Fatima bint Mundhir

There are 21 hadiths in Sahih Bukhari where her name is mentioned, in two it goes directly: in the hadith 922, in the book 11, and in the hadith 5783, in the book 76.^[4]

In Sahih Muslim there are 9 hadiths, where in the hadith 5740 in the book 39 Fatima bint Muhdhir appeared together with her daughter Urwa bint Zubair.^[5]

In the following collections Sunan Abu Dawood there are 5 hadiths, in Jami' at-Tirmidhi there are 3 hadiths, the same number in Al-Sunan al-Sughra and in Sunan ibn Majah there are 4 hadiths.^[3]

Fatima bint Mundhir was married to her cousin Hisham ibn ‘Urwah ibn al-Zubayr, who was a known scholar in hadiths and memorized many hadiths from his aunt Aisha.^[6] Interestingly enough, she memorized the bigger number of the hadiths than her husband, due her learning from Asma bint Abu Bakr. Despite being a hadith scholar, she became one of the great female representatives of the tabi'un generation, she achieved the title of faqih (jurist).^[7]