Gifts of Knowledge

Fāṭimah daughter of al-Qāsim bin Muḥammad bin Yūsuf bin Muḥammad, Ummal-Ḥasan, daughter of our Shaikh, the Imām ʿAlamud-Dīn al-Birzālī.

Her father, Imām al-Birzālī, said, “I took her along to the gatherings of the study of ḥadīth when she was three days old. She had memorised from the Qurʾān and performed Ḥajj and studied ḥadīth from Shaikhs, the number of Shaikhs she heard from reaching 185. She wrote out Ibn Taymiyyah’s Al-Aḥkām and also a complete copy of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by hand herself which she completed a few days before her death.”

And this copy of Bukhārī of hers is in Damascus and is one that is relied on and quoted from.

Her father continued, “She performed Ḥajj and heard ḥadīth on the way to the Ḥijāz and herself narrated ḥadīth in the two Ḥarams.

She was a blessed woman, guarding her obligatory and optional prayers. She used to strive and was eager in doing good deeds. She had compassion and khair and intelligence and knowledge and good which never left her. She was married for about five years and never left her house, I only ever saw things from her that would please me. When I would see her praying I would become pleased and say, ‘I hope that Allaah benefits me through her,’ because she used to pray a complete ṣalāh and strive in making duʿā. She never once asked me for anything from the dunyā not even to buy anything she might need. I benefitted from her in this dunyā and I hope Allaah will benefit me through her in the Hereafter.”

She passed away in the year 731 hijrī at the age of 24, raḥimahallāh.
ʾAʿyān al-ʿAṣr wa ʾAʿwān an-Naṣr, vol. 4, pp. 30-31.