The study of the biography of the Prophet, Hazrat Muhammad (S.A.W.W.) and that of the twelve Imams remains incomplete if we exclude from it the biography of Hazrat Fatima (S.A).
This is because she is the main link between the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) and the twelve Imams. This link can be looked at in two different ways.
Firstly, this link is explained in the tradition of the mantle (“Hadise Kisa”), when the Archangel Gibrael asks Allah as to who are in the Mantle. Allah says, “They arc: I’annul her father, her husband and her sons“.
Secondly, she is the Grandmother to nine Imams (beginning the fourth Imam, Hazrat Ali. Zainulabidin), all being the direct descendants of her son Imam Husain (AS) The progeny of the Prophet continues through her. On this matter the Prophet himself is reported to have said:
“Allah made the offspring of every Prophet in that Prophets loins, and he made my offspring in I he loins of Ali…” All sons are linked to their farther except the sons of Fatima. For I am their leather and their closest relative. "
Moreover, for the Muslim men, the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) was the example from whom they could learn how to live a life of excellence (“Uswatul Hasana”).
For the Muslim women, Hazrat Fatima (S.A) became the model on which Muslim women could learn to lead a life of virtue and excellence.
Source:
A Brief Biography of Hazrat Fatima (a.s.), [P.2].
By: M.M. Dungersi Ph.D.
