Fatima al-Sughra bint Musa al-Kazim

Fatima al-Sughra, Peace Be Upon Her, belonged to the Musawi branch of the Prophet's family. Shaykh al-Mufid's al-Irshad states that Imam Musa al-Kazim, Peace Be Upon Him, had thirty-seven sons and daughters and names both Fatima al-Kubra and Fatima al-Sughra among the daughters. This separate listing is the strongest basis for her registry identity and prevents her from being silently absorbed into the biography of the better-known Fatima al-Kubra, Lady al-Ma'suma of Qom.

A later extraction from the works of Shaykh al-Mufid identifies Fatima al-Sughra as a daughter of Musa al-Kazim whose mother was an unnamed umm walad. The original family lists group many children under different slave-mothers without preserving a personal name for each mother. No exact maternal identity should therefore be added, and the blank documented mother details remain historically appropriate.

Other Imami genealogical compilations preserve multiple daughters named Fatima. The collected child lists in Musnad al-Imam al-Kazim cite al-Manaqib and Kashf al-Ghumma and distinguish Fatima al-Kubra from Fatima al-Sughra, while some later lists add a middle or another Fatima. These variations confirm the repeated name within the family but do not supply a secure birth order, date of birth, or detailed life chronology for Fatima al-Sughra.

No early or classical source reviewed securely names a husband, children, students, independent hadith corpus, written work, political activity, or public office for her. General statements that each child of Musa al-Kazim possessed recognized merit belong to family praise and cannot replace an individual biography. A responsible profile therefore preserves her name, father, family generation, and the limits of the evidence without constructing unsupported events.

Identity control is essential in the Bibi-Heybat case. The shrine's current official website presents it as the sacred shrine of Lady Fatima al-Hakima and Lady Hakima, and Baku's local historical memory also uses the name Hakima. The same modern custodial material treats Hakima as another name for Fatima al-Sughra, but Shaykh al-Mufid's early family list records them as separate daughters. Under this conflict, the safe database rule is to place the shrine in Hakima's record and to attach no shrine name, map or coordinates to Fatima al-Sughra's page.

The Khahar-e Imam shrine at Rasht is also not treated as an alternative burial of Fatima al-Sughra. Gilani local tradition attributes it to Fatima Ukhra or Fatima Tahira, sister of Imam al-Rida; this is a separate name and a separate pilgrimage identity. This separation neither denies nor disrespects either sanctuary: it ensures that every revered place appears on the page of the person to whom it is officially or locally attributed. Fatima al-Sughra's primary-shrine and GPS fields therefore remain blank, and her burial is recorded as historically unknown.