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.
Read More..This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Yunus with the same chain of transmitters.
Read More..Ammar, the freed slave of Banu Hashim, reported that Ibn 'Abbas said that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) died when he had attained the age of sixty-five.
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