On Sunday, the 22nd of December 2024 A.D. (the 20th of Jamādi al-Thānī 1446 A.H.)
Lady Fāṭima was born on the 20th of Jamādi al-Thānī in Mecca, in the 5th year after the declaration of the Prophethood (615 A.D.).
There is a narration from Mufaddal bin ´Umar to have said, “I asked Imam al-Sādiq regarding the birth of Lady Fātima. The Imam replied ‘when Lady Khadījah married the Prophet, the women in Mecca distanced themselves away from her…, but when Lady Khadījah became pregnant with Lady Fātima the fetus would speak to her mother from her womb and pacify her, while Khadījah had concealed this matter from the Prophet. One day the Prophet entered the house and saw her speaking with someone and asked, ‘Whom are you speaking to’? She replied, ‘The child in my womb speaks to me and is my companion’. The Prophet continued, ‘Gabriel informed me that this child is a daughter, a Chaste and Auspicious Progeny, and Allah will multiply my progeny through her very soon…’
When Lady Khadījah sent message to the women of Quraysh and Banī Hāshim tribe to assist her in childbirth... they replied saying that she had not paid heed to their words and had rejected them by marrying Muhammad, the orphan of Abū Tālib who was indigent... She became restless and dejected after hearing their reply. Suddenly, she saw four women, with brunet complexion and tall stature, similar to the women of Banī Hāshim, entered therein. She was confused looking at them, one of them said, ‘O Khadījah! Do not grieve. We have come to your aid by the command of Allah. We are your sisters, I am Sarah (the wife of Prophet Abraham); she is Āsiyah, the daughter of Muzāhim (and the believer wife of Pharaoh), who shall be your companion in Paradise; while she is Maryam, the daughter of ´Imrān; and the third one is Kulthūm, the sister of Prophet Moses. Allah Almighty has sent us to assist you at the time of childbirth...’
(Al-´Amālī, Sheikh al-Sadūq, chapter 87, hadith no. 947).
