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`Aisha and `Abdullah bin `Abbas said, "When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)
became ill seriously, he started covering his face with his woolen sheet, and when he felt short of
breath, he removed it from his face and said, 'That is so! Allah's curse be on the Jews and the
Christians, as they took the graves of their prophets as (places of worship),' intending to warn (the
Muslims) of what they had done."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 64, Hadith 464
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(the wife of the Prophet) "When the ailment of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) became aggravated, he requested his
wives to permit him to be (treated) nursed in my house, and they gave him permission. He came out
(to my house), walking between two men with his feet dragging on the ground, between `Abbas bin
`Abdul--Muttalib and another man" 'Ubaidullah said, "I told `Abdullah of what `Aisha had said,
`Abdullah bin `Abbas said to me, 'Do you know who is the other man whom `Aisha did not name?' I
said, 'No.' Ibn `Abbas said, 'It was `Ali bin Abu Talib." `Aisha, the wife of the Prophet (ﷺ) used to narrate
saying, "When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) entered my house and his disease became aggravated, he said, " Pour
on me the water of seven water skins, the mouths of which have not been untied, so that I may give
advice to the people.' So we let him sit in a big basin belonging to Hafsa, the wife of the Prophet (ﷺ) and
then started to pour water on him from these water skins till he started pointing to us with his hands
intending to say, 'You have done your job." `Aisha added, "Then he went out to the people and led
them in prayer and preached to them."
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`Aisha added, "I argued with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) repeatedly about that
matter (i.e. his order that Abu Bakr should lead the people in prayer in his place when he was ill), and
what made me argue so much, was, that it never occurred to my mind that after the Prophet, the
people would ever love a man who had taken his place, and I felt that anybody standing in his place,
would be a bad omen to the people, so I wanted Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) to give up the idea of choosing Abu
Bakr (to lead the people in prayer).