‘ Fadak _Property Of Fatimah ’

Fadak was a piece of land near Khyber. After the conquest of Khyber, as per the terms of peace
treaty, it went in the possession of the holy Prophet (pbuh). Only war booty is to be distributed
amongst the participants and as Fadak was not captured forcibly in a holy war, no other Muslim
had any right or share in it and thus it was an absolute property of the holy Prophet (s.a.w).
After the death of Holy Prophet (pbuh) Hazrat Fatimah was informed that the rightly guided
caliph Abu Bakr had cancelled Fatimah’s (s.a) ownership of Fadak! Fatimah (s.a) was very much
grieved by this act.
Narrated 'Aisha: (mother of the believers) After the death of Allah 's Apostle Fatima the
daughter of Allah's Apostle asked Abu Bakr As-Siddiq to give her, her share of inheritance
from what Allah's Apostle had left of the Fai (i.e. booty gained without fighting) which
Allah had given him. Abu Bakr said to her, "Allah's Apostle said, 'Our property will not be
inherited, whatever we (i.e. prophets) leave is Sadaqa (to be used for charity)." Fatima, the
daughter of Allah's Apostle got angry and stopped speaking to Abu Bakr, and continued
assuming that attitude till she died. Fatima remained alive for six months after the death of
Allah's Apostle................. Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 53, Hadith 325.
Sahih Muslim, Book 19, Number 4352
Here few questions arise:
 Claim of Fatimah (sa), daughter of Muhammad (pbuh) was enough. She should have
been given Fadak without a question or witnesses.
 Why a woman like Fatima (sa), ask for something which is not hers? Reading the verse
of purity, and Hz Fatimah's (sa) inclusion in it, it can be concluded that she was pure
from all impurities, all worldly and materialistic pleasures. She cannot lie.
 Why the witnesses of Ali and Umme Aiman (about whom the Prophet had testified that
she would go to Paradise) were not accepted when Holy Prophet had repeatedly said,
“Wherever Ali goes, truth goes with him.”
 If it was a property of all followers then why third caliph granted Fadak to Marwan ibn al
Hakam.?
 The hadith quoted by the caliph for not granting Fadak was clearly against the spirit of
Quran. In Quran there are references to the property of Prophet Sulaiman, Dawood,
Zakariya and Hz Yahya (AS). All of them were prophets and property holders.
Narrated 'Aisha: Once Fatima came walking and her gait resembled the gait of the Prophet .
The Prophet said, "Welcome, O my daughter!" ..........."The Prophet said. 'Every year Gabriel
used to revise the Qur'an with me once only, but this year he has done so twice. I think this
portends my death, and you will be the first of my family to follow me.' So I started weeping.
Then he said. 'Don't you like to be the mistress of all the ladies of Paradise or the mistress of all
the lady believers? So I laughed for that." Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 56, Hadith 819s

Fadak-in the light of Quran:

Give the kinsmen his due, and the needy, and the wayfarer........(Surah Isra, 17:26)
All the Shi'ah and the Sunni are agreed that this verse was revealed for the near relatives of the
Prophet and the words 'the near ones' (kinsmen) are best applicable to his daughter, FATIMAH.
And Sulaiman was Dawood's heir Quran [27:15-16]
Whereas Qur'an says: Sulaiman got his father's (inheritance); Dawood got his fathers'.
Regarding Yahya bin Zakariyya He said, "O' Allah: grant me a son, who could be my Successor
and of the progeny of Yaqoob."
Those who possess faith in Quran and for those who consider Mubahila as the evidence of Lady
Fatimah’s truthfulness and take Surah Hal Ataa in the light of her exalted character, they are
sure that Fadak was the absolute property of Fatimah (sa) and it was her due but unfortunately
government usurped it.