Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 15210

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and sat before him. He said: O Messenger of Allah! You know my sincere goodwill and my early precedence in Islam; I am this and I am that. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So what is it? He said: Marry me to Fatimah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) remained silent; the narrator is unsure whether the words are: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) turned away from him. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) went to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: I am ruined. He asked: What happened? He said: I proposed to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) for Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her), and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) turned away from me. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Stay here; I will go to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and make the same request of him that you made. Then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and sat before him. He said: O Messenger of Allah! You know my sincere goodwill and my early precedence in Islam; I am this and I am that. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then what is it? He said: Marry me to Fatimah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) turned away. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) returned to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) must be awaiting the command of Allah concerning her. Come with us to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), so that we may tell him to make the same request that we made. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) says: The two of them came to me while I was on the road. They said: A proposal has been made for the daughter of your uncle. Then they urged me in this matter, so I got up, with one end of my cloak on my neck and the other on the ground, and went dragging it until I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and I sat down before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). I said: O Messenger of Allah! You know my early precedence in Islam and my sincere goodwill, and this and that. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: O Ali! So what is it? I said: Marry me to Fatimah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: What do you have? I said: I have a horse and my coat of mail. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: As for the horse, you need it; as for the coat of mail, sell it. The narrator says: I sold it for four hundred and eighty dirhams, brought the money to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and placed it in his lap. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took a handful of it and said: O Bilal! Get perfume with this. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered the people to prepare the household goods of Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had a bed made for her and a leather pillow stuffed with leaves, and sand was spread throughout the house. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When she comes to you, do not say anything until I come to you. Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) came (to the house of Sayyiduna Ali, may Allah be pleased with him) with Sayyidah Umm Ayman (may Allah be pleased with her) and sat in a corner of the house. (Sayyiduna Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, says:) I was in the other corner of the house. Meanwhile the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived and asked: Is my brother here? Sayyidah Umm Ayman (may Allah be pleased with her) said: He is your brother, and you have married your daughter to him? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her): Bring me water. She got up, went to a vessel in the house, put water in it and brought it. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) rinsed his mouth into it, then said to Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her): Stand up. Then he sprinkled water on her chest and on her head, and made this supplication: O Allah! I place her and her offspring in Your protection from Satan the accursed. Then he said: Turn around. She turned around, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sprinkled water between her shoulders as well and made this supplication: O Allah! I place her and her offspring in Your protection from Satan the accursed. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Bring me more water. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I understood what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) wanted, so I filled the vessel with water and brought it to him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took a little of the water into his mouth and then rinsed it back into it; then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) poured water on my head and my hands, and made the supplication: O Allah! I place him and his offspring in Your protection from Satan the accursed. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Now go in to your wife, in the name of Allah and with blessing.
Imam al-Tabarani recorded this narration. Its chain contains a narrator, Yahya bin Ya'la al-Aslami, who is da'if (weak).