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Marriage of I. Ali (A) to Bibi Fatema (SA)

1st Zilhajj

Night:

Between Maghrib and `Isha' recite a two rakaat prayer and in each unit recite Surah al-Fatihah once, Surah al-Tawhid once

Day:

It is highly recommended to fast on this day

Recite 4 raka'ats (2x2), in each unit after Sura al-Hamd, recite Sura al-Ikhlas 50 times. After completion recite Tasbih of Bibi Fatema (SA)

Half an hour before Dhuhr, recite 2 raka'at prayer, in each unit after Sura al-Hamd recite Sura al-Ikhlas, Ayatul Kursi, and Sura al-Qadr 10 times each.

Excerpt from 'The Life of Fatimah Az-Zahra', The Principal of all Women: Study and Analysis:

Then, the Prophet (S) went to Fatimah (s.a.) and said to her, 'I marry you to the best one of my umma. He is the most knowledgeable, the most prudent and the first Muslim.'

The Prophet (S) said to Imam Ali (a.s.), 'O Ali, do you have something (to pay as dowry)?'

Imam Ali (a.s.) said, 'I have a sword, an armor, and a horse.'

The Prophet (S) said to him, 'As for your horse, you need it, and as for your sword, you cannot do without it, but as for your armor, you can sell it.'

Imam Ali (a.s.) went to the market and sold his armor for four hundred and eighty dirhams and came back with the amount knotted in the end of his shirt, and put it before the Prophet (S). It was a very simple dowry and it was less than what the poor might pay.The Prophet (S) took a handful of dirhams and gave them to Bilal to buy with them some perfumes for Fatimah (s.a.), and other handfuls to Salman and Umm Salamah to buy some furniture. It was no long until all requirements of the wedding were prepared. The furniture of Fatimah (s.a.) and Ali (a.s.) was the following:

1. A sheepskin to sleep on
2. A pillow of leather stuffed with palm-tree fibers
3. A bed made of palm-tree branches
4. A quern
5. A water skin
6. Two jars
7. Some pottery vessels

The furniture was put before the Prophet (S). He looked at the pottery and said,
'Blessed are the people of a house whose most vessels are of pottery.'

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