Fatimah was the daughter of Abi Muhammad Sharif Quraysh Ibn Subay' Ibn... al-'Alawi al-Husayni al-Madani al-Baghdadi, and a descendant of Imam al-Husayn Ibn 'Ali ('a). She was alive in the month of Rajab during the year of 560 A.H., and the sister of Aminah al-'Alawi al-Husayni, who is also listed in this collection.

Her Merits

Fatimah was a scholarly, learned, eloquent, erudite, virtuous Shi'ah woman, a jurisprudent, and a transmitter of traditions who was living in Baghdad in the beginning of the seventh century. She was educated by her father, Sharif Quraysh al-Baghdadi (deceased in 640 A.H.). After that she was a student of Shaykh Abu Talib al-Mubarak Ibn 'Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Khudayr al-Sayrafi al-Baghdadi.

She was taught the book Fadl al-Kufa1 along with several others2 whose names are listed at the end of the book with the handwriting of her father, and they recited this book for their teacher.3

• 1. Written by Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad Ibn 'Ali... al-Shajari (d. 455 A.H.).
• 2. These people include, Sharaf al-Nisa' Bint Abi Talib Ibn Mukarram al-'Alawi al­Hasani al-Baghdadi, her brother Muhammad, and her sister Aminah. Sayyid Quraysh Baghdadi has written with his own handwriting at the end of the book Fadl al-Kufah, and this book is one of the handwritten manuscripts in the Zahiriyyah Library in Damascus. There is a photographic copy of this book in the Amir al-Mu'minin Library in Holy Najaf.
• 3. Mustadrak A'yan al-Shi'ah, vol. 3, p. 159.