Sirat Ibn Hisham 1647
The Messenger’s use of the tooth-stick ﷺ shortly before his death
[ سِوَاكُ الرَّسُولِ قُبَيْلَ الْوَفَاةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ عُتْبَةَ، عَنْ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَتْ: رَجَعَ إلَيَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ حِينَ دَخَلَ مِنْ الْمَسْجِدِ، فَاضْطَجَعَ فِي حِجْرِي، فَدَخَلَ عَلَيَّ رَجُلٌ مِنْ آلِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، وَفِي يَدِهِ سِوَاكٌ أَخَضَرَ. قَالَتْ: فَنَظَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إلَيْهِ فِي يَدِهِ نَظَرًا عَرَفْتُ أَنَّهُ يُرِيدُهُ، قَالَتْ: فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، أَتُحِبُّ أَنْ أُعْطِيَكَ هَذَا السِّوَاكَ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَتْ: فَأَخَذْتُهُ فَمَضَغْتُهُ لَهُ حَتَّى لَيَّنْتُهُ، ثُمَّ أَعْطَيْتُهُ إيَّاهُ؛ قَالَتْ: فَاسْتَنَّ بِهِ كَأَشَدِّ مَا رَأَيْتُهُ يَسْتَنُّ بِسِوَاكٍ قَطُّ، ثُمَّ وَضَعَهُ؛ وَوَجَدْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَثْقُلُ فِي حِجْرِي، فَذَهَبْتُ أَنْظُرُ فِي وَجْهِهِ، فَإِذَا بَصَرُهُ قَدْ شَخَصَ، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: بَلْ الرَّفِيقُ الْأَعْلَى مِنْ الْجَنَّةِ، قَالَتْ: فَقُلْتُ: خُيِّرْتُ فَاخْتَرْتُ وَاَلَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ قَالَتْ: وَقُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَبَّادٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَائِشَةَ تَقُولُ: مَاتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَيْنَ سَحْرِي وَنَحْرِي وَفِي دَوْلَتِي، لَمْ أَظْلِمْ فِيهِ أَحَدًا، فَمِنْ سَفَهِي وَحَدَاثَةِ سِنِّي أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قُبِضَ وَهُوَ فِي حِجْرِي، ثُمَّ وَضَعْتُ رَأْسَهُ عَلَى وِسَادَةٍ، وَقُمْتُ ألْتَدِمُ مَعَ النِّسَاءِ، وَأَضْرِبُ وَجْهِي
Translation
✧ [The Messenger's tooth-stick shortly before death] Ibn Isḥāq said: Yaʿqūb b. ʿUtbah narrated to me, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned to me that day when he entered from the mosque, and lay down in my lap. A man from the household of Abū Bakr came in to me with a green tooth-stick in his hand. She said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ looked at it in his hand with a look by which I knew that he wanted it. She said: I said, "O Messenger of Allah, would you like me to give you this tooth-stick?" He said, "Yes." She said: So I took it and chewed it for him until I softened it, then I gave it to him. She said: He cleaned his teeth with it as vigorously as I ever saw him clean his teeth with a tooth-stick, then he laid it down. And I found the Messenger of Allah ﷺ becoming heavy in my lap. I went to look at his face, and behold his gaze was fixed, and he was saying, "Rather, the Highest Companion, from Paradise." She said: I said, "You were given the choice, and you chose, by the One who sent you with the truth." She said: And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was taken. Ibn Isḥāq said: Yaḥyā b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr narrated to me, from his father ʿAbbād, who said: I heard ʿĀʾishah say: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ died between my chest and my neck, and in my turn; I did not wrong anyone concerning him. It was from my foolishness and youth that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was taken while he was in my lap, then I laid his head on a pillow and got up beating my breast with the women and striking my face.
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