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BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Introduction Praise be to Allah subhanahu wa ta ‘ala; we praise Him, seek His help, and seek His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah subhanahu wa ta ‘ala from the evils of our souls and from our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allah subhanahu wa ta ‘ala guides, none can mislead, and whomsoever He misleads, none can guide. I bear witness that there is no […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Previous Studies Except for some scattered articles on the internet and some concise studies found within certain books, we have not come across an independent study on the issue of the breaking of the rib from the perspective of the Ahlus Sunnah. We have found only one study related to the origin of the story of the attack on ‘Ali’s house, which is […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Research Methodology   We collected and traced the narrations used to establish the incident of Fatimah’s rib being broken. We also reviewed the dedicated works on this subject. After cataloguing these narrations, we found that many of them are not relevant to the issue at hand, as some of these narrations are general reports that do not mention anything about Fatimah radiya Llahu […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Preface   The fable of the noble Companions radiya Llahu ‘anhum attacking the daughter of the Prophet, Fatimah radiya Llahu ‘anha, resulting in the breaking of her rib and the miscarriage of her unborn child is one of the fabricated stories that has become, for some people today, a historical certainty. This myth has no basis in authenticity, whether from the perspective of […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   The Myth of the Broken Rib and Clarification of the Dispute   The myth of the broken rib refers to some fabricated narrations that claim that Abu Bakr al Siddiq, ‘Umar, and a group of their supporters among the Companions radiya Llahu ‘anhum and some servants attacked the house of Fatimah al Zahra radiya Llahu ‘anha, set her door on fire, stormed her […]