We were informed by Abu’l-Hussain, Muhammed bin Harun al-Zanjani, with regards to what he wrote to me, that hsaid: We were told by Ali bin Abdul-Aziz, that he said: I heard Qasem bin Salam say with regards to the meaning of the saying of the Prophet, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family: «The womb is a shujna from Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He», that he means that it is a common kinship that is entangled like the entangling of veins. The saying of a sayer: «The narration has shujoun [1]» is that some parts of it adhere to other parts. Some from the people of knowledge said: It is said: «Trees that are mutashajjin» if some of them are wrapped around each other. It is also said: Shajna and shijna. Shujn is like a branch that is from a tree. The Prophet, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, has said: Indeed, Fatima is a shujna from me; that which hurts her, hurts me, and that which makes her happy, makes me happy. Allah’s blessings be upon her.

2. We were told of that by Ahmad bin Hasan al-Qattan, that he said: We were told by Ahmad bin Muhammed bin Sa’eed al-Kufi, the servant of the sons of Hashim, that he said: We were informed by Mundhir bin Muhammed, by reading, that he said: We were told by Ja’far bin Sulayman al-Tamimi, that he said: We were told by Isma’eel bin Mahran, from ‘Abaya, from Ibn Abbas, from the Prophet, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, that he said: Indeed, Fatima is a shujna from me; that which hurts her, hurts me, and that which makes her happy, makes me happy. Indeed, Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, is surely angered for the anger of Fatima, and He is pleased for her satisfaction. Allah’s blessings be upon her.