Abu Dharr al-Ghifari: Difference between revisions

Abu Dhar passed away in [[Dhu l-Hijja]] [[32]]/653, in [[al-Rabatha]], in the time of Uthman's caliphate<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk'', vol. 3, p. 336; vol. 3, p. 354.</ref>. As [[Ibn Kathir]] has said, "no one was with him except his wife and his child when he passed away."<ref>Ibn Kathīr, ''al-Bidāya wa l-nihāya'', vol. 7, p. 185.</ref> Al-Zirikli said, "when he passed away his family did not have anything to enshroud his body".<ref>Ziriklī, ''al-Aʿlām'', vol. 2, p. 140.</ref>. Mihran b. Maymun said: "All the property of Abu Dhar valued only about two dirhams [an old currency in Arab countries less valuable than dinar]"<ref>Amīn,'' Aʿyān al-Shīʿa'', vol. 4, p. 229.</ref>.

It is said when his wife "Umm Dhar" was crying she said to Abu Dhar: "You die in the desert, and I have nothing to enshroud your body. He replied: Do not cry and be happy, for [[Prophet Muhammad (s)]] said one of you would die in the desert, and a group of Muslims will bury him. The others have passed away in cities, and I am the only one left, and I die in the desert; Prophet Muhammad (s) was talking about me<ref>Amīn,''Aʿyān al-Shīʿa'', vol. 4, p. 241.</ref>.

When he died [[Abd Allah b. Mas'ud]] and a number of [[Ansar]], [[Hujr b. Adi]], [[Malik al-Ashtar]] and several young Muslims were passing the desert, and coincidentally they noticed Abu Dhar. Therefore, they enshrouded his body and buried him and Abd Allah b. Mas'ud performed [[Funeral Prayer|Funeral prayer]] on his body<ref>Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, ''al-Istīʿāb'', vol. 1, p. 253; Ibn Ḥibbān, ''al-Thiqāt'', vol. 3, p. 55. </ref>.

Al-Harbi, in ''al-Manasik'', said there was a mosque in al-Rabatha under the name of Abu Dhar; and it is said that the grave of Abu Dhar was in that mosque.<ref>Ḥarbī, ''al-Manāsik'', p. 327</ref>