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1 - The death of the Prophet

Updated: Nov 23, 2022

The Messenger of God died in Aisha's lap in: Monday of Rabi` al-Awwal of the eleventh year of Hijrah

How was the night of the Prophet's death?

The servant of the Messenger of God - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - Anas bin Malik - may God be pleased with him - narrated that while the Muslims were praying Fajr in the mosque - on Mondays, the day in which the Prophet, may the peace and blessings of God be upon him, died - their Imam Abu Bakr - may God be pleased with him - when the Messenger of God - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - came to them, the Muslims rejoiced so much that they were almost tempted in their prayers, Abu Bakr - may God be pleased with him - began to go back, thinking that the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - wanted to pray with them, but he indicated to them to complete your prayers, and he returned to his room, and did not go out after that for another prayer.

And when it was dawn

He sent to Fatima - may God be pleased with her - and told her a secret, so she cried, then he told her a secret and she laughed, In the first, he told her that he would die in his pain, and in the second he told her that she was the first of his family to follow him, Then he sent for al-Hasan and al-Husayn, and he kissed them and prayed for them a good.

Then he called his wives - may God bless him and grant him peace -

He advised them, admonished them, reminded them, and advised the people to pray. Then Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Bakr, brother of the Mother of the Believers, Aisha - may God be pleased with them all - entered, with him a toothpick, the Prophet - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - was relying on Aisha, so the Prophet looked at the toothpick, so the Mother of the Believers took it from her brother and lenient it, and he had in his hand a pile of water, he put his hand in it and then wiped his honorable face from it, and he said: “There is no god but God, Death has troubles.” Then he said: "Oh God, forgive me and make me with the supreme companion." and it was said that he repeated that saying until his honorable soul overflowed to His Creator, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him.

The greatness of the calamity upon the Muslims was the death of the Messenger of God

The misfortune blew away the minds of the bravest of men, and astonished the hearts of the wise among them.

The position of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab - may God be pleased with him-

How do you know what Omar Ibn Al-Khattab was in his intellect, sobriety, wisdom and inspiration? He stood when the disaster brought him out of his consciousness, saying: “Men of the hypocrites claim that the Messenger of God died, The Messenger of God is not dead. He says that with certainty, he does not really believe that he died, Omar says: But he went to his Lord, as Musa bin Imran went, and he was absent from his people for forty nights, then he returned to them after it was said that he had died. By God, the Messenger of God will return, Let them cut off the hands and feet of men who claim that he is dead.”

Anas bin Malik says:

“When the Messenger of God died, the city was darkened, to the extent that we did not look at each other, one of us used to extend his hand and not see it, and we did not finish burying him until we denied our hearts.”

The position of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq - may God be pleased with him -

And while they were like that, when the friend Abu Bakr came - may God be pleased with him and make him happy, and reward him with much good for what he gave to the nation of Islam - Al-Siddiq came from Al-Sanh (an area outside the city) after the news reached him there, None of us imagined that a Companion would die of grief, worry, and anguish at the parting of the Messenger, There is no doubt that we will all say that he is the truthful, the most loving of the Messenger of God, and the closest of men to the heart of the Messenger of God, Abu Bakr came to his horse from his house from Al sanh" place" and he stayed at the mosque of the Messenger of God, so he did not speak to the people, and entered the mosque, and from there he entered the house of Aisha, where the Messenger of God died on her lap, so he went to the Messenger of God while he was covered with a garment, so he revealed his face, then he bent down on him, kissed him and wept,Inevitable expressions, hot hot came down on Al-Siddiq cheek, The beloved of his life, the pearl of his heart, the coolness of his eye, Then Al-Siddiq said with his heart breaking: “you by my father and my mother, oh massenger of God, God does not unite you with two deaths, and as for the death that was prescribed for you, you have died.”


Then he went out to people

To proceed, whoever of you used to worship Muhammad, then Muhammad has died, and whoever among you worshiped God, then God is alive and does not die. With dexterity, tact and success, he recited the noble verse:

{وَمَا مُحَمَّدٌ إِلاَّ رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ أَفَإِنْ مَاتَ أَوْ قُتِلَ انْقَلَبْتُمْ عَلَى أَعْقَابِكُمْ وَمَنْ يَنْقَلِبْ عَلَى عَقِبَيْهِ فَلَنْ يَضُرَّ اللهَ شَيْئًا وَسَيَجْزِي اللهُ الشَّاكِرِينَ} [آل عمران:

{Muhammad is only a messenger, messengers have passed before him, If he dies or is killed, will you turn on your heels, and whoever turns on his heels will not harm God at all, And Allah will reward the grateful} [Al-Imran:

The position of Anas bin Malik - may God be pleased with him and make him satisfied -

Historians and biographers have reported on the authority of Anas bin Malik - may God be pleased with him - several Hadiths he said on the day of the death of the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, of that, what Ibn Sa’d reported in “al-Tabaqat al-Kubra” that he said: “I witnessed him on the day he entered the city, I have never seen a better or brighter day than the day he entered upon us, and I witnessed it the day he died, I have not seen a day that was uglier or darker than the day on which he, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, died, Here Anas - may God be pleased with him - expresses his psychological state on the day of the death of the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him.

The saying of Mrs. Aisha, the mother of the believers, may God be pleased with her

Mrs. Aisha - may God be pleased with her - mentions that the Prophet - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - in his last moments was on her lap, and he was heavy, so the Mother of the Believers, may God be pleased with her, says here: so I went to look at his face, and behold, his sight had risen, and he was saying: Rather, the companion is higher than Paradise, so I went to look at his face, and his eyes widened without blinking, and he was saying, but the higher companion of the heaven, I said: You were given the choice, so you chose, by Him who sent you with the truth.” And here the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, died, And if someone were to say how old was the mother of the believers, Aisha, on the day the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, died, then the answer is that she was 18 years old at that time, and God knows best.


People woke up and started to cry a lot

The verse was a consolation for the believers, consolation for the patient, and a reward for the thankful, and the verse reached the ears of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, Omar says: “By God, it is only that I heard Abu Bakr reciting it, so I Aqart (Aqart: if he stayed in his place, he did not advance or retard out of fear, regret, or shame) until my feet could not carry me, and until I fell to the ground, when I heard him reciting it, I knew that the Prophet had died.


How old was the Prophet when he died?

What is proven is that the Messenger of God - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - died in the year 11 of the blessed Hijra, which scholars estimated was the year 633, from the birth of Christ, peace be upon him, but his age is a matter of dispute among historians. Many narrations have been narrated about his age, including those who said he was sixty years old, and they said that he was sixty-three years old, and he is the most famous, and they said that he had reached sixty-five years. For example, three hadiths came in the Two Sahihs, all of which are authentic, It tells how long the Prophet - upon him be peace and blessings be upon him - lived at the time of his death, from that hadith in Sahih Muslim that says: “The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, was arrested, He was sixty-three years old, and Abu Bakr died when he was sixty-three, and Omar was killed when he was sixty-three, this hadith determines the age of the Prophet - upon him be peace and blessings - and the age of his two companions, may God be pleased with them.


What is the disease that the Prophet died of?

The Messenger of God - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - was afflicted with a severe fever, three months after the Farewell Pilgrimage, and at that time he was staying in the house of the mother of the believers, Maymouna, so he asked to nurse him in the house of Mrs. Aisha, may God be pleased with her. She used to recite al-Mu’awwidhat permanently above his head, and he wiped his hand on his head for her blessing, and his fever reached a high degree, and when death approached him, he used to unclench his hand - upon him be blessings and peace - He takes a bowl of water and wipes his face with it because of the severity of the fever that afflicted him, and says: “There is no god but God, death has intoxications, then he straightened his hand, and began to say: In the highest companion, until he caught and his hand tilted.


The suspicion of the Prophet's death poisoned and who is the one who poisoned the Messenger?

The concerning the poisoned death of the Messenger of God, it was mentioned in the Two Sahihs that three years before his death he had eaten a poisoned sheep, she was poisoned by a Jewish woman named Zainab bint al-Harith, wife of Salam ibn Mishkam, the Messenger of God had eaten a bite of it, then spewed it out but did not swallow it, but he may have been affected by it, and he was cupped after eating it, and he asked those who ate it to do cupping as well, some of them died, and it came in a hadith about him, peace and blessings be upon him: He said in the pain in which he died: I can still find some of the food I ate in Khaibar, this is the time to cut my aorta.”


Does the Prophet considered a martyr?

There were several sayings about whether the Messenger of God was a martyr or not?, including the saying of Ibn Masoud - may God be pleased with him - after the death of the Messenger of God: “If I swear by God nine, that the Messenger of God - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - was killed is more beloved to me than swearing one oath, this is because God Almighty took him as a prophet and made him a martyr.” It was also mentioned in the hadith of the Messenger of God that, the Jewish woman who poisoned him told him after he asked her about the reason for putting the poison on him: “If you were a prophet, what I did would not harm you, and if you were a king, I would relieve the people from you.”

Al-Zarqani said that

It is a miracle of miracles. Where God wanted to prove the prophethood of the Prophet Muhammad, the poison did not harm him at the time, and he wanted to honor him with martyrdom, so he died of the poison later on.

Did the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, choose death over life?

And when the illness of the Messenger of God intensified upon him, he went out to the people leaning on al-Abbas and Ali - may God be pleased with them - so he prayed and addressed them, and explained to them in his speech that God - the Almighty - He gave him a choice between this world and the Hereafter, so he chose the Hereafter, and that is in his saying: “A servant was shown to him the world and its adornment, so he chose the Hereafter. He said: No one understood it except Abu Bakr, so his eyes shed tears and he wept.”


What do we benefit from the death of the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace?

1- When some people hear this, they say, “What did I benefit from?” If only he lived to our time? What is my fault that I did not see him or sit with him or give me personal advice?

And the response to this thought or this suspicion?

In the life of the Messenger of God - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - people were divided into three classes, there is no fourth of them, with their colors according to their races, lineages, and social levels, according to their nationalities and mother tongues, to me (believers in the God of Heaven and in this great Messenger - and disbelievers - and hypocrites) And you now, can you classify yourself from any of these categories (believer - infidel - hypocrite)? If you really can, then know that what is in your hands of the treasures of the Qur’an and the purified Sunnah is as if you met the Messenger of God over and over, and the days of the Messenger appeared of the three types and The presence of the Messenger of God did not prevent them from expressing what is in their souls. Do you forget the saying of God - come -

(أَمْ حَسِبَ الَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ أَن لَّن يُخْرِجَ اللَّهُ أَضْغَانَهُمْ (29)

(Or do those in whose hearts there is a disease reckon, that God will not bring out their grudges (29)

And Allah says

(وَلَوْ نَشَاءُ لَأَرَيْنَاكَهُمْ فَلَعَرَفْتَهُم بِسِيمَاهُمْ ۚ وَلَتَعْرِفَنَّهُمْ فِي لَحْنِ الْقَوْلِ ۚ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ أَعْمَالَكُمْ (30))

(And if We wished, We would have shown them to you, so you would have recognized them by their marks, And that you may know them in the melody of speech. And God knows your deeds (30))

We are witnessed, just as the Messenger witnessed the early Muslims.

2- Every living thing will perish, but you can say that there are those who live forever, as Cryonic taught. No one knows their end until now, and no one knows how they live after being brought back to life, so to speak, and no one has studied their mental/psychological health after returning to life, And did they return a mind only to a robot body? Or did they return with the same devices that they may have found solutions to their physical ailments in another era than those in which they died. We are not talking about the science revolution, we are talking about what God Almighty told us,

(وَمَا جَعَلْنَا لِبَشَرٍۢ مِّن قَبْلِكَ ٱلْخُلْدَ ۖ أَفَإِيْن مِّتَّ فَهُمُ ٱلْخَٰلِدُونَ(الأنبياء - 34)

And he is the most truthful of those who say, as He, the Most High, says (And We have not appointed for mankind before you immortality. So if you die then they will be immortals) (Al-Anbiya - 34)Note: There are no human beings who were immortal in this world before the Messenger of God - and present (the death of the Messenger of God) and in the future (there is no one among us who will remain immortal) this is what the Lord of the Worlds says, and we believe Him, and He is the most truthful of those who say: this is not skepticism about the revolution in science that is now present in the West, but rather a belief in which we believe and we owe it to the Lord of the Worlds.

3 - The cause of death does not matter, as it is said that the causes are multiple and death is one, It is not the final Messenger who weeps over his leadership, leadership, wife or son, but rather the supreme companion, rather the supreme companion.

4 - Notice the words of the scholars: the Messenger of God died while he was the son of such and such (his honorable life in this world) are we truly the children of this world, or is it the passage of the worldly abode? As Muslims, we believe that we have three abode that we must pass through: the abode of the world, the abode of the grave or the isthmus, and then the abode of the hereafter, Each of us has his first home (the home of the world: he is her son, and the mother has children who live and whose children die, whose sons live and others who die at an early age) Thus we walked in the world and understood that.

5- I will not say the composure of Abi Bakr Al-Siddiq or the appearance of the hypocrites and apostates, or the psychological imbalance of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab - may God be pleased with the Companions of course) but I say: the difference in mental / psychological health regarding death, and the death of the dear, but rather the death of the dearest of people, It is a decisive moment in life, when those who believe believe and those who disbelieve, and it is what separates our personalities and remembers the hadith of the dearest people, the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace, this is a true hadith. He saw a woman crying for a boy, so he advised her, and she said: Get away from me, for you have not been afflicted with the same calamity as I did, she went to his house, but she did not find a doorman at his door, so she sought permission from him and told him that she did not know him. He, peace be upon him, said to her: Patience is only at the first shock.

We ask God for recovery from the death of the dearest people to us, but it is God’s Sunnah in His creation,, The Messenger of God died, but he is alive in our hands, Sunnah, Shari’a, and Manhaj.

(إنا نحن نحيي الموتى ونكتب ما قدموا وآثارهم)

It is We who give life to the dead, and write their precedes, and their footprints.)

6 - The Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - died in Aisha's lap - what is this death? What does the Lord of the Worlds want in terms of the death of the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers in this intimate, warm, marital manner? The love of husbands for their wives is one of the inestimable blessings, or, if the expression is correct, the exchange of love, affection, and mercy by spouses until the time of going to the final resting place is a heavenly message to preserve homes, not in their external form in front of people, spidery from the inside, Rather, in the form, spirit, and essence that God - the Almighty - wanted for this Muhammadan nation, and of course God is Most High and Knowing the best.

Related studies
Reasons why people react differently to death

Dealing with death, especially the death of someone you love, is one of the most stressful experiences you can go through. Everyone reacts differently to death, and it's only natural to feel like you're riding a roller coaster of different emotions. How you react to death can be affected by many things:

The type of relationship you have with the person

A new loss may remind you of past losses you experienced, which you may grieve again. Your gender: Men are more likely to sometimes express their grief through physical activity. Girls often want to share their feelings with others, talk about what's going on, or cry more openly.

Your cultural background

Different cultural groups deal with grief in different ways, including how to express your grief through rituals and ceremonies, and different rules about what is considered respectful. Your age: Younger children may not understand that the person is not coming back or why. When you get older, you realize that the person is gone forever, but you may still find it hard to come to grips with that fact.

When the shock wears off a bit, you will likely start to grieve. Whatever your experience, don't stress about how you will handle it. Everyone grieves their way, including:

physically

Headache, feeling tired, muscle aches and nausea.

Emotionally

sadness, anger, disbelief, despair, guilt and loneliness. Mentally: forgetfulness, lack of concentration, confusion, and poor memory.

behaviourally

Changes in sleep patterns, dreams or nightmares, or in your appetite. You may or may not want to go out or be around people. You may also experience unusual emotional reactions or feel tearful.

socially

Some friends may avoid you because they don't know what to say or how to help you. You may also feel pressure to be strong for the sake of family or friends, or you may not want to see anyone.

spiritually

Your beliefs may be challenged and you may struggle to believe in things you once believed.

And we benefit from the above

We are human beings, different in social status, color, gender, cultural mental background, and so on. Our grief or even our joys cannot be like others, except that some small societies have the same way of grieving, and the more cultural mental backgrounds differ, the more forms of grief differ. This is how life taught us .

May you be blessed alive and dead, O Messenger of God - Oh God, give us a drink from his honorable hand at the basin - Oh God, gather us with him in the highest paradise.



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