Testimony of Umm Ayman for Fadak

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Then Fatemah (s.a.) replied, “Fadak is a property that my father gifted to me and I have evidences for it”.

Abu Bakr replied, “Then go and bring those witnesses”.

Fatemah (s.a.) brought Umm Ayman and Ali (a.s.) to Abu Bakr as her witnesses.

Abu Bakr asked Umm Ayman, “Did you hear anything from the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) regarding Fatemah (s.a.)”?

Umm Ayman and Ali (a.s.) said, “We heard the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) say that Fatemah (s.a.) is the Mistress of the women of Paradise”, then Umm Ayman said, “Then the one who is the Mistress of the women of Paradise will not claim anything that is not her property, while I myself am a woman from among the women of Paradise (as related by the Prophet). Then I shall not say that I have heard from the Prophet of Allah (s.a.w.s.) anything that I have not heard from him”.

Umar said, “Leave aside these words, thensay now what witness do you bear regarding Fatemah (s.a.)”?

Umm Ayman  replied, “I was seated in the house of Fatemah (s.a.) while the Prophet of Allah (s.a.w.s.) was present there too. At that momentJibra’eel descended and said, O Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) ! Arise and come with me, that Allah (s.w.t.) has commanded me to draw the boundary of Fadak with my wings. The Prophet of Allah (s.a.w.s.) arose and went with Jibra’eel and returned after an hour and Fatemah (s.a.) asked him, O Father ! Where did you go ? The Prophet (s.a.w.s.) replied that Jibra’eel marked Fadak for me with his wings and drew its boundaries. Fatemah (s.a.) said, that O Father ! I worry about economic necessities after you, then make Fadak an insurance against these necessities for me. The Prophet (s.a.w.s.) replied that, I give this property under your possession and Fatemah (s.a.) spent from it. The Prophet of Allah (s.a.w.s.) told me to be a witness and told Imam Ali (a.s.) to be so”.

Umar said, “You are a woman and we do not accept the witness of a woman, and as for the witness of Ali (a.s.), he is prompted to do so for his own benefit”.

House of Sorrows Translation of Baytul AhzanShaikh Abbas Al – Qummi