The Hadith are the Muslim traditions and accounts of Muhammad's life, and it's a significant part of the religion outside of the Quran. And she is married to Muhammad at a very, very young age, and there's some debate about how young she actually was, but as we'll see, she also figures prominently in this narrative and in this schism that develops between the Sunni and the Shia, and the Sunni and the Shia view her differently. So let's go back to the timeline here. So as Muhammad's life nears its end in 632, in previous videos, we talk about his final pilgrimage to Mecca, and then on his way back to Medina, at a place like Gather Qum, he gives a sermon, a sermon that is especially very important to the Shia. According to that short sermon, and Gather Qum, gather literally means pond or small stream, so it's the sermon at the pond Qum, there's one quotation that Shia consider to be very, very important, where Muhammad says, of whomsoever I had been Mola, Ali here is to be his Mola, and the word Mola means protector or leader, or it could mean guardian or people that you are close to, and the Shia view this as clear evidence that Muhammad intended Ali to be his successor. Many members of the Sunni tradition take a slightly different interpretation, where they say Mola doesn't necessarily have to mean protector or leader, it could mean companion or friend or member that is close to, and so they don't view this as strongly of evidence, but in the Shia tradition, the event at Gather Qum is actually a significant event, and it is even a holiday, so that's the evidence that Shia point to as why Ali should be the successor. But then Muhammad dies, and according to the tradition, while his funeral was being planned by his family, the close companions were meeting and discussing who should succeed Muhammad, and the close companions decide that it should be Abu Bakr.