Fatima, who was raised and educated by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), acquired from him both such personal characteristics of his as modesty and decency, on the one hand, and his physical qualities such as the way he walked and spoke, on the other. She adopted her father's life style and lived a simple life like him. One day when Fatima was tired of grinding flour by hand and her husband Ali got tired of drawing water out from the well by the bucket and carrying it, they decided to ask Prophet Muhammad for help. Fatima had heard that there was a prisoner of war in Medina, and she went to her father saying that she needed a domestic servant who could help her family with household chores. Prophet Muhammad said to her that he was planning to employ that particular servant for the needs of the poor Muslims who did not have a home and used to spend nights in the mosque, and so he could not give him to their service. He also said, however, that when she went to bed, she should say subhan-Allah, alhamdulillah, and Allah-akbar thirty-three times each, which would be better than having the servant that she had asked for.

Because of her good qualities, Prophet Muhammad would be very happy when he saw Fatima and would warmly welcome her, standing, then kissing her on the cheek, complimenting her and seating her either next to himself or in his own place. Accordingly, when her father visited her in her house, Fatima would treat him the same way he treated her -with kindness and great respect. Similarly, when Prophet Muhammad would leave the city for travel, she would be the last one among the family members to say goodbye, and the first one he would see when he returned to his family. Prophet Muhammad would also say that, among all women, Fatima was the most beloved one to him, and Ali was his favorite among all men. He was once reported to have said, "Fatima is a part of me; whoever makes her happy makes me happy, and whoever makes her sad, saddens me," and "An angel has come to me and promised that Fatima will be the prominent woman among the inhabitants of Paradise." In another instance, when he enumerated the highest ranking women among the people of Paradise, he first started with his wife Khadija and Fatima; then he mentioned Asiya (the Egyptian Pharaoh's wife) and Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Another important example of how much Prophet Muhammad loved his daughter is the great reaction he showed against the relatives of Abu Jahl (or, by some accounts, Ali himself) when they asked him for his permission to marry Abu Jahl's daughter Juwairiyya to Ali. On this occasion, the Prophet said that Fatima was a part of himself, and he did not want her to be sad, and that the daughter of the messenger of Allah and the daughter of the enemy of Allah could not live under the same roof; that although he could not make this marriage unlawful (haram) because Allah made marriage lawful (halal), he would not allow this to happen, nor permit Ali to marry another woman unless he was divorced from Fatima. When reacting that way, one of the concerns of Prophet Muhammad was that he was afraid his daughter would not be able to keep her temperance. On the other hand, the Prophet also said that his other son-in-law, Abu al-‘As, had kept his promise, which implies that Abu al-‘As had promised that he would not marry someone else while he was married to the Prophet's daughter Zainab. Similarly, this also implies that Ali, too, had promised not to marry another woman, but that he had forgotten about his promise. After this incident, Ali never married another woman while Fatima was still alive, nor did he take any concubine. The fact that Prophet Muhammad would frequently visit them in their home and sit in between them indicates the degree of his love for both his daughter and her husband, which made them even more attached to each other. They even would sometimes argue that the Prophet liked one more than the other, which indicates that they both were sure about their privileged places in his heart.

Fatima, too, frequently visited her father and gladly helped him out with domestic needs. For example, one day in the year when Mecca was conquered, Prophet Muhammad was taking a bath in his house, and Fatima held the curtain around him, which shows the degree of their closeness to each other. Significantly, Prophet Muhammad once covered Fatima, Ali and their children, Hassan and Hussein, under his coat and prayed to Allah saying, "O Allah! These are my family (Ahl al-bayt), please keep them away from evil and make them pure." Another important point about Fatima is that the Prophet's lineage continued via her children and their descendants only.

On the other hand, there are 18 hadiths that were reported from Fatima, all of which are taken into al-Kutub al-Sitta (the Six Books); and two of them are in both Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. The people who reported from her the hadiths she had heard from her father include Ali, Hassan and Hussein, Aisha, Umm Salama, Salma, the wife Umm Rafi' who was the servant of Prophet Muhammad, Anas ibn Malik and others. In addition, Hussein's daughter Fatima and some other scholars reported hadiths of the mursal kind from her.