Hazrat Faatimah’s Share Reserved for the Aakhirat

Hazrat Thaubaan (Radhiyallahu anhu) narrates: “Whenever Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihi wasallam) went on a journey, he always greeted Hazrat Sayyidah Faatimah (Radhiyallahu anha) after everything else, and when he returned from a journey, he went to her home first of all.

Once, Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihi wasallam) returned from a battle and, according to his habit, he went to the house of Hazrat Faatimah (Radhiyallahu anha). She had hung an expensive type of curtain by the doorway, and both children, Hazrat Hasan and Hazrat Husain, were wearing silver bracelets. Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihi wasallam) returned without entering the house.

Hazrat Faatimah (Radhiyallahu anha) understood why he did not enter and so she immediately removed both, the curtain and the bracelets. Both children came to Sayyid-e-Aalam, Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihi wasallam) holding the bracelets crying.

Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihi wasallam) took the bracelets from them and said to me (the narrator): “O Thaubaan! Go and buy an ivory necklace for Faatimah and two ivory bracelets. These are my family. I do not like them to be utilizing (and wearing) in this world their share of expensive things.”

(Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Kee Saahbzaadiya)