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

Al-Abbas b. Abd al-Muttalib died on Friday, [[Rajab 14]], [[32]]<ref>Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, ''al-Istīʿāb'', vol. 2, p. 816.</ref> ([[February 21]], 653) in the period of [[Uthman]]'s caliphate at the age of 88 or 89.<ref>Balādhurī, ''Ansāb al-ashrāf'', vol. 3, p. 1, 22.</ref> [[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 therefore 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.<ref>Ibn Saʿd, ''al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā'', vol. 4, p. 22-23.</ref>