Only child of Muhammad and his first wife, Khadīja (q.v.), to survive their deaths. Fātima is not mentioned by name in the Qurān but the classical exegetical tradition (see exegesis of the quran: classical and medieval) has associated certain verses with her and with her husband and children. Particularly in Shī"ī Islam, the figure of Fātima as the closest blood link (see blood and blood clot; kinship) to the Prophet himself, generated a hagiographical literature as well as practices of devotion and supplication (see shIism and the quran)