Then the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) arose to leave and Fatemah (s.a.) requested for a maid to help her in the household affairs. The Prophet (s.a.w.s.) replied, “Do you intend something better than a maid”? She answered in the affirmative. The Prophet (s.a.w.s.) continued, “Then recite daily thirty three times SubhanAllah, thirty three times Alhamdolillah, and thirty four times Allaho Akbar. This equals hundred exaltations and will be a means of bestowing a thousand gifts in the weighing scales (in Qiyamah). O Fatemah (s.a.) ! If you recite this every morning, Allah (s.w.t.) will fulfil your desires of this world as well as the hereafter”.
It is related in Misbahul Mutahajjid of Shaikh Toosi that the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) married Fatemah (s.a.) to Imam Ali (a.s.) on the first day of the month of Zilhajj. While some opine that it was thesixth of the month of Zilhajj.[86]
[86] Anas
bin Malik relates that Abu Bakr paid a visit to the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) and seated himself before him. Then he said, "You know all about my loyalty and my precedence in accepting Islam. I have done this and that ……..". The Prophet (s.a.w.s.) asked, "What do you want", and he replied, "I have come to propose for the hand of Fatemah (s.a.). At this the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) did not say a word and turned his face away from him. Abu Bakr came to Umar and said, "I am done to death". Umar asked him why and he told him that he had proposed for the hand of Fatemah (s.a.) but the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) turned his face away from him. Umar said, "You just look after the things here and I shall go to the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) to propose for the hand of Fatemah (s.a.)". But the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) turned his face away from him too. (Muhibuddin Tabari, “Riyazun Nazarah”; Imam Nisai, “Al Khasais”; Muttaqi al Hindi, “Kanzal Ummal”). The strangest case was the proposal of Abdul Rahman bin Awf. He came to the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) saying, "If you give Fatemah (s.a.) to me in marriage, I will make her a dower of one hundred Camels with loads of precious material from Eygpt alongwith ten thousand dinars". Hearing this the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) was enraged and threw a handful of gravel at him saying, "You thought I was a servant of wealth that you express pride in it"? (Sibt Ibn Jazwi, “Tazkiratul Khawas al Ummah”) Such a person is considered one of the “Asharah Mubasharah” (one of the ten men promised Paradise by the Prophet) by the Ahlus Sunnah ! The Prophet (s.a.w.s.) truly said, "If Ali was nor born, Fatemah had none of her set (to marry with)". (Al Manawi, “Kunuzul Haqaeq”).