page_title: Umar at Fatimah's house
section_title: Historicity
hierarchical_section_title: Umar at Fatimah's house / Historicity
caption_attribution_description: فارسی: عکسی از مراسم فاطمیه - شهرقدس - عکاس علیرضا حبیبی English: Fatima - Mourning Ceremony Fatemiyeh Photo by: Alireza Habibi
context_page_description: Umar at Fatimah's house refers to a confrontation which took place at the home of Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, shortly after the latter's death in 632 CE.
  A group, led by the prominent sahaba Umar, went to the house to meet Fatimah's husband Ali and his partisans, with the aim of gaining their allegiance for the newly elected caliph, Abu Bakr. However, this resulted in a standoff between the two parties, the details of which are uncertain.
  This event, which has mentions in Shia, Sunni, and western academic books, is also claimed by Shia sources to have led to Fatimah's miscarriage of her son Muhsin ibn Ali, as well as her own death shortly after. However, the veracity of this account is disputed, with beliefs being primarily split on sectarian lines between Sunni and Shia denominations.
context_section_description: The events that took place in the house have been the subject of dispute between various accounts, with the versions including violence primarily having Shia origins. Several early historical sources narrate that Fatimah's child Muhsin had died in early childhood rather than being miscarried. Al-Baladhuri, along with Al-Ya'qubi and Al-Masudi, list Muhsin among the children of Fatimah, but without any mention of a miscarriage. Similarly, the Shia theologian Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, when writing his Kitab al-Irshad, makes no mention of violence in relation to Muhsin's death. The earliest known reference of the miscarriage during the altercation only appears in the 10th century, in Ibn Qulawayh Al-Qummi's Kamil al-ziyarat.
  Other sources also add that Fatimah and Abu Bakr had ultimately reconciled, and that she died of illness, with him attending and praying at her funeral. Ali is also believed to have later willingly offered his oath of allegiance to Abu Bakr and gave a praise-filled oration during the latter's funeral. Professor Coeli Fitzpatrick surmises that the story of the altercation reflects the political agendas of the period and should therefore be treated with caution.
caption: Fatemeh's house symbolically
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