Names and titles of Fatima

Fatima (605/15-632 CE) was daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and wife to his cousin Ali, the fourth of the Rashidun caliphs and the first Shia Imam.Template:Sfn Fatima has been compared to Mary, mother of Jesus, especially in Shia Islam.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Muhammad is said to have regarded her as the best of womenTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn and the dearest person to him.Template:Sfn She is often viewed as an ultimate archetype for Muslim women and an example of compassion, generosity, and enduring suffering.Template:Sfn It is through Fatima that Muhammad's family line has survived to this date.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Her name and her epithets remain popular choices for Muslim girls.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Names and titles

Her most common epithet is al-Zahra (Template:Lit),Template:Sfn which encodes her piety and regularity in prayer.Template:Sfn This epithet is believed by the Shia to be a reference to her primordial creation from light that continues to radiate throughout the creation.Template:Sfn The Shia Ibn Babawahy (Template:Died in) writes that, whenever Fatima prayed, her light shone for the inhabitants of the heavens as starlight shines for the inhabitants of the earth.Template:Sfn Other titles of her in Shia are al-Ṣiddiqa (Template:Lit),Template:Sfn al-Tahira (Template:Lit),Template:Sfn al-Mubaraka (Template:Lit),Template:Sfn and al-Mansura (Template:Lit).Template:Sfn Another Shia title is al-Muḥadditha, in view of the reports that angels spoke to Fatima on multiple occasions,Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn similar to Mary, mother of Jesus.Template:Sfn

Fatima is also recognized as Sayyidat Nisa' al-Janna (Template:Lit) and Sayyidat Nisa' al-Alamin (Template:Lit) in Shia and Sunni collections of hadith, including the canonical Sunni Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.Template:Sfn

Fatima

The name Fatima is from the Arabic root f-t-m (Template:Lit) and signifies the Shia belief that she, her progeny, and her adherents () have been spared from hellfire.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Alternatively, the word Fatima is associated in Shia sources with Fatir (Template:Lit, a name of God) as the earthly symbol of the divine creative power.Template:Sfn

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A or honorific title of Fatima in Islam is Umm Abiha (Template:Lit), suggesting that Fatima was exceptionally nurturing towards her father.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Umm al-Aima (Template:Lit) is a of Fatima in Twelver sources,Template:Sfn as eleven of the Twelve Imams descended from her.Template:Sfn

See also

• Fatimiyya
• Burial of Fatima
• Names and titles of Muhammad

Sources

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External links

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