Day 7

The lesson

1. They returned for Imam Ali's allegiance and set the door on fire. She stood behind the door; by the fire and the force of Umar and those with him she was crushed against it and lost her unborn son al-Muhsin (Ma'ani al-Akhbar of al-Saduq; Dala'il al-Imama). Kitab Sulaym records that Qunfudh pressed her between the door and the wall and broke her rib. She tried to stop them taking Imam Ali by force, and from then she lay ill.
2. When Abu Bakr and Umar came to ask her pardon she turned her face from them and did not return their greeting. She reminded them that the Prophet said her anger is his anger, and told them they had earned her anger. She died angry with those who had wronged her.
3. On her deathbed she asked Imam Ali that none who had wronged her should pray over her or attend her burial, and that she be buried at night and her grave hidden (Manaqib Ibn Shahrashub 3:137; 'Ilal al-Shara'i'). Her body was carried in a coffin she had asked to be made.

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