The birth of al-Zahra’, Fatima  عليه السلام — report 10

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

10ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنِ الْخَيْبَرِيِّ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ ظَبْيَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ لَوْ لا أَنَّ الله تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى خَلَقَ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) لِفَاطِمَةَ مَا كَانَ لَهَا كُفْوٌ عَلَى ظَهْرِ الارْضِ مِنْ آدَمَ وَمَنْ دُونَهُ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

10. A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Washsha’ from al-Khaybari from Yunus ibn Zabyan who has said the following. “I heard abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام say, ‘Had Allah not created Amir al-Mu’minin Ali عليه السلام for Fatima, there would been no match on earth for her from Adam to the end.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 114, report 10

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/349)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/114/10. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.