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Passing of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ

وفاة النبي ﷺ
12 Rabīʿ al-Awwal·8 Jun 632· DayAttested ·Death · Hijaz · Prophetic era

After days of fever following his final pilgrimage year, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ died at midday on Monday 12 Rabīʿ al-Awwal 11 AH, in the apartment of ʿĀʾishah, his head against her chest. He was sixty-three.

The community's shock is itself part of the record: ʿUmar refused to believe the news until Abū Bakr recited "Muḥammad is only a messenger; messengers have passed away before him" (3:144), and the words settled the matter. He was buried where he died, and the spot lies today under the green dome of the Prophet's Mosque.

The day is among the best attested in the early corpus, transmitted in the same breath as the succession at Saqīfat Banī Sāʿidah that followed it.

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CHRONICLE Ibn Hishām, al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya no URL — cited edition
CHRONICLE al-Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-Rusul wa-l-Mulūk no URL — cited edition
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Passing of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ
وفاة النبي ﷺ
12 Rabīʿ al-Awwal·8 Jun 632 DayAttested

After days of fever following his final pilgrimage year, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ died at midday on Monday 12 Rabīʿ al-Awwal 11 AH, in the apartment of ʿĀʾishah, his head against her chest. He was sixty-three.

The community's shock is itself part of the record: ʿUmar refused to believe the news until Abū Bakr recited "Muḥammad is only a messenger; messengers have passed away before him" (3:144), and the words settled the matter. He was buried where he died, and the spot lies today under the green dome of the Prophet's Mosque.

The day is among the best attested in the early corpus, transmitted in the same breath as the succession at Saqīfat Banī Sāʿidah that followed it.

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CHRONICLE Ibn Hishām, al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya no URL — cited edition
CHRONICLE al-Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-Rusul wa-l-Mulūk no URL — cited edition
REFERENCE Wikipedia, Muhammad — final years Open ↗
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