They are my family and with them I found shelter. A man then said: "You owe me three Dirhams." The Prophet sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam said: "Fadl, pay him the money." He went on saying: "I admonish you to be good to al-Ansar (the Helpers). He resumed his first speech about enmity and some other things. Again he returned to the pulpit and sat on it. Then he descended, and performed the noon prayer. He whom I have ever blasphemed his honour, here I am offering my honour so that he may avenge himself." Then he offered himself and invited the people to repay any injuries he might have inflicted on them, saying: "He whom I have ever lashed his back, I offer him my back so that he may avenge himself on me. He said: "The curse of Allah falls upon the Jews and Christians for they have made their Prophets' tombs places of worship." Then he said: "Do not make my tomb a worshipped idol." He entered it band-headed, sat on the pulpit and made a speech to the people who were gathering together around him. Then he felt well enough to enter the Mosque. "Pour out on me seven Qirab (water skin pots) of various water wells so that I may go out to meet people and talk to them." So they seated him in a container (usually used for washing) and poured out water on him till he said: "That is enough. On Wednesday, five days before he died the Prophet's temperature rose so high signalling the severness of his disease. It was there that he spent the last week of his life.ĭuring that period, 'A'ishah used to recite al-Mu'awwidhat (Chapters 113 and 114 of the Qur'an) and other supplications which he has already taught her. Head banded as he was, he dragged his feet till he came into her abode. He moved to 'A'ishah's room leaning - while he was walking - on al-Fadl ibn al-'Abbas and 'Ali ibn Abi Talib. So they allowed him to stay wherever he wished. When his sickness grew severe he asked his wives: "Where shall I stay tomorrow?" or "Where shall I stay?" They understood what he wanted. The total number of his sick days were either thirteen of fourteen. He led the Muslims in prayer for eleven days though he was sick. On the way back he had a headache, his temperature rose so high that the heat effect could be felt over his headband. On Monday the 29th of Safar in the eleventh year of Hijrah, he participated in funeral rites in al-Baqi'. 'Anas said: "I have never witnessed a day better or brighter than that day on which the Messenger of Allah sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam came to us and I have never witnessed a more awful or darker day than that one on which the Messenger of Allah died on." The Start of the Disease
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