Amr reported: I said to 'Urwa: How long did Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) stay in Mecca? He said: For ten years. I said: Ibn Abbas says it is some years above ten. He ('Urwa) sought forgiveness for him and said: His statement is based on the verse of a poet.
Read More..Ibn 'Abbas reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) stayed in Mecca for thirteen years and he died when he had attained the age of sixty three years.
Read More..Ibn 'Abbas reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) stayed in Mecca for thirteen years (after he had received revelation) and stayed in Medina for ten years, and he was sixty-three when he died.
Read More..Abu Ishaq reported: I was sitting with 'Abdullah b. 'Utba and there was a discussion about the age of the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ). Some of the persons said: Abu Bakr was older than Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ). 'Abdullah said: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) died when he was sixty-three, and Abu Bakr died when he was sixty-three and so 'Umar fell as a martyr when he was sixty-three. A person from the people who was called 'Amir b. Sa'd reported that Jabir had said: We were sitting with Mu'awiya that there was a discussion about the age of Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ). Thereupon Mu'awiya said: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) died when he had attained the age of sixty-three, and Abu Bakr died when he had attained the age of sixty-three, and Umar fell as a martyr when he had attained the age of sixty-three.
Read More..Jabir reported that he heard Mu'awiya say in his address that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) died at the age of sixty-three, so was the case with Abu Bakr and 'Umar, and I (am now) sixty-three.
Read More..Ammar, the freed slave of Banu Hashim, reported: I asked Ibn 'Abbas how old was he when death overtook the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ). He said: I little know that such a thing is not known to a man like you who belong to his people. He said: I asked people about it but they differed with me, and I liked to know your opinion about it. He said: Do you know counting? He said: Yes. He then said: Bear this in mind very well that he was commissioned (as a Prophet) at the age of forty, and he stayed in Mecca for fifteen years; sometime in peace and sometime in dread, and (lived) for ten years after his migration to Medina.
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