Authentic
Sahih al-Bukhari 3714
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Fatima is a part of me, and he who makes her angry, makes me angry."
" فَاطِمَةُ بَضْعَةٌ مِنِّي، فَمَنْ أَغْضَبَهَا أَغْضَبَنِي "
فَاطِمَة
Fatima: meaning of the name
Girl Arabic origin Fāṭima
Family of the Prophet ﷺ“She who weans”; name of the Prophet’s daughter ﷺ
Fatima in Islam
Fatima al-Zahraʾ was the youngest daughter of the Prophet ﷺ and Khadija, the wife of ʿAli and the mother of al-Hasan and al-Husayn. The Prophet ﷺ said: “Fatima is a part of me; whoever angers her angers me” (al-Bukhari 3714). She died a few months after him, in the year 11 of the Hijra.
Meaning of the name Fatima
Fatima is the feminine active participle of fatama, “to wean”: the root f-t-m expresses separating and detaching, as a child is separated from its mother’s milk. The classical dictionaries give “she who weans her child”. The name owes its immense spread to Fatima al-Zahraʾ, daughter of the Prophet ﷺ; local forms include Fatma (Turkey, Tunisia), Fatou and Fatimata (West Africa).
- In Arabic
- فَاطِمَة فاطمة
- Transliteration
- Fāṭima
- Root
- ف ط م
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Arabic
Is Fatima in the Quran?
No: neither the name Fatima nor its root appears in the Quran. A name can be beautiful and permissible without coming from the Quran.
In the hadiths
Is this name permissible?
No text or scholarly opinion concerns the name Fatima in particular: the general rules of Islam apply.
Read the rules for choosing a name
This page is an aid to reflection, not a fatwa. For a personal case, ask a person of knowledge.
Writing Fatima in each language
- French
- Fatima, Fatma, Fatimata, Fatou
- English
- Fatima, Fatimah
- Spanish
- Fátima, Fatima
- Turkish
- Fatma, Fatıma
- Arabic
- فَاطِمَة
Similar names
See also
- Khadijaخَدِيجَة “Born before term”; name of the first wife of the Prophet ﷺ
- Zaynabزَيْنَب According to the lexicographers, a tree with a pleasant fragrance; meaning debated
- Ruqayyaرُقَيَّة Diminutive from the root r-q-y: rising, ascent
- Umm Kulthumأُمّ كُلْثُوم “Mother of Kulthum”; kulthum, “with a full, round face”
- Hasanحَسَن “Beautiful, good”: what is fine and right
- Husaynحُسَيْن “The little handsome one”, diminutive of Hasan