Hadith 75

s reported by Abu al Huzeyl, from Muqatil, from Muhammad Bin Al Hanafiya, ‘From his father-asws: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww recited: Allah has Chosen you and Purified you [3: 42] – Verse. He-saww said to me-asws: ‘O Ali-asws! Best of the women of the world are four – Maryam-as Bint Imran-as, and Khadeeja-asws Bint Khuwaylid-as, and (Syeda) Fatima-asws Bint Muhammad-asws, and Aasiya-as Bint Muzahim-as’’. [95]
Aby Nueym in ‘Ak Hulya’, and Ibn Al Bayie in ‘Al Musnad’, and Al Khateeb in ‘Al Tareekh’, and Ibn Battah in ‘Al Ibanah’, and Ahmad Al Sam’any in ‘Al Fazaail’, by their chains from Ma’mar, from Qatadah, from Anas. And it is reported by Al Sa’alby in his ‘Tafseer’, and Al Salamy in ‘Tareekh Al Khurasan’, and Abu Salih Al Muwazzib in ‘Al Arbaeen’ by their chains from Abu Hureyra. And it is reported by Al Shaby, from Jabir Bin Abdullah, and Saeed Bin Al Musayyab. And it is reported by Kureyb, from Ibn Abbas. And it is reported by Muqatil, from Suleyman, from Al Zahhak, from Ibn Abbas. And it has been reported by Abu Masoud, and Abdul Razzaq, and Ahmad, and Is’haq, ‘All of them, from the Prophet-saww, and the wordings are of (the book) ‘Al-Hulya’. He-saww said: ‘It suffice you from women of the worlds being Maryam-as Bint Imran-as, and Khadeeja-asws Bint Khuwaylid-as, and (Syeda) Fatima Bint Muhammad-asws, and Aasiya-as wife of Pharaoh-la’. And in a report of Muqatil, and Al-Zahhak, and Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas, ‘And their superior is (Syeda) Fatima-asws’’. [96]
(The book) ‘Al Fazaail’ – From Abdul Malik Al Ukbary, and ‘Musnad’ of Ahmad, by their chains, from Kureyb, from Ibn Abbas, ‘He-saww said: ‘Chieftess of the people of Paradise is Maryam-as’’. [97] (from a non-Shia source)
(The book) ‘Tareekh Baghdad’ – By a chain of Al Khateeb, from Humeyd Al Taweel, from Anas (well-known fabricator), ‘The Prophet-saww said: ‘Best of women of the worlds’ – the same Hadeeth. Then the Prophet-saww said: ‘Her-asws superiority is over rest of the women of the worlds, in the world and the Hereafter’’. [98]
It is reported by Ayesha (well-known fabricatress) and others, ‘From the Prophet-saww having said: ‘O Fatima-asws! Receive glad tidings, for Allah-azwj the Exalted has Chosen you-asws over women of the worlds, and over women of, and it is the best religion’’. [99]
Huzeyfa – ‘The Prophet-saww said: ‘An Angel came and gave me-saww glad tidings that (Syeda) Fatima-asws is chieftess of the inhabitants of Paradise, or women of my-saww community’’. [100]
Al Bukhari and Muslim in their (two books) ‘Saheeh’, and Abu Al Sa’adat in ‘Fazail Al Ashra’, and Abu Bakr Bin Shayba in his ‘Amaali’, and Al Daylamy in ‘Firdows’ –
‘He-saww said: ‘(Syeda) Fatima-asws is chieftess of the inhabitants of Paradise’’. [101]
(The book) ‘Hulya’ of Abu Nueym – It is reported by Jabir Bin Samurah, ‘From the Prophet-saww in a Hadeeth: ‘But, she-asws is chieftess of women on the Day of Qiyamah’’. [102]
(The book) ‘Tareekh’ of Al Balazuri –
‘The Prophet-saww said to (Syeda) Fatima-asws: ‘You-asws will be quickest of my-saww family to join with me-saww’. She-asws was silent (calmed down). He-saww said to her-asws: ‘Are you-asws not pleased that you-asws happen to be chieftess of women of the inhabitants of Paradise? ’ She-asws smiled’’. [103]