‘Āishah meriwayatkan, “Ketika Nabi ﷺ terbaring di pembaringan kematiannya, dengan semua isteri baginda hadir, puterinya Fāṭimah datang ke hadapan, berjalan sebagaimana cara Rasulullah ﷺ berjalan.

‘Āishah  narrates, “As the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم lay on his deathbed, with all of his wives present, his daughter Fāṭimah  came forward, walking just as the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم would walk.

Baginda ﷺ menyambutnya dengan berkata, "Selamat datang, wahai puteriku tersayang." Kemudian baginda mendudukkannya di sisi baginda dan membisikkan sesuatu kepadanya yang menyebabkan Fāṭimah menangis. Baginda kemudian membisikkan satu lagi rahsia kepadanya, lalu membuatkannya tertawa. Saya bertanya kepadanya apa yang menyebabkan dia menangis, tetapi dia menjawab, "Saya tidak akan sekali-kali mendedahkan rahsia Rasulullah ﷺ." Saya belum pernah melihat kegembiraan dan kesedihan begitu rapat bersatu seperti yang saya lihat pada hari itu. Maka apabila dia menangis, saya berkata kepadanya, "Rasulullah ﷺ mengistimewakan kamu dengan kata-katanya, bukan kami, dan kemudian kamu menangis?" Saya bertanya lagi apa yang baginda katakan, tetapi dia menjawab, "Saya tidak akan sekali-kali mendedahkan rahsia Rasulullah ﷺ." Apabila baginda ﷺ wafat, saya bertanya lagi kepadanya, dan dia berkata bahawa baginda memberitahunya, "Jibril biasa menyemak al-Qur'an bersamaku sekali setiap tahun, dan tahun ini dia menyemaknya dua kali bersamaku. Aku tidak dapat memahami daripada ini melainkan bahawa masaku telah tiba, dan kamulah yang pertama daripada keluargaku yang akan menyusul aku." Fāṭimah berkata, "Saya menangis mendengarnya, lalu baginda ﷺ dengan lembut berkata kepadaku, 'Tidakkah engkau gembira menjadi ratu orang-orang beriman [di dalam Syurga]?' Dan itulah yang menyebabkan saya tertawa." Imam al-Nawawī (w. 1277) menegaskan bahawa ini sebenarnya dua ramalan dalam satu. Pertama, baginda ﷺ meramalkan bahawa penyakit ini, dan bukan mana-mana penyakit lain sebelumnya, adalah tanda bahawa masa baginda telah tiba, dan bahawa Fāṭimah yang masih muda—ketika itu berusia dalam lingkungan dua puluhan—akan meninggal dunia sebelum mana-mana ahli keluarga baginda yang lain.

He صلى الله عليه وسلم received her, saying, ‘Welcome, my dear daughter.’ He then sat her down beside him and uttered a secret to her which caused Fāṭimah to weep. He then uttered another secret to her, making her laugh. I asked her what made her cry, but she said, ‘I would never disclose the Messenger of Allah’s صلى الله عليه وسلم secret.’ I had never seen a joy and grief so closely as I saw on that day, so I said to her when she wept, ‘The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم privileges you with his words, and not us, and then you weep?’ I asked her again what he said, but she responded, ‘I would never disclose the Messenger of Allah’s صلى الله عليه وسلم secret.’ When he صلى الله عليه وسلم died, I asked her again, and she said he told her, ‘Gabriel used to review the Qur’an with me one time each year, and he reviewed it twice with me this year. I cannot understand from this except that my time has arrived, and you will be the first of my family to catch up with me.’ Fāṭimah said, ‘I cried at this, and so he discreetly said to me, ‘Are you not pleased to be the queen of the believers [in Paradise]?’ And that is what caused me to laugh.’”288 Imam al-Nawawī (d. 1277) points out that this is actually two prophecies in one. The first is that he صلى الله عليه وسلم foretold that this sickness, and not any other illness before it, was a harbinger that his time had come, and that the young Fāṭimah—in her early twenties at that time—would die before any other member of his family.