After Muhammad and his followers had attacked a Jewish settlement, Khaibar, a Jewish woman whose father, uncle and husband had all been killed by the Muslims offered to cook a meal for Muhammad and his companions. Muhammad gladly accepted the invitation. Here is what happened:
HADITH REFERENCES
Sunan Abu Dawud 4498—A Jewess presented [Muhammad] at Khaibar a roasted sheep which she had poisoned. The Apostle of Allah ate of it and the people also ate. He then said: Lift your hands (from eating), for it has informed me that it is poisoned. Bishr b. al-Bara b. Ma’rur al-Ansari died. So he (the Prophet) sent for the Jewess (and said to her): What motivated you to do the work you have done? She said: If you were a prophet, it would not harm you; but if you were a king, I would rid the people of you. The Apostle of Allah then ordered regarding her and she was killed. He then said about the pain of which he died: I continued to feel pain from the morsel which I had eaten at Khaibar. This is the time when it has cut off my aorta.
Sunan Abu Dawud 4449—Umm Bishr said to the Prophet during the sickness of which he died: What do you think about your illness, Apostle of Allah? I do not think about the illness of my son except the poisoned sheep of which he had eaten with you at Khaibar. The Prophet said: And I do not think about my illness except that. This is the time when it cut off my aorta.
Sahih al-Bukhari 2588—Aisha said, “When the Prophet became sick and his condition became serious, he requested his wives to allow him to be treated in my house, and they allowed him. He came out leaning on two men while his feet were dragging on the ground.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 2617—A Jewess brought a poisoned (cooked) sheep for the Prophet who ate from it. She was brought to the Prophet and was asked, “Shall we kill her?” He said, “No.” Anas added: “I continued to see the effect of the poison on the palate of the mouth of Allah’s Messenger.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 2797—The Prophet said, . . . “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is! I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then come back to life and then get martyred, and then come back to life again and then get martyred and then come back to life again and then get martyred.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 4428—The Prophet in his ailment in which he died, used to say, “O Aishah! I still feel the pain caused by the food I ate at Khaibar, and at this time, I feel as if my aorta is being cut from that poison.”
Sahih Muslim 5430—A Jewess came to Allah’s Messenger with poisoned mutton and he took of what had been brought to him. (When the effects of this poison were felt by him) he called for her and asked her about that, whereupon she said: I had determined to kill you. Thereupon he said: Allah will never give you the power to do it.
SIRA REFERENCES
At-Tabari, Volume 8, p. 124—The Messenger of God said during the illness from which he died—the mother of Bishr b. al-Bara had come in to visit him—“Umm Bishr, at this very moment I feel my aorta being severed because of the food I ate with your son at Khaybar.”
How much pain was Muhammad in?
Ibn Ishaq, p. 516—Marwan b. Uthman b. Abu Sa’id b. al-Mu’alla told me: The apostle had said in his illness of which he was to die when Umm Bishr d. al-Bara came to visit him, ‘O Umm Bishr, this is the time in which I feel a deadly pain from what I ate with your brother at Khaybar.’
Sunan Ibn Majah 1622—Aishah said: “I never saw anyone suffer more pain than the Messenger of Allah.”
Aisha saw a lot of pain in her life. She was at the battle of the Camel where about ten thousand Muslims slaughtered each other over a disagreement. And yet she could say that she hadn’t seen anyone going through what Muhammad was going through.
Now that you’ve seen what the sources say, I encourage you to ask your imam or scholars about the points made here. They’ll give you a simple response: they’ll claim that Muhammad couldn’t have died from the poison at Khaibar because he died a few years after the battle. But this is sheer nonsense. If you eat enough of certain kind of poison it will kill you quickly. But if you eat less than the dose that would kill you, you’ll survive but the poison can do internal damage that kills you more slowly. That’s exactly what Muhammad said happened. He said, “I continued to feel pain from the morsel which I had eaten at Khaibar. This is the time when it has cut off my aorta.” In other words, “the poison hurt me at the beginning; I’ve been in pain for years and now it’s killing me. I am dying of poison.”
Allah cursing his own messenger?
This is interesting if we are discussing the curse of Allah. Well, in the Qur’an Allah tells us how he would kill Muhammad if Muhammad ever forged the revelation.
QUR’AN TRANSLATIONS
Qur’an 69:44-46—And if he (Muhammad) had forged a false saying concerning Us We surely should have seized him by his right hand (or with power and might), and then certainly should have cut off his life artery (Aorta). (Hilali-Khan)
Qur’an 69:44-46—And if he (Muhammad) had invented false sayings concerning Us, We assuredly had taken him by the right hand and then severed his life-artery. (Pickthall)
Qur’an 69:44-46—And if he had fabricated against Us some of the sayings, We would certainly have seized him by the right hand, then We would certainly have cut off his aorta. (Shakir)
- So, what does Allah says he would do to Muhammad for making up revelation? He would cut off his aorta.
- And what did Muhammad say that the poison did to him? It has cut off his aorta.
Muhammad died exactly the way Allah said he would die if he fabricated revelations!!!
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