The story before she got married with Ali r.a. ...
Fatima was 18yrs old, so the men starting coming to her father requesting Fatima in marriage. They all wanted to be related to the Prophet. Abu Bakr, then Umar ibn alKhattab, then Abdul Rahman ibn Auf all came asking for Fatima's hand in marriage, and the Prophet in a nice way turned them back.
The Ansar then started telling Ali why don’t you request Fatima. He said, 'I don’t have much'. They said, ‘But the Prophet loves you’. So he went and sat in front of the Prophet peace be upon him and did not say a word.
The Prophet pbuh said, ‘why are you silent O Ali?’
He did not say anything.
The Prophet pbuh said, ‘maybe you came to ask for Fatima's hand in marriage?’
He said, ‘yes that’s it, that’s it’.
The Prophet pbuh said ‘do you have anything to marry her with?’ He said, ‘no O messenger of Allah’.
The Prophet pbuh said, ‘do you not have a dir3 (shield) that I gave you once?'
He said ‘yes, but its not worth more than 250 Dirham.'
The Prophet pbuh, ‘I will let you marry her with it’.
He brought the dir3 to the Prophet, and the Prophet pbuh sold it for him and came with 250 dirham, and so he gave a portion of it to Bilal and said, ‘O Bilal, buy with this some perfume for Fatima’ and he gave the rest of the money to Ummu Salama and said, ‘buy for Fatima the clothes and necessities of a bride’. See how the Prophet pbuh is dealing with this, his daughter is going to be a wife.
Ali came after a day or two and said, “O Messenger of Allah, I paid the mahr, so when am I going to marry Fatima?” (he was embarrassed).
The Prophet peace be upon him replied, ‘today if you want’.
He said, ‘yes, O Messenger of Allah’.
So they invited the people and slaughtered an animal. The Prophet pbuh said, “if a person comes to you of whom you are satisfied with his deen and his character then get him married, if you do not there will be fitnah on the earth and great fasaad (evil)’.
This is in our time now. Fatima was riding on a camel, and Uthman was directing it. And the sahaba had their swords raised up as a form of celebration. And the women were surrounding Fatima, and some anasheed were being sung. Afterwards, Ali and Fatima entered their simple house which was further out from the Madina (not in the city center) because that was all Ali could afford.
As they were about to enter the Prophet said, ‘O Ali don’t get up to anything (don’t get close to her) until I come to you’.
Ali says, ‘so I sat on one side of the house and Fatima sat on the other side’.
The Prophet came and placed his hand on her hand, and he began to make du’a, he said,
‘O Allah, Fatima is a piece of me, O Allah Fatima is beloved to my heart, O Allah Ali is my brother and the most beloved to me, O Allah give them Baraka (an increase in all that is good) and place on them baraka and unite them on good, O Ali place your hand on Fatima’s head and say, ‘O Allah I ask you for the good in her, and for the good that she was created for, and I seek refuge in you from her evil, and the evil that she was created for, O Ali, may Allah place baraka among you’
(Taken from islamway.org)
I do really wanna have a love story like Fatimah’s, Rasulullah’s daughter.
Do you know if Fatimah has loved Ali before they got married?
But she never showed it to Ali until Allah united them together into a marriage bond.
Maybe only Allah who knows her feeling.
Betapa Fatimah pintar menjaga perasaannya dan bersabar menjaga harga dirinya sebagai seorang wanita. Betapa Fatimah begitu percaya akan takdir Tuhan tanpa harus gundah akan rasa cintanya pada Ali. Dan betapa Allah berbaik hati memberikan Fatimah rasa cinta kepada orang yang tepat, orang yang memang Dia takdirkan menjalani separuh agama bersamanya.
(Taken from my friend's blog)