima or she would have been an infant. So according to some,
she was born either right before prophethood, so she was literally a baby when the Prophet ﷺ received revelation, or she was born right after the Prophet ﷺ received revelation
in that very first year. That's a special child, right? Just the circumstances of her birth to come in during that time period of the Prophet's ﷺ life where he just received
revelation and this is a gift that Allah gives to them is special in and of itself. So she was the last of the Prophet's ﷺ daughter and I mentioned I believe a narration when
we were talking about Khadija radi Allahu anhu that the way that the naming worked was how? The Prophet ﷺ named the boys, Khadija named the girls. And so Khadija named her
Fatima. Who can guess why? Because guess what Khadija's mom's name was? Fatima. So her
mother was Fatima bin Zaidah, so Khadija named her after her mother radi Allahu ta'ala anhu and the word Fatima has an interesting meaning to it. So we said Khadija means what? I'm
going to keep on quizzing you guys on the past halaqa so you can get it in insha'Allah. We said Khadija means what? Does anyone remember what the name Khadija means? See Wanda's going
through her notes. Where are you guys at? Where's everyone? Premature. Khadija means premature. So and it's a very, there's no one else named Khadija. Alright so the indication
is that she was born very early for her to be given the name Khadija, premature. Fatima comes from the term Fatim which is a baby that is full term and weaned. It's like the
opposite, it's really interesting. Khadija is premature, Fatima is full term and weaned. And you know it's really, so some of the scholars, and really you're not really looking at Islamic scholars here, you're looking at, I was reading what some of the scholars of language said.
They said that it could be that the Arabs used this name to indicate a very healthy girl. That a girl was healthy, full, obviously, or you're naming after another Fatima, but
that's the origin of it, right? Full term, weaned, went through the whole process of being a baby, but of course as we said in the case of Fatima, it's after the mother
of Khadija. And Abu Huraira radiyaAllahu anhu says something very beautiful. He said that verily Allah has weaned Fatima and her offspring off from fire, from the fire of Jahannam,
from her birth. So Allah has weaned her and her children off of that, that she would not touch it or drink from any of its punishment. So let's go through the children of the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wasalam right quick and Khadija radiyaAllahu anhu. First child is who? You guys are going to make this halaqa so much longer. So if you know the answer, I suggest
that you say it. Or if you think you're close, you say it. The first one is actually Qasim, right? Because I want you to get the full picture. Qasim was born around 12 years before
prophethood and he lived for about three years. So you know, we know that the sons of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam died right away, but Qasim actually lived about three
years. So this was a very painful, it's their first child and died of some illness in the hands of Khadija and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. Zainab, the oldest daughter
of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, was born about 599, a year after Qasim. And then there is Ruqayya, who was born about two years after that, year 601. And then there's Um
Kulthum, who some scholars say is less than a year younger than Ruqayya. So Um Kulthum is immediate after Ruqayya. And then there is Fatima, and we said Fatima was born around
the year 610, when the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam received revelation. And then there's Abdullah, who died at birth, okay, or very close to birth. And then there's the last son of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, who was born of course in Medina, the only
son not from Khadija, but from Marya, and his name was? Ibrahim. Ibrahim, very good. So those are the seven children of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. So Khadija is the
only child that actually grew up in Islam, that was born and raised in Islam, whereas the others were not. What's going on in the household of the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam at the time? Ruqayya and Um Kulthum were both engaged when the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam received revelation. Does anyone know who they were engaged to? The children,
the two sons of Abu Lahab. That becomes very difficult. The man who cursed the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, who stopped him and humiliated him in public, his uncle, Abu
Lahab, who humiliated him, and then Ali radhiallahu anhu rose to his defense, that young child. Both of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam's daughters were engaged to Utbah and Utaiba,
the children of Abu Lahab. Utbah and Utaiba. Engaged, now engagements at that time of course would take place very early on. These marriages were arranged very early on. So Ruqayya was only about seven, Um Kulthum was about six. When you say engaged, that just means that
it's understood that when they come of age, they'll be married. They'll be married to these people. Zaynab was already married and her husband's name, anyone know? Sera tests.
Al-As ibn Rabi'a. So Zaynab, the oldest, is married to Al-As ibn Rabi'a. Ruqayya is engaged to Utbah ibn Abu Lahab. Um Kulthum is engaged to Utaiba ibn Abu Lahab. And you just have
now Fatima radhiallahu ta'ala anhu. When Fatima was born, the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, and again it could be the timing of it. I mean that could have a lot to do with it.
The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam immediately looked at her in a different way, absolutely fell in love with this baby girl of his. And it's so much so that when Allah revealed,
wa-andhir ashirataka al-aqrabeen, warn your closest relatives, call out to your closest relatives and warn your closest relatives. The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam stood
up and he only called two people by name. He said, Ya Safiyya bint Abdul Muttalib. Safiyya was the mother of Az-Zubair. Safiyya is the mother of Az-Zubair, the aunt of the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wasalam. She was very close. Ya Safiyya bint Abdul Muttalib. Ya Fatima bint Rasulallah. Oh Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, sal
ni ma shi'ti min maali. Ask me anything that you want of my wealth, anything that you want of my property. La amliku lakum min Allahi shay'a. I cannot testify on your behalf or
I cannot do anything for you with God on the Day of Judgment. What that means is that you know how much I love you, my closest. And Ibn Hajar says the fact that the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wasalam named those two was for a reason. Safiyya was his favorite aunt, close to him. Abul Khala, she's a special aunt to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. And Fatima was this
unbelievably beloved child to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. So he's saying even you two, and that's a message to everyone else, you have a responsibility before Allah that is an individual responsibility and it is not something that can be bought with money.
I can't protect you. You have to do your part and answer the call of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that's why when the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam was even asked, if you remember the 40 hadith on social justice and we talked about this narration where there was a rich
woman, a powerful woman that stole. And they asked Usama ibn Uzayr to go talk to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam and see if he can let it go because she's a very powerful woman and it's not right to punish someone who's so powerful. And the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam said even if Fatima was to steal, she would be punished. There's no favoritism here because you know where Fatima is to me. The fact that I would even punish Fatima, I'm not going to let someone go because, or not hold someone accountable because they're
from some powerful class or because they belong to something that is there. So there's some elements now that come into the household of the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam later on. Fast forward to the death of Khadija radhiallahu anha. The mother of
Fatima radhiallahu anha, the wife of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. When Khadija passed away, she was, and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam would be attacked because remember
Khadija died around the same time, only three days apart according to some narrations from Abu Talib. So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam would be viciously attacked in public at this point now. He had no physical protection on the outside and when the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wasalam would come home covered in blood, which by the way according to some of the scholars of Sira there were eight times that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam was publicly beaten. Eight times. So we know of Taif and we know, but eight times that
something was thrown on him or he was punched or he was hit. So when the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam is in public he's fair game. When he comes home wounded, it's Fatima radhiallahu
anha that takes the role of playing the role that Khadija radhiallahu anha used to play. She's the one that really steps in and that starts to protect the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam. Al-Hassan radhiallahu anhu says that Fatima would be the one to clean the wounds of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. And how old was she? About ten years old. Think
about that burden. Ten year old girl walking up to her father salallahu alaihi wasalam having to clean up his wounds and comfort him when Khadija radhiallahu anha was missing. And everyone knew Fatima's closeness to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. A ten year
old girl. And at the age of ten, what was she nicknamed? Ummu Abiha. The mother of her father. Because of the hanan, the love and the compassion she would show to her father
when she would see the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam struck, Ummu Abiha. It's like she was another mother to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. And one of the most painful narrations, the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam hated to see her in pain. Absolutely hated to see her in pain because he knew this is a young girl that's been exposed. She didn't
see the days of comfort and ease. Which were really, you know, right before Prophethood where the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam was at the max of his wealth, of his credibility
in society. She didn't have that childhood. Her childhood was all oppression. Her childhood was witnessing her father rejected, beaten, her mother becoming frail, dying due to the
boycott. She witnessed all the hardship. And one of the most painful narrations, and this was the peak of humiliation of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, was that because now he's fair game and they'd kick him in public, punch him in public, humiliate him,
spit at him in public. Abu Jahl challenged Uqba ibn Abi Mu'it. Uqba ibn Abi Mu'it, who was a powerful man in Mecca. And these are now the elites playing games with the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wasalam at this point. Abu Talib's not here. We're not showing him any regard whatsoever. And the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam has been rejected from Ta'if. He doesn't have anyone to protect him. Abu Jahl tells, he challenges Uqba ibn Abi Mu'it.
He says, you really want to humiliate him? He said, next time he comes to the Ka'bah, because the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam would still walk to the Ka'bah and pray, even as they'd kick him, even as they'd spit on him. He'd still go and pray by himself. He
doesn't have Khadijah radiyaAllahu anha with him anymore. He says to Uqba ibn Abi Mu'it, why don't you take the insides of a camel, slaughter a camel and take all of its guts,
all of its intestines, all of its nastiness, collect them, and the next time the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam is praying in front of the Ka'bah, go dump them on his back. This
is just, you know, complete humiliation, right? Utter humiliation. So Uqba ibn Abi Mu'it, of course he says yes. And Uqba ibn Abi Mu'it was a huge man, the size of Abu Jahl and Umar,
big man. And so he collected all of that filth and they watched the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, waited for him to go into Sajdah, into prostration, and then he came and he dumped it all on the back of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. And it was so heavy on the
back of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam that it caused his body to collapse. So it wasn't like just filth, right? Complete humiliation. Ibn Mas'ud radiyaAllahu anhu, he narrates this incident because Ibn Mas'ud was someone that was almost beaten to death already next
to the Ka'bah. We'll talk about him at some point. He was a small man, didn't have a tribe,
but no religion.失礼致う Didn't have any protection. So he goes to the house of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam to let the household know what had happened. The only one he finds, 10 year old girl Fatima
radiyaAllahu anhu, and tells Fatima that your father, what's happening to her father, that your father's been crushed by these camel guts, he's being humiliated, everyone's laughing
at him, mocking him. And Fatima radiyaAllahu anhu comes running out of her house to the
haram, goes to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, crying so heavily, and scratching the guts off of the back of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. Think of that scene. This
is the daughter of the woman that held him when he received revelation. And think about how painful it was for the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. You never want to see your
children see you like that. This is the next level of humiliation. So, and this is a long narration, the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, this was one of the only times he actually
prayed against his people. Meaning he prayed against Abu Jahl, made dua against him. It's not often that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam makes dua against an oppressor. Almost
always his prayers are for them. But he actually makes dua against Abu Jahl bin Aqba bin Abi Mu'it in that moment. He sees the pain of Fatima radiyaAllahu anhu. He comforts her,
and listen to what he says. He says, la tabki, don't cry. Inna Allaha nasirun abaki. God will support your father. Allah will give victory to your father. Don't cry. Allah will
give victory to your father. And it didn't calm her tears. So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, that's when he raised his hands and he prayed against Abu Jahl and Aqba bin Abi
Mu'it and those that had humiliated the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam in front of his father. Another narration after Khadija had died, where the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam
sees Fatima radiyaAllahu anhu again. This is a girl that's been through what no girl should have to go through. Right? That deeply loves her father, witnessed that pain, and
he says to her, kayfa tajidinaki ya abunayyati? How are you, oh my daughter? And she says,
inni lawaj'a, I'm in pain, wa inna hu layazidu ma bi, anna ma li ta'amun akulahu. Suddenly what's increasing my pain even, is we don't even have food to eat. Right? The Prophet
salallahu alaihi wasalam did not even have food. Right? He goes days and nights hungry, and she's saying we don't have food so I'm in emotional pain, and I'm in physical pain.
So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam responds and he says, oh my daughter, ala tardeen, annaki sayyidatu nisa'il alameen? He said, oh my beautiful daughter, aren't you pleased
that you are the master of all women? You are the leader of all women, the women of all the world? Look at the knowledge, understanding, adab of this young girl, Fatima radiyaAllahu
anha. She says, ya abati, fa ayna Maryam ibnat Imran? She said, oh my father, but then where is Mary, the mother of Jesus? What about Maryam? How could I be the leader of the women of the world? What about Maryam? So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said, tilka sayyidatu
nisa'i alameen? Fa ala hadha Maryamu khayru nisa'il ummatil maadiya, wa khadijatu khayru nisa'il ummatil ka'ina. He said that she was the leader of the women of her time, and in
that sense Maryam was the best woman of her times, and Khadija was the best woman of her times. So there's a difference between sayyida and khayru. The best woman of all time is
Maryam, and the best woman of her time is your mother Khadija. And Fatima radiyaAllahu anha is one of those who perfected her faith. So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam mentioned
four women who perfected their faith, had perfect faith, and that was Maryam, Asiya, Khadija, Fatima. So Fatima and her mother, imagine two women that had perfect iman, that
had perfect faith. And some of the scholars, they said why Fatima? Why does she have perfect faith and not the other daughters of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam? They were surely beloved to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, but why Fatima radiyaAllahu anha? And some
of the scholars, they said number one, this is a gift from Allah that Allah gives to people. This is Fatima would exert herself in worship and you'll see her in her lifetime. She resembles the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam more than any other human being. We'll talk about
that. No one resembles the Prophet like Fatima. She was a copy of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, and that translated also into her nobility, her worship, and did not do so.
Some of them said because she was born into the days of hardship, and as opposed to her sister, she grew up watching her father tortured and she was the one playing the role of Khadija
supporting the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. She spent three years of her childhood in the boycott. She never saw the days of wealth like the other children of the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wasalam. She made the hijrah with her father. So she actually migrated with the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam to Medina at the age of 13 years old. She migrated with
her sister Umm Kulthum, the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, Saudah bint Zam'a, Aisha radiyallahu ta'ala anha, and Aisha's mother, Umrumman, which is the wife of Abu Bakr. May
Allah be pleased with them all. So they all migrated to Medina together. So Fatima is attached to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam throughout his most difficult days. She is
a woman who perfects her faith. I mentioned the qualities, the names. Does anyone remember
from Khutbah what were her other two names? Fatima al-Zahra, which means the radiant face.
She had a radiant face like her father. Fatima radiyallahu anha, when you looked at her face, it was just full of nur, full of light, just like the face of the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam. And also, there's one more, al-Batool. Someone was listening to my Khutbah, alhamdulillah. Which means the one who's turned back to Allah, speaks to her worship, turned back to God.
So speaks to her worship, speaks to her zuhud, her asceticism, and her sharaf, her nobility.
So anyway, they get to Medina, and now we start to see how does Ali and Fatima story happen. By the time they migrated, Ali was too old to live in the house of the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wasalam at that point. Because he'd become old enough to where he was of age, and so he was separated from Fatima, even though he grew up with Fatima. And he was close to Fatima in age, so they grew up together. But Ali radiyallahu anhu had moved
on. And that's why when they got to Medina, the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam paired him off with Sahl ibn Hunaif as a brother. And the home of Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, a man by the name of Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, that's where all the young single guys stayed in
Khutbah. So when they made hijrah, all the young singles went to the house of Kulthum ibn al-Hadim radiyallahu ta'ala anhu. So when the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam got to Medina at that point, again Ali radiyallahu anhu has grown. He lives outside of the house
of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. As for Fatima radiyallahu anhu, she still lives in the house of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. So when they're building the house in Medina, she's there. She's right there with the Messenger salallahu alaihi wasalam. And what was the love of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam like for Fatima? It was to
a point that it used to make the others in the family of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam a little jealous. Okay, and Ali radiyallahu anhu was one of them. Usam ibn Zayd radiyallahu
anhu, he says that one day I was sitting, so this is now before Ali marries Fatima. We were in Medina and Ali and al-Abbas sought permission, the uncle of the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wasalam, and Ali sought permission to enter. So they came in and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam asked Usama, do you know why they're coming at this time? He said
no. So they came in and they sat and they said to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam that we've come to you to ask you who is the most beloved of your family to you? We were
having a debate, trying to figure out who do you love most from your family. Now there's a similar narration where Amr ibn al-As asked the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, man ahabbu al-nasi ilayk, who's the most beloved of people to you? And he said Aisha, his wife.
And then he said Abu Bakr, Abuha, and then Umar. Here it's like very specific, like from the family. So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, he said ahabbu ahli ilayya Fatima.
He said the most beloved of my family to me is Fatima, my daughter. It was really interesting because in the other narration when he responded to Amr, Amr said no no I mean from the men. Like it was weird for you to say that you loved your wife and you loved your daughter
that much, right? So they had a similar understanding, he said ya Rasulallah we're not talking about that, we're talking about from the men. We get you love your daughter Fatima, there's no comparison to her. And in this narration the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam sees
Usama ibn Zaid and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam says ahabbu ahli ilayya man qad an'am Allahu alayhi wa an'amtu alayhi Usama ibn Zaid. He said well the most beloved of the
young men in my family is the one whom Allah favoured and I have favoured, Usama ibn Zaid, who was the son of the adopted son of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. Who was
Usama's mother? See if someone can catch it. We talked about her. Umm Ayman, good. So Usama ibn Zaid. So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam was talking about Usama ibn Zaid and then the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said thumma Ali ibn Abi Talib, then he said
thumma Ali ibn Abi Talib. So al-Abbas said to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, ja'alta ammak akhirahum, you made your uncle the last of them? And he talked about Fatima and then Usama and then Ali and then you left me out. I'm your uncle. So the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam said li'anna Ali qad sabaka qabil hijrah. He said Ali made hijrah before you. Ali migrated before you. It took al-Abbas some time to embrace Islam and to come. So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said that. What does this mean now? What are the
implications? Here's some beautiful narrations about what this would look like in Medina. Thuban radhiallahu anhu, he narrates, he said when the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam would leave Medina, the last person he would sit with is Fatima. And when he returned,
the first person he would sit with was Fatima. Anytime the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam left Medina, the last person he's going to sit with is his daughter Fatima. The first person he's going to sit with when he comes back is his daughter Fatima. Abu Tha'laba
gets more specific. He says when the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam used to go on a journey or a battle, the first thing the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam would do is he'd go to the
masjid, pray two rak'ahs, then he would go to the house of Fatima and he'd take his time. So it's not like he'd just kind of go say salamu alaikum. This is after Fatima would move on obviously and get married. But it just shows you the love and the preference.
And then he would visit his spouse salallahu alaihi wasalam. So before he would even go to his azwaj, before he would even go to his wives, he'd go to his daughter Fatima radhiallahu ta'ala anha. The last person to see before traveling, the first person to see when he
got back, even when she got married. That was the place of Fatima radhiallahu ta'ala anha. And what a father the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam is. What a lesson in fatherhood.
Just like everything else, he sets the standard. Here's what Aisha radhiallahu anha says about Fatima and the relationship with the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. She says,
ma ra'aytu ahadan ashbaha samtan wala dallan wala hadyan bi rasoolillahi salallahu alaihi wasalam fi qiyamihi wa qa'oodihi min Fatima bint rasoolillahi.
She said, I've never seen a person who resembled the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam in his look, in his walk, in his guidance, in his character, in everything that he did. Even in his standing up and sitting down. The way the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam would
sit down and the way he'd stand up. Fatima looked exactly like him. She acted exactly like him. She was a copy of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. And then Aisha says, wa kanath
idha dakhala alayhi qama ilayha. When she would enter into a room, no matter what the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam was in the middle of, he would stand up for her. Fa qabbalaha. And then he'd walk up to her and he'd kiss her on the forehead. And then he would hold
her hand. Fa ajlasaha fee majlisihi. And the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam would sit her down where he was sitting. Look at this honor. And she says about Fatima radhiallahu
anha, she says, wa kanath idha dakhala alayhi. And when the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam would enter upon any gathering or any setting that she was in, she would rush. Qamat min
majlisiha. She would stand up, she'd rush to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. Qabbalatuh. She'd kiss him on the forehead. She'd hold the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam's hand. Ajlasatuh fee majlisiha. She'd sit him down in the chair or where she was sitting. And
she adds one thing, wa kanath tuqabbilu yadayhi. She would kiss both of his hands. Right? That's just a special relationship that everyone sees. You don't interfere with that relationship.
You admire it. You love it. And this was a society where people used to bury their daughters alive. Think about that, right? Where Allah talks about the way they treated their daughters
that when they would get the news that they had a daughter or a girl, you would see their faces darkened. And this is in that society that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam
is honoring his daughter that way? What a father. Right? And you can't, I can't think of any father that does that for his daughter to that extent. Right? And that's a lesson
for all of us especially. SubhanAllah, you know, part of that, part of that was certainly the loyalty of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. The same way with Khadija that he
has to honor her because Khadija did things for him that no one else did. Fatima did things for the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam that no one else did. And the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wasalam honored that to a great extent. So anyway, Ali and Fatima grew up together. Now let's get to the marriage. When does the marriage take place? The Battle of Badr just
took place. They're in Medina. There was a great incident of sadness, of tragedy that happened on the day of Badr. Does anyone know what it was? Anybody? They called it the day
of great joy and the day of great sadness. Because it was the victory of the Battle of Badr but there was a day of great sadness too. The death of Ruqayya, the daughter of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. Ruqayya got sick before Badr and that's why Uthman
ibn Affan did not go to the Battle of Badr. He stayed back and he took care of Ruqayya. He took permission from the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam to take care of Ruqayya. And Ruqayya died on the same day that Badr was won. So while the sahabah are celebrating
and this was a great victory from Allah, the news comes that the daughter of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam has died and that Uthman radiyaAllahu anhu was in great sadness. They were sad both for the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam and for Uthman because Uthman
was a very special and beloved person. What did the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam do after the death of Ruqayya? He married Umm Kulthum. Uthman radiyaAllahu anhu, the possessor
of two lights, married Umm Kulthum radiyaAllahu anhu, the next daughter of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. So at this point now, Zainab is still in Mecca. She's with al-Asib al-Rabiha.
Ruqayya was married to Uthman, actually went to Abyssinia with Uthman, passed away. Umm Kulthum has moved out from the house and lives with her husband Uthman radiyaAllahu anhu.
So Fatima is the last one in the household of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. Now can you imagine if you love the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam and you saw how much he loves
this girl and she is the female version of him. Can you imagine how many people wanted
to marry Fatima radiyaAllahu anhu? So at the top of that list, Abu Bakr and Umar both proposed for the hand of Fatima. Both of them came to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, first
Abu Bakr and then Umar and they asked for her hand. The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said, intadhir biha alqadai. He said just wait, give me some time. And then the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wasalam said she's young, meaning he had someone else in mind. When the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam turns away Abu Bakr and Umar, something's up. That
means he has someone else in mind for her. Because you're not going to turn away Abu Bakr and Umar unless there's something special planned. And of course Abu Bakr and Umar are closer to the age of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. So there's someone else that
the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam has his eye on. So how do we get Ali into the picture? One of the coolest things about this long narration is narrated by Al-Hassan. So it's
how I met your mother, narrating from Ali, Fatima, how my parents met or how they got
married. So Ali says that I thought about it, but I was like, he turned away Abu Bakr
and Umar, no way I have a chance. So whoever he's got his eye on, it's not me. Ali thought there's no way the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam was thinking about me. So the year
is right after Badr actually, so the year is 622 or 623. Ali, they're still young, Ali is about 23, Fatima is about 16 years old. They're still pretty young. Now marriage age
was much younger than 16. People would get married 10, 11, 12, 13 at that time. Children were different at the time. So Ali, he tells this narration, he says that I was sitting
in the household of someone from the family, so it was like his aunt or an uncle, one of the Hashemites. And he said that the family started to talk to Ali, he said, why don't
you go ask for the hand of Fatima? He said particularly there was an old female servant in the household. We don't know her name from the narration, but you can kind of get the picture. She said to Ali, you know I think the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam has his
eye on you. And Ali said, do you think he's going to marry his daughter to me if he turned away Abu Bakr and Umar? No way. So he said she kept on pushing me until finally I said
to her, do you think I have anything to get married with? I don't own anything, I'm poor. Remember we talked about the poverty of Ali. So even if I went to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, I don't even have enough for a mahr, for a dowry, for a gift, for a wedding.
I can't afford anything. How am I going to go to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam? She said, listen, if you go to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, he'll marry his
daughter to you. So maybe she had a hint or whatever it is, but she said he will do it. And then Ali radiya Allahu anhu says, Abu Bakr, Umar, and Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, Sa'd, one
of the chiefs in Medina, they all encouraged me to go ask for her hand. So meaning either the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam confided in Abu Bakr and Umar that he is the one, or
they just had a feeling like he's probably got his eye on you. So after all of these people tell him to go to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, he said finally I gathered
the courage to go to him to ask for her hand. So he said, I got to the house of the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wasalam, feeling. Confidence, I can do this. Imagine the pep talks to himself. He says I sat in front of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam and he said I completely went silent. I could not say a word.
And he says, Jalalatan wa haybatan ila Rasool Allah. Just out of the glory and the respect, the love of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. I couldn't say a word. So he says, I sat in front of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam and I stuttered a
few times, mumbled a few words, and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam was looking at me. So after some time, the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam says, ma jaa bika yaabna ammi?
What brought you to me, son of my uncle? And Ali radiyaAllahu anhu was so eloquent, one of the most eloquent men amongst the companions of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, he said, I tried to say a few words and I made
no sense whatsoever. And I was shaking, sweating, nervous, shivering. The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said, alaka bihaja? Do you need something? Are you okay? And he said that, I still couldn't say anything.
So he said, finally the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, he smiled at me and he said, la'alaka j'ittali taqtuba Fatima? Maybe you came to ask for Fatima's hand? He knows why he's there, right? So I'm going to make it easy for you.
La'alaka j'ittali taqtuba Fatima? He said, maybe you came to ask for Fatima's hand in marriage. So he said, I put my head down and I said, na'am ya Rasulallah, yes, O Messenger of Allah. He said, okay, good.
Do you have anything to, do you have a gift? Do you have a mahr? Laka bi mahr? Ali radhi allahu anhu said, I actually don't have a mahr. I don't have anything to get married with. So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam pointed to his dirhah, pointed to his shield.
He said, you've got that, right? He said, yeah. The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said, how much is it worth? He said, about four dirhams. Which is nothing, right? Four silver coins, four dirhams. Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said, go sell it and come back to me and bring that
as a mahr. That's good enough for a gift. Subhanallah. Now you see Fatima and then you see a whole community that is absolutely ecstatic to see
this marriage of these two people that are so beloved to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. So Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam then went to Fatima. Ali radhi allahu anhu, easiest proposal ever. Hardest and easiest ever, right?
He only had to say a total of like four words, walks out, and he got it, right? He was the one that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam had his eye on for Fatima. So he goes out.
Now the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam has to go to Fatima and ask Fatima if she wants to marry Ali. Fatima radhi allahu anhu wanted to marry Ali. But to have your father come and ask you, I mean the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam
coming to her and asking her, saying, you know, Ali radhi allahu anhu came and asked for your hand. Are you okay with it? Right? Fatima radhi allahu anhu turned red, completely overtaken by haya, by modesty, couldn't say a word.
The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam is dealing with two people that are not speaking and formulating this marriage, putting it all together, right? So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, he made sure, and this is where the fiqh ruling
actually that in marriage, if, you know, because the woman has to consent, right? That's one of the rulings, right? But if you ask her and you're very explicit and she doesn't want to actually say yes,
but she kind of indicates or she states, then that could, then that can suffice as her approval for the marriage, right? Because the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said, do you have any objection? And she couldn't say anything.
So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam took that, affirmed that her quietness was not because of rejection. He knows his daughter, but because of her modesty, her haya, she just didn't want to come out and say yes, right?
So and there's a very funny narration while they were discussing arrangements. So now the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam got Ali radiyallahu anhu, he got Fatima, and this is where the, I'm going to shatter your image of the Sahaba, physical image of the
Sahaba a little bit, alright? So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam was talking to Fatima radiyallahu anha about the marriage and Ali radiyallahu anhu was known to have a big stomach. Surprise surprise. Big man, right?
Ali radiyallahu anhu's biceps were the biggest biceps amongst the Sahaba. They said that if you put two hands around the bicep of Ali, you couldn't close your hands. But he also had a stomach.
And Fatima radiyallahu anha joked with the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, she says zawajtani li azeem al batin, you married me to the man with the big stomach? Right? So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam laughed and he said innahu la awwalu ashabi salaman
wa akhtaruhum ilman wa a'zamuhum hilman. Beautiful description. The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said he was the first of my companions to embrace Islam, the most of them in knowledge, akhtaruhum ilman wa a'zamuhum hilman. And he has great patience.
Hilm is forbearance, the way you treat people, right? Patience with people. So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam once took it as, even though it was a joke, he took it as an opportunity to praise him and to speak about his character.
So anyway, Ali radiyallahu anhu says I went to the marketplace and I'm selling my dir'a. The only thing I own is my shield and I'm selling my dir'a. He says so Uthman radiyallahu anhu saw me in the marketplace for sale on my shield that
I'm selling my dir'a. Uthman is about to be his brother-in-law, right? Uthman is married to Ruqayya and then Umm Kuthum. So he says Uthman radiyallahu anhu came to me and said how much are you selling it for? How much would you pay for it?
Now he told the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam it was only worth four dirhams. Uthman radiyallahu anhu said I'll give you 400 for it. He's trying to make things a little easier for him. So Ali radiyallahu anhu said sure, this is great.
Uthman is trying to be charitable but hey, you like it, you value it. Uthman is a rich man, he's the opposite of Ali in terms of his financial circumstances and I'll give you 400 for it.
So he gave him 400 and Ali radiyallahu anhu said so I gave him the dir'a and then after he gave me the 400 dirhams he handed the shield to me and he said this is my wedding gift to you.
So he got his 400 dirhams from the marketplace and he kept his shield. So he said I went back to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam and I told him what happened. So he said the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam da'a li Uthman. It's one of the many occasions where the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam made da'a for Uthman.
And he said rahimallahu aba amru, may Allah be pleased with aba amru referring to him. And he said he's the most generous of son-in-laws. Praising again the generosity of Uthman radiyallahu, this was Uthman, big heart, always the first
right to spend and to when the Prophet, when he knows even that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam would love to see that charity, this is Uthman radiyallahu anhu al-ghani, uses his wealth, makes it easy for Ali radiyallahu ta'ala anhu.
And then comes the wedding preparation, Ali radiyallahu anhu said I sold some other things, just whatever I could find, completely emptied out my house. He said I had 480 dirhams.
And so the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said so what's the mahr gonna be? He said 480 dirhams. I want you to take a moment and think about this. The mahr of the Queen of Jannah, the leader of the women in paradise is 480 dirhams.
Some people have abused this concept so much, turned it into a price, a value, it's supposed to be a gift to symbolize a union.
It's supposed to set the tone for ihsan, for excellence, the gift giving of the husband to the wife and some people have abused this concept so much, turned it into like an insurance plan or something like that, right?
Like 20,000, it's like where did this 20,000, 30,000, 40,000, where does this come from? It's not, the spirit of it is there. Now the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam did not limit, he didn't top it off, but the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wasalam said the best of mahr and the best of weddings are the ones that are the least expensive. There is khair, there is barakah, there's something beautiful and blessed about a simple wedding, a simple mahr, don't overdo it.
You know, that money that you're spending to show everyone who you are and what you are, that money will die the same night, it will go to waste and it might even be sinful, it might even be israf, it might even be an extravagance and then you could have used
that money for something so much better, right? So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, in his own example, and that's why in the Hanafi school, many of the Ahnaf became their history, right? The mahr al-fatimah, right?
The mahr al-fatimah is the mahr at the time of marriage, right? Just the gift, the dowry at the time of marriage. So this is the leader of the women in paradise. Sayyidatunisa al-jannah, 480 silver coins, a few dirhams.
Ali radhiallahu anhu asked the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam, he said, what should I do with it? You know, so it's not just that. The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam said, ija'al thuruthayni fit-tibi, wa thuruthan fil-mata'a.
He said, use two thirds of it to buy her some perfume and use one third of it to buy some furniture. Take the 480 and get it ready. Go get her some perfume, go get her some furniture for her house.
So Ali radhiallahu anhu, this is where the community starts to come together now. He said, so I had no idea how to buy perfume, never bought perfume in his life. He said, so Bilal radhiallahu anhu went with him and Bilal radhiallahu anhu helped him
buy some perfume for his wife Fatima radhiallahu anha. And he said, and I gave the rest to Umm Salama radhiallahu anha. We're bringing in now some heavyweights, right? Some senior sahaba. This is the excitement of the community.
And I asked Umm Salama to use whatever was left to buy what was necessary for the bride for her preparation. The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam then gave some money to Abu Bakr and he said to
Abu Bakr to buy some clothes for Ali and Fatima. And then he sent Ammar ibn Yasir radhiallahu anhu and he said, make the preparations for the wedding.
So, when they went out to the marketplace, now you got Abu Bakr and Ammar ibn Yasir going out shopping for their wedding. Ammar radhiallahu anhu said, I would show everything to Abu Bakr for approval. He would approve it. We'd buy it.
We came back to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, brought the stuff. The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam made dua for barakah, for blessing in the few items that we bought.
Masrook radhiallahu anhu says that Aisha and Umm Salama were given the responsibility to prepare the home of Ali and Fatima. So look at how simple these people are.
Aisha and Umm Salama took some mud from the valley. They prepared it. They cleaned it and they turned it into, they said, we made it into cushions with our hands.
Put a simple cloth over it and we made it into cushions from our hands. They took some dates and some water. They placed a wood in the, you know, I hope that one day we can actually create these simulations to show people this.
I know there have been some attempts, but it would just be beautiful to see it. They put a wood in the corner where they could hang their clothes and they also had some hooks on the wood so that you could hang some of your water vessels.
And then the story of this marriage becomes Kitab al-nikah, Bab al-Waleema in the Sunan of Ibn Majah. Bab al-Waleema actually starts off with this. The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam himself made the bed.
How do you make a bed? The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam with his own hands, he took palm leaves, he took wood, he stuffed the wood with some of the palm leaves and then the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wasalam took a velvet cover, took a pillow that was made of animal skin, filled it with some of the palm fiber as well. That was their cushioning on the inside.
And the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam left for them a pot and he left for them a water skin and he left for them a couple of stones that they could grind grain with. This is the making of the house of Ali and Fatima.
Ali radhiallahu anhu narrates, he said we had one bed in our house and he said it was everything for us. He says it was our bed at night, it was our couch during the daytime and he said and we
would feed our animals off of it and he said we never had a servant, we never had a jariah in our home which is a story that we'll talk about next week inshallah as we continue. So this is subhanallah the simplicity of that coming together.
Asmaa radhiallahu anhu said the best wedding I ever saw, the best waleemah I ever saw was the waleemah of Ali and Fatima. All they had was some barley, some dates and some hayse.
Hayse is date paste, some hayse which they eat in the desert. And that was the wedding meal of Ali and Fatima and it was the happiest day that they remembered in Madinah.
And seeing that wedding, the joy of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, the simplicity of this wedding, that's setting the tone for everybody to how they approach these celebrations and how they approach their weddings.
Finally the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam sent Anas radhiallahu anhu, he called Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Wabaad al-Ansar and some of the Ansar, they bore witness to the wedding and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam says, ushahidukum anni qad zawajtu Fatima min Ali
ala arba'a mi'ati mithqal min fidda, the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said, I bear witness in front of you that I have married my daughter Fatima to Ali for 400 small silver coins,
for the 400 dirhams. Last narration I'll leave you with tonight inshallah and then next week we'll pick up inshallah and talk about this blessed family life. The first night.
These two people who couldn't even talk to express their desire to marry one another, that was a hard wedding day.
So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam told Ali radhiallahu anhu at the waleema, he said go home and he said before you're intimate with each other he said wait for me and I'll come to you.
So Ali radhiallahu anhu said that I came home and he said Umm Ayman brought Fatima to the house so the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam's son Ali to the new house, the bed.
Fatima radhiallahu anhu went home with Umm Ayman radhiallahu anhu and he said we sat there and we just waited for the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam. Super nervous, I mean anxious, what's he going to say?
This is, it's hard right to be the daughter, the son-in-law of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, to have him as your father-in-law. He said so the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam walked in and we were both sitting there and
they were both shaking, nervous, anxious. The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said don't stand up, he told them to stay there. He took the water in their house, the water jug, this is so beautiful subhanallah.
He made wudu with the water, the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam tawadda. Then he made wudu into the jug, so he told Ali radhiallahu anhu to come. Ali radhiallahu anhu came, the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam poured the water on him and
made dua for him. Then he sent Ali radhiallahu anhu to sit down, he told Fatima radhiallahu anhu to come. Fatima radhiallahu anhu was shivering from her hayat when the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam called her.
So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam comforted her, he said to her do not worry, he said I've married you to the most beloved person in my family. I'm marrying you to someone special, I'm marrying you to Ali radhiallahu anhu.
And the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam made wudu and he poured water on Fatima radhiallahu anhu. He embraced her and listened to this beautiful dua and we'll end with this inshallah. What a father, subhanallah.
He said Allahumma barik fihima, oh Allah bless them fihima wa barik alayhima. Oh Allah bless them, and fihima is what is between them and upon them. Bless them in what is between them.
And bless them in what is upon them, wa barik fih shiblihima, and bless them in their offspring. So the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam did his wudu, he wiped the water over, poured the water on her, made that dua for her and Ali, and then the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam walked out. And that was the way that this blessed union came together of Ali and Fatima, the household of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, ahlul bayt.
InshaAllah ta'ala next week we'll pick up and we will continue about what came out of that household and the way that these two would live their lives. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make beloved to us the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam and his family and his companions and to allow us to be like the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam and his family and his companions, to allow us to not just love them but to allow us to also manifest those beautiful noble qualities that we speak of and we ask Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala to join us with them all.
Allahuma Ameen.
