Muhammad Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===={{anchor|Death and tomb|Death}}Death and tomb==== [[File:Siyer-i Nebi 414a.jpg|thumb|The death of Muhammad. From the {{transliteration|ar|[[Siyer-i Nebi]]}}, {{c.|1595}}.]] After praying at the burial site in June 632, Muhammad suffered a dreadful headache that made him cry in pain.{{sfn|Gabriel|2014|p=203}}{{sfn|Rodinson|2021|p=286}} He continued to spend the night with each of his wives one by one,{{sfn|Rodinson|2021|p=286–7}} but he fainted in [[Maymunah bint al-Harith|Maymunah]]'s hut.{{sfn|Glubb|2001|p=360}} He requested his wives to allow him to stay in [[Aisha]]'s hut. He could not walk there without leaning on [[Ali]] and [[Fadl ibn Abbas]], as his legs were trembling. His wives and his uncle [[Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib|al-Abbas]] fed him an Abyssinian remedy when he was unconscious.{{sfn|Rodinson|2021|p=287}} When he came to, he inquired about it, and they explained they were afraid he had [[pleurisy]]. He replied that God would not afflict him with such a vile disease, and ordered all the women to also take the remedy.{{sfn|Glubb|2001|p=361}} According to various sources, including {{transliteration|ar|[[Sahih al-Bukhari]]}}, Muhammad said that he felt his aorta being severed because of the food he ate at Khaybar.{{sfn|Katz|2022|p=147}}{{sfn|Glubb|2001|p=283}} On 8 June 632, Muhammad died. In his last moments, he reportedly uttered: {{Blockquote|O God, forgive me and have mercy on me; and let me join the highest companions.{{Sfn|Cole|1996|p=268}}{{Sfn|Borup|Fibiger|Kühle|2019|p=132}}{{Sfn|Ibn Kathīr|1998|p=344}}|Muhammad}} Historian Alfred T. Welch speculates that Muhammad's death was caused by Medinan fever, which was aggravated by physical and mental fatigue.{{sfn|Buhl|Welch|1993|p=374}} Muhammad was buried where he died in Aisha's house.{{sfn|Buhl|Welch|1993}}<ref>Leila Ahmed (1986), 665–91 (686)</ref>{{sfn|Peters|2003|p=90}} During the reign of the Umayyad caliph [[al-Walid I]], [[al-Masjid an-Nabawi]] (the Mosque of the Prophet) was expanded to include the site of [[Al-Masjid an-Nabawi|Muhammad's tomb.]]<ref>{{Cite book |publisher=Penerbit UTM |isbn=978-983-52-0373-2 |last=Ariffin |first=Syed Ahmad Iskandar Syed |title=Architectural Conservation in Islam: Case Study of the Prophet's Mosque |date=2005 |page=88}}</ref> The [[Green Dome]] above the tomb was built by the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk]] sultan [[Al Mansur Qalawun]] in the 13th century, although the green color was added in the 16th century, under the reign of [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] sultan [[Suleiman the Magnificent]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=10061 |title=Prophet's Mosque |publisher=Archnet.org |date=2 May 2005 |access-date=26 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323131933/http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=10061 |archive-date=23 March 2012 }}</ref> Among tombs adjacent to that of Muhammad are those of his companions ([[Sahabah]]), the first two Muslim caliphs [[Abu Bakr]] and [[Umar]], and an empty one that [[Jesus in Islam#Second Coming|Muslims believe awaits Jesus]].{{sfn|Peters|2003|p=90}}<ref>"Isa", ''Encyclopaedia of Islam''.</ref><ref name="Al-HaqqaniKabbani2002">{{cite book |first1=Shaykh Adil |last1=Al-Haqqani |first2=Shaykh Hisham |last2=Kabbani |author-link2=Hisham Kabbani |title=The Path to Spiritual Excellence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzpV0QnOVxsC&pg=PA65 |date=2002 |publisher=ISCA |isbn=978-1-930409-18-7 |pages=65–66 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924043430/https://books.google.com/books?id=mzpV0QnOVxsC&pg=PA65 |archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref> When [[Saud bin Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad bin Saud|Saud bin Abdul-Aziz]] took Medina in 1805, Muhammad's tomb was stripped of its gold and jewel ornamentation.<ref name="Weston2008" /> Adherents to [[Wahhabism]], Saud's followers, destroyed nearly every tomb dome in Medina in order to prevent their veneration,<ref name="Weston2008">{{cite book |first=Mark |last=Weston |author-link=Mark Weston (journalist) |title=Prophets and princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EEEFsVYLko4C&pg=PA102 |date=2008 |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |isbn=978-0-470-18257-4 |pages=102–03 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101063555/https://books.google.com/books?id=EEEFsVYLko4C&pg=PA102 |archive-date=1 January 2016}}</ref> and the one of Muhammad is reported to have narrowly escaped.<ref name="Behrens-AbouseifVernoit2006">{{cite book |first1=Doris |last1=Behrens-Abouseif |first2=Stephen |last2=Vernoit |title=Islamic art in the 19th century: tradition, innovation, and eclecticism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A4q58Af5zAoC&pg=PA22 |date=2006 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-14442-2 |page=22 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930145617/https://books.google.com/books?id=A4q58Af5zAoC&pg=PA22 |archive-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> Similar events took place in 1925, when the [[Ikhwan|Saudi militias]] retook—and this time managed to keep—the city.<ref name="Weston2008b">{{cite book |first=Mark |last=Weston |title=Prophets and princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EEEFsVYLko4C&pg=PA136 |date=2008 |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |isbn=978-0-470-18257-4 |page=136 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101063555/https://books.google.com/books?id=EEEFsVYLko4C&pg=PA136 |archive-date=1 January 2016}}</ref><ref name="Cornell2007">{{cite book |first=Vincent J. |last=Cornell |title=Voices of Islam: Voices of the spirit |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8dNKFLJVvNkC&pg=PA84 |date=2007 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-275-98734-3 |page=84 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101063555/https://books.google.com/books?id=8dNKFLJVvNkC&pg=PA84 |archive-date=1 January 2016}}</ref><ref name="Ernst2004">{{cite book |first=Carl W. |last=Ernst |author-link=Carl W. Ernst |title=Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the contemporary world |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DOWn22EkJsQC&pg=PA1173 |date=2004 |publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-5577-5 |pages=173–74 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101063555/https://books.google.com/books?id=DOWn22EkJsQC&pg=PA1173 |archive-date=1 January 2016}}</ref> In the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam, burial is to take place in unmarked graves.<ref name="Behrens-AbouseifVernoit2006" /> Although the practice is frowned upon by the Saudis, many pilgrims continue to practice a {{transliteration|ar|[[ziyarat]]}}—a ritual visit—to the tomb.{{Sfn|Bennett|1998|p=182–83}}<ref name="Clark2011">{{cite book |first=Malcolm |last=Clark |title=Islam For Dummies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zPXu561ZpvgC&pg=PT165 |date=2011 |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |isbn=978-1-118-05396-6 |page=165 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924035138/https://books.google.com/books?id=zPXu561ZpvgC&pg=PT165 |archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref> {{wide image|Madina Haram at evening.jpg|800px|[[Al-Masjid an-Nabawi]] ("the Prophet's mosque") in [[Medina]], Saudi Arabia, with the [[Green Dome]] built over Muhammad's tomb in the center|left}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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