بكر بالويل والثبور وقال : ليت أمي لم تلدني 4 . فقال عمر : عجبا للناس كيف ولوك أمورهم !

Bakr called out in woe and ruin and said: Would that my mother had not borne me! [4] And 'Umar said: How strange of the people — how did they put you in charge of their affairs!

وأنت شيخ قد خرفت تجزع لغضب امرأة وتفرح برضاها وما لمن غضب امرأة وقاما وخرجا 5 .

And you are an old man grown senile, who is distressed at a woman's anger and rejoices at her being pleased. And what is there for one whom a woman has angered? And the two of them rose and went out. [5]

فلما خرجا قالت فاطمة عليها السلام لأمير المؤمنين عليه السلام : قد صنعت ما أردت ؟

And when the two of them had gone out, Fatima, peace be upon her, said to the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him: Have you done what you wished?

قال : نعم ، قالت : فهل أنت صانع ما آمرك ؟

He said: Yes. She said: Then will you do what I command you?

قال : نعم ، قالت : فإني أنشدك الله أن يصليا على جنازتي ولا يقوما على قبري 6 .

He said: Yes. She said: Then I adjure you by God that they should not pray over my bier nor stand at my grave. [6]

وروي أنها قالت لأسماء بنت عميس : إني قد استقبحت ما يصنع بالنساء أنه يطرح على المرأة الثوب فيصفها لمن رأى وقالت : إني نحلت وذهب لحمي ألا تجعلين لي شيئا يسترني ، قالت أسماء : إني إذ كنت بأرض الحبشة رأيتهم يصنعون شيئا ، أفلا اصنع لك فإن أعجبك أصنع لك ؟

And it is related that she said to Asma' bint 'Umays: I have found ugly what is done with women — that a cloth is thrown over the woman and it describes her to whoever sees. And she said: I have wasted away and my flesh has gone. Will you not make for me something to cover me? Asma' said: When I was in the land of Abyssinia I saw them make a thing. Shall I not make it for you, and if it pleases you I shall make it for you?

قالت : نعم ، فدعت بسرير فأكبته لوجهه ثم دعت بجرائد فشدته على قوائمه ثم جللته ثوبا ، فقالت هكذا رأيتهم يصنعون ، فقالت سلام الله عليها : اصنعي لي مثله أستريني ، سترك الله من النار 7 .

She said: Yes. So she called for a bier and turned it upon its face, then called for palm-branches and bound them to its legs, then covered it with a cloth; and she said: Thus I saw them do. So she said, the peace of God be upon her: Make the like of it for me; cover me — may God cover you from the Fire. [7]

وروي أنها لما رأت ما صورته أسماء تبسمت ، وما رؤيت متبسمة إلا يومئذ وقالت : ما أحسن هذا وأجمله لا تعرف به المرأة من الرجل 8 .

And it is related that when she saw what Asma' had fashioned she smiled; and she was not seen smiling except on that day. And she said: How good this is and how fair! By it the woman is not known from the man. [8]

[ عيادة نساء المهاجرين والأنصار لها وما قالت في جوابهن ] في الاحتجاج قال سويد بن غفلة : لما مرضت سيدتنا فاطمة عليها السلام المرضة التي توفيت فيها ، دخلت عليها نساء المهاجرين والأنصار ليعدنها فقلن لها :

[The visit of the women of the Emigrants and the Ansar to her, and what she said in answer to them] In al-Ihtijaj, Suwayd b. Ghafala said: When our Lady Fatima, peace be upon her, fell ill with the illness in which she died, the women of the Emigrants and the Ansar came in upon her to visit her, and said to her: