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Abdullah ibn Abbas reminded | Aisha died on Tuesday 17 Ramadan 58 AH,<ref>Bewley/Saad 8:54.</ref> the 56th lunar anniversary of the Battle of Badr.<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq 299-300.</ref> By the Gregorian calendar, it was 16 July 678, and she was 64 years old. Abdullah ibn Abbas reminded her on her deathbed: “Good news! Nothing remains between you and meeting Muhammad!” But she replied, “Leave me be. I wish I had been something discarded and forgotten.”<ref>Bewley/Saad 8:53.</ref> Sceptical to the last, “she felt no sense ... that her faith would be rewarded.”<ref>Rogerson, B. (2006). ''The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad: and the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism'', Appendix B. London: Hachette UK.</ref> | ||
It would have been natural to bury her in her own house, but she instructed that she should be laid beside nine of her co-wives in the ''Jannat al-Baqi'' (Celestial Cemetery) in Medina, “as I would not like to be looked upon as better than I really am”<ref>{{Bukhari|2|23|474}}; Bewley/Saad 8:52.</ref> and “because I have caused mischief after Allah’s Messenger.”<ref>Bewley/Saad 8:52.</ref> A flaming palm-branch led her funeral procession, and women gathered at ''al-Baqi'' as if it were a festival.<ref>Bewley/Saad 8:54</ref> “The ''Ansar'' gathered and attended [the funeral], and no other night was ever seen that was more crowded than that one. [Even] the people of the villages outside Medina came.”<ref>{{Tabari|39|p. 173}}.</ref> Aisha had chosen to waive the posthumous glory that she might have attracted if she had lain beside her husband, on display throughout all history as the most important of Muhammad’s consorts. | It would have been natural to bury her in her own house, but she instructed that she should be laid beside nine of her co-wives in the ''Jannat al-Baqi'' (Celestial Cemetery) in Medina, “as I would not like to be looked upon as better than I really am”<ref>{{Bukhari|2|23|474}}; Bewley/Saad 8:52.</ref> and “because I have caused mischief after Allah’s Messenger.”<ref>Bewley/Saad 8:52.</ref> A flaming palm-branch led her funeral procession, and women gathered at ''al-Baqi'' as if it were a festival.<ref>Bewley/Saad 8:54</ref> “The ''Ansar'' gathered and attended [the funeral], and no other night was ever seen that was more crowded than that one. [Even] the people of the villages outside Medina came.”<ref>{{Tabari|39|p. 173}}.</ref> Aisha had chosen to waive the posthumous glory that she might have attracted if she had lain beside her husband, on display throughout all history as the most important of Muhammad’s consorts. | ||