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Time passed and F; timah still remained mournful and depressed
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by the loss of her father. She died at the age of twenty-nine, in the
third of Ramadan in the year 11, Hijra, about six months after her
father's death.
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However, the short life of ýatimah, the resplendent one, spanned
the period of her father's great mission, because she was born before
his call, and she died shortly after his death. She typifies the
woman whose life is spent in the service of her husband and children.
She worked hard, doing her best for her family in those hard and
straitened circumstances. In spite of the fact that
busy with pregnancies and giving birth, bringing up children,
iatimah was
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she tried to take a positive part in af fairs to help in the growth
of Muslim society as far as she could. For example, before her
marriage, she acted as a sort of hostess to the poor and also
played a part on the battlefields.
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"As soon as the Battle
of , Uhud was over, she went with the other women to the battlefields
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and wept over the dead martyrs and took time to dress her father's
wounds .
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On another occasion, at the Battle of the Ditch, she played a
crucial role with the other women in preparing food during the long
and difficult siege. " 4
Moreover, Fatimah al-Zahr;
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ltried to teach people what she
learned from her noble father, "She was passionately devoted to
her father and to the message he preached. What she and her husband
1., Ibn al-Athir, op. cit., P. 226
2. Hamid, op. cit. p P. '26
3. Ibid
4. Ibid
156.