Umm Kulthum Daughter of Prophet Muhammad (s): Difference between revisions

Umm Kulthum passed away in [[Sha'ban]], [[9]]/[[November]] 630<ref>Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, ''al-Iṣāba'', vol. 8, p. 460.</ref> and the Prophet (s) [[Prayer of the Dead|prayed]] upon her body. [[Asma' bt. 'Umays]] and [[Safiyya bt. 'Abd al-Muttalib]] performed her [[ghusl]] and [[Imam Ali (a)]], [[al-Fadl b. al-'Abbas|al-Fadl]], [[Usama b. Zayd]], and [[Abu Talha al-Ansari]] put her into the grave and buried her. Umm 'Atiyya al-Ansari was witness to her ghusl.<ref>Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, ''al-Istīʿāb'', vol. 4, p. 1952-1953; Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, ''al-Iṣāba'', vol. 8, p. 460.</ref> However according to Ibn Athir, Umm 'Atiyya performed her ghusl.<ref>Ibn Athīr, Usd al-ghāba, vol. 6, p. 384.</ref>

The tomb attributed to the burial place of the daughters of the Prophet (s), Ruqayya, Umm Kulthum and Zaynab in [[al-Baqi' cemetery]] was among the tombs located north of the graves of Imams (a) and south-west of the graves of the [[wives of the Prophet (s)]], near the grave of [['Uthman b. Maz'un]].

Different sources report the burial of Ruqayya<ref>Ibn Shubba, ''Tārīkh al-Medina'', vol. 1, p. 103; Ibn Saʿd, ''al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā'', vol. 8, p. 37.</ref> and Zaynab<ref>Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, ''al-Istīʿāb'', vol. 3, p. 1056; Ibn Ḥanbal, ''Musnad'', vol.  1, p. 237.</ref> in al-Baqi' cemetery near the grave of 'Uthman b. Maz'un, following the advice of the Prophet (s). However, there is no report about the burial location of Umm Kulthum. Only later writers including Farhad Mirza<ref>Farhād Mīrzā, ''Safarnāma-yi Farhād Mīrzā'', p. 156.</ref> and Raf'at Pasha<ref>Rafʿat Pāshā, ''Mirʾāt al-ḥaramayn'', p. 478.</ref> have mentioned that Umm Kulthum is buried beside other daughters of the Prophet (s) and have also referred to the tomb built over their graves. In the past, there was a brazen [[darih]] over their graves.<ref>Jaʿfarīyān, ''Panjāh safarnāma-yi Ḥaj'', vol. 5, p. 241.</ref> Wahhabis destroyed this tomb.