...I would not permit, I would not give permission, at all. I would not give permission at all, except if Ali bin Abi Thalib divorces my daughter first. (Jmi al-Ushl, juz XII, 162, hadis number: 9026)

EXTREME anger. That was the Prophet Muhammads reaction when he heard that his daughter, Fatimah, was to be made a secondary wife by Ali bin Abi Thalib. The Prophet is said to have hurried into a mosque, climbed the minaret and shouted out the words i