Moral virtues:
Fatimah (AS) had high moral virtues and her life is full of
spiritual behavior. We explain two of them below noticing that these
are only a very little part of her moral virtues:
1. Jaber-bin-Abdullah-al-Ansari, the Prophet,s (PBUH)
companion, says that a poor emigrant (Mohajer) came to the
Prophet (PBUH) and asked for help. The Prophet (PBUH) answered: I
do not have anything. Go to my daughter whose house is beside mine.
Then Bilal, the Prophet (PBUH),s muezzin, guided him. He went to
Fatimah,s (AS) house and said: Peace be on you, O! The family of
the Prophet (PBUH) and asked for help. When Fatimah (AS) got aware
of his poverty, although she and her father and husband did not have
anything to eat for 3 days, she brought out the necklace which
Hamzeh,s (AS) son -her cousin- had presented her and told the man:
Take this and sell it. I hope that Allah gives you better than
this. The man took the necklace and went to the Prophet (PBUH) and
described what had happened. The Prophet (PBUH) cried and prayed for
him. Ammar-e-Yaser (the Prophet,s (PBUH) companion) stood up and
after getting permission, bought the necklace instead of giving him
food, cloth, an animal and cost of traveling. The Prophet (PBUH)
asked the man: Are you satisfied? The man felt ashamed and
thanked. Ammar put the necklace in a Yemeni cloth and perfumed it
and dedicated it to the Prophet (PBUH) with his slave. The slave
came to the Prophet (PBUH) and told the story. The Prophet (PBUH)
offered the necklace and the slave to Fatimah (AS). The slave came
to Fatimah (AS). She took the necklace and let the slave free. He
smiled and when he was asked for the reason, he answered: What a
blessed necklace! It fed a hungry, covered a naked, made a
pedestrian have an animal, made someone free from want, let a slave
free and finally returned to its owner.
2. Prophet (PBUH) bought Fatimah (AS) a new dress for her
marriage ceremony and she owned a patchy dress. A poor man came to
her house and asked for a used cloth. Fatimah (AS) decided to give
him the old dress as he had asked but remembered the verse: You
never attain to righteousness until you spend out of what you like.
So she gave him the new dress.