It is related that when the Prophet of Allah (s.a.w.s.) passed away, and Fatemah (s.a.) was oppressed by the people, she became bid-ridden and sick. And her sacred body turned weak & feeble and the skin of her body melted such, that it stuck to her bones and it appeared as if an engraving upon the wall.
It is also related that Fatemah (s.a.) always tied a kerchief of mourning for her father (s.a.w.s.) upon her head and day-by-day her body weakened. Her tears flowed constantly due to his separation and her heart scorched. She remained conscious for an hour and another hour fell unconscious and would always tell her sons Hasan and Husain, "What happened to your father who cherished you much ? The one who sat you upon his back and was most affectionate towards you, where is he ? What happened to your father who did not allow you to even place your feet upon the earth (but always lifted you up with affection) ? I do not see that he would now open the door of the house and step herein and lift you up, in a manner that he lifted both of you up".
She always remained grief-stricken as informed to her by her father (s.a.w.s.), she would remember that the ‘Revelation' had stopped coming into her house, and sometimes remember the separation of her father (s.a.w.s.). At night she would not hear the sweet voice of the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) reciting the Qu'ran, that she had heard nothing else but that until mid-night, then she would turn frightful. She (now) found herself to be sorrowful and indigent, when during the days of the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) she lived with pride and honour. She came to the grave of her father (s.a.w.s.) and recited the following verses, "What would happen ifthe one who smells the sweet fragrance of the grave of Ahmad (s.a.w.s.), then he would never smell any other fragrance of the world; such sorrows flowed upon me that if, it had flown upon the days they would have turned into nights (due to extreme sorrow)". She would also say, "When someone dies his remembrance lessens day by day, but by Allah (s.w.t.), the remembrance of my father increases everyday; I remember that death has made separation between us, I condole myself upon Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s.); then I say to myself that death is our path; and if one does not die today, he shall die tomorrow".
She would also say, "When I desire to see you I come to your grave, I weep I complain but you do not answer me; O the one occupying the grave you have taught me weeping, and your remembrance has parted away all other sorrows; and although you are concealed under the earth; you are not concealed from my grievous heart".
When Amirul Mo’meneen Ali (a.s.) gave the dead-body bath to the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) with a shirt, Fatemah (s.a.) told him, "Hand me over the shirt of the Prophet (s.a.w.s.)". And when she smelt the shirt, she fell down unconscious, thus when Imam Ali (a.s.) saw this, he concealed the shirt from her.