Her exact date and place of birth are not preserved in reliable historical sources.
Fatima bint Muhammad al-Jawad
PER-000156
Ahl al-Bayt
Probable
Burial place unknown
Imami source baseline
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Fatima bint Muhammad al-Jawad is a sparsely documented woman of the Ahl al-Bayt named as a daughter of Muhammad al-Jawad in the family lists attributed to al-Mufid and Abu Abd Allah al-Harithi. Other Imami enumerations preserve different names for the daughters, so her identity is retained as probable and explicitly source-dependent. Reliable independent details about her mother, marriage, descendants, life events, death, and burial are not known.
Her date, age, place, and circumstances of death are not established by reliable historical evidence.
Her specific burial place is unknown. An attributed grave or memorial should not be treated as her certain burial without reliable historical evidence.
Biography and historical profile
The basic identity of Fatima bint Muhammad al-Jawad is that of a daughter of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Jawad. Al-Mufid's child list preserves the names Ali al-Hadi, Musa, Fatima, and Umama among al-Jawad's children. A report attributed to Abu Abd Allah al-Harithi likewise names Fatima and Umama as his daughters.
The later source tradition is not unanimous about this family list. Another enumeration attributed to Ibn Shahr Ashub names Ali al-Hadi and Musa together with daughters called Hakima, Khadija, and Umm Kulthum, but does not name Fatima or Umama. The difference shows that the names of al-Jawad's daughters were transmitted in more than one genealogical and biographical form.
Fatima's name nevertheless occurs in more than one preserved Imami report, so removing her from the record would be unwarranted. The protected Probable confidence accurately reflects this evidence. She has not been equated without proof with Hakima, Khadija, Umm Kulthum, or Umama.
The accessible reliable lists do not identify Fatima's mother. No strong independent evidence was found for her marriage, husband, descendants, education, transmission of hadith, travel, or participation in a particular political or devotional event. All protected relationship cells therefore remain unchanged, and no new relationship review has been created.
Her date and place of birth, age, circumstances of death, and burial place are unknown. No local tomb, shrine, or biography of a namesake has been attached to her. Her historical importance lies in preserving a limited but genuine name-level attestation while openly recording the disagreement among the family lists.
The later source tradition is not unanimous about this family list. Another enumeration attributed to Ibn Shahr Ashub names Ali al-Hadi and Musa together with daughters called Hakima, Khadija, and Umm Kulthum, but does not name Fatima or Umama. The difference shows that the names of al-Jawad's daughters were transmitted in more than one genealogical and biographical form.
Fatima's name nevertheless occurs in more than one preserved Imami report, so removing her from the record would be unwarranted. The protected Probable confidence accurately reflects this evidence. She has not been equated without proof with Hakima, Khadija, Umm Kulthum, or Umama.
The accessible reliable lists do not identify Fatima's mother. No strong independent evidence was found for her marriage, husband, descendants, education, transmission of hadith, travel, or participation in a particular political or devotional event. All protected relationship cells therefore remain unchanged, and no new relationship review has been created.
Her date and place of birth, age, circumstances of death, and burial place are unknown. No local tomb, shrine, or biography of a namesake has been attached to her. Her historical importance lies in preserving a limited but genuine name-level attestation while openly recording the disagreement among the family lists.
Historical importance and legacy
Fatima's entry is important for preserving the names of women in the family record of the Ahl al-Bayt when their fuller biographies did not survive in later historical literature.
Her profile is a clear example of source disagreement: some lists name Fatima and Umama, while another names Hakima, Khadija, and Umm Kulthum. Preserving that difference under a probable confidence level is more responsible than silently forcing the lists into one form.
Because the evidence is limited, the record states only the supported parentage and the differing enumerations. Her mother, spouse, descendants, events, dates, and burial remain unknown, making the qualified profile safe for public publication.
Her profile is a clear example of source disagreement: some lists name Fatima and Umama, while another names Hakima, Khadija, and Umm Kulthum. Preserving that difference under a probable confidence level is more responsible than silently forcing the lists into one form.
Because the evidence is limited, the record states only the supported parentage and the differing enumerations. Her mother, spouse, descendants, events, dates, and burial remain unknown, making the qualified profile safe for public publication.
Family relationships
👪 Parents
Father
Imam Muhammad al-Jawad
Probable
Sources
Al-Irshad | Shaykh al-Mufid | Volume 2, page 295; exact child-list quotation preserved in A'yan al-Shia, page 33 | https://ablibrary.net/book_content/74/33 | Names Ali, Musa, Fatima and Umama among the children of Muhammad al-Jawad.A'yan al-Shia | Muhsin al-Amin | Page 33 in the linked edition | https://ablibrary.net/book_content/74/33 | Compares al-Mufid's list with Ibn Shahr Ashub's different daughter list and Abu Abd Allah al-Harithi's Fatima-and-Umama report.
Tanqih al-Maqal fi Ilm al-Rijal | Abd Allah al-Mamaqani | Page 328 in the linked edition | https://ablibrary.net/book_content/18532/328 | Preserves the exact disagreement between the Fatima-and-Umama list and the Hakima, Khadija and Umm Kulthum list.
Mustadrak Safinat al-Bihar | Ali al-Namazi al-Shahrudi | Volume 2, page 405 | https://ar.lib.eshia.ir/11016/2/405 | Repeats the differing reports on Muhammad al-Jawad's daughters and records the Fatima-and-Umama tradition.
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