Al-Abbas b. Abd al-Muttalib: Difference between revisions

According to historical accounts, 'Abbas was a nobleman, intelligent, awesome, tolerant, generous, handsome, very white, tall, sturdy, and loud. According to al-Dhahabi, he was one of the tallest, most beautiful, most awesome, loudest, most tolerant gentlemen. About his height, it is said that he was taller than all people when they [[tawaf|circumambulated]] around the [[Ka'ba]] and seemed like a white howdah.  

Al-'Abbas b. 'Abd al-Muttalib died on Friday, [[Rajab 14]], [[32]] ([[February 21]], 653) in the period of [['Uthman]]'s caliphate at the age of 88 or 89. [[Ali (a)]] and his sons performed [[ghusl al-mayyit]] on his corpse, and 'Uthman, the third caliph, asked them to let him attend the ceremony. In addition to [[Banu Hashim]]'s messenger, 'Uthman's messengers also went to villages and tribes and called people to attend 'Abbas's [[funeral]]. The population that gathered in his funeral was unprecedently large. The place where the [[Funeral Prayer]] was supposed to be performed did not have enough space for the population and so the prayer was performed in [[al-Baqi']] cemetery behind 'Uthman. Because of the congestion of the population, the cloth over his corpse was torn apart. Thus, the caliph commissioned his police to keep people away to let Banu Hashim engage in the burial of the corpse. In any case, al-'Abbas's corpse was buried with a unique glory.