Volume 4, Book 56, Number 819:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Once Fatima came walking and her gait resembled the gait of the Prophet . The Prophet said,
“Welcome, O my daughter!” Then he made her sit on his right or on his left side, and then he told her
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a secret and she started weeping. I asked her, “Why are you weeping?” He again told her a secret and
she started laughing. I said, “I never saw happiness so near to sadness as I saw today.” I asked her
what the Prophet had told her. She said, “I would never disclose the secret of Allah’s Apostle .” When
the Prophet died, I asked her about it. She replied. “The Prophet said.) ‘Every year Gabriel used to re –
vise the Qur’an with me once only, but this year he has done so twice. I think this portends my death,
and you will be the first of my family to follow me.’ So I started weeping. Then he said. ‘Don’t you like
to be the mistress of all the ladies of Paradise or the mistress of all the lady believers? So I laughed for
that.”