The Death of Abū Ṭālib

Three years before the Hijra (emigration) of our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to Medina,²⁹ in the middle of the month of Shawwāl, he passed away.³⁰ At the time of his death, his age had surpassed eighty;³¹ he had reached eighty-seven,³² even ninety.³³ ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him) says: al-Qaṣaṣ: 56.

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1. Abū Ṭālib, in the tenth year of prophethood, after leaving the Shiʿb,^{27 28}
2. 23. Ibn Isḥāq, Ibn Hishām, 2/59; Ibn Saʿd, 1/122-123; al-Bayhaqī, Dalāʾil, 2/346; Ibn Sayyid, 1/131; al-Dhahabī, Tārīkh, p. 236; Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāya, 3/123; al-Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ, 6/18; Muslim, 1/54; al-Wāḥidī, p. 228; Ibn Sayyid, 1/132.
3. 26. Ibn Saʿd, 3/543; al-Dhahabī, Tārīkh, p. 233; al-Balādhurī, Ansāb, 1/236; Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil, 2/90; Ibn Sayyid, 1/130; al-Balādhurī, Ansāb, 1/236; Ibn Sayyid, 1/129.
4. 29. Ibn Isḥāq, Ibn Hishām, 2/57; Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil, 2/90; Ibn Sayyid, 1/130; Ibn Khaldūn, Tārīkh, vol. 2, part 2, p. 10; al-Qastallānī, al-Mawāhib, 1/71; al-Balādhurī, Ansāb, 1/236; Ibn al-Athīr, 2/90; al-Balādhurī, Ansāb, 1/236; Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil, 2/90; al-Diyārabakrī, 1/299; al-Qastallānī, al-Mawāhib, 1/71; al-Diyārabakrī, 1/299; al-Yaʿqūbī, 2/35.