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The events of the second year of the Hijra: Badr al-Kubra parting truth from falsehood, Ali’s marriage to Fatima with the houtami armor as dowry, the qibla changed, fasting and zakat prescribed, the hostile rabbis and Moukhayriq the best of the Jews, from al-Boukhari, Mouslim, Ibn Ishaq and al-Bayhaqi.
Updated on 05 October 2026 at 10:56 AM
Part of: The second year of the Hijra
al-Bayhaqi related in the Dala’il, from Abu Abdillah the hafiz, from Abu al-Abbas Muhammad ibn Ya’qoub al-Asamm, from Ahmad ibn Abd al-Jabbar, from Younous ibn Boukayr, from Ibn Ishaq: Abdallah ibn Abi Najih related to me, from Mujahid, from Ali: I proposed Fatima to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). A freedman of mine said: know you that Fatima was proposed to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)? I said: no. He said: she was proposed: what prevents you from going to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) that he marry you? I said: and what have I to marry with? He said: were you to go to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), he would marry you. By Allah,
she never ceased encouraging me until I entered upon the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). When I sat before him, I was overwhelmed: by Allah, I could not speak, so great were his majesty and awe. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “What brings you, have you a need?” I was silent. He said: “Perhaps you come proposing Fatima.” I said: “Yes.” He said: “Have you anything wherewith to make her lawful?” I said: “No, by Allah, O Messenger of Allah.” He said: “What became of the houtami armor I gave you?” : by Him Who holds Ali’s soul, it was a houtami worth four dirhams : I said: “I have it.” He said: “I have married you: send it her and make her lawful by it.” Such was the dowry of Fatima, daughter of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).
Ibn Ishaq said: Fatima bore Ali Hassan, Houssayn, Mouhsin : who died young :, Umm Koulthoum and Zaynab. al-Bayhaqi related then, through the chain of Ata ibn as-Sa’ib, from his father, from Ali: the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) equipped Fatima with a wool pillow, a waterskin and a leather pillow stuffed with idhkhir grass. And al-Bayhaqi transmitted from the book al-Ma’rifa of Abu Abdillah Ibn Mandah that Ali married Fatima a year after the Hijra, and entered upon her another year after that.
Ibn Kathir says: the entering upon her would then be at the beginning of the third year of the Hijra; but the apparent context of the two nobles’ hadith requires that it were shortly after Badr: that would be as we mentioned, at the end of the second year. Allah is most knowing.