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Aisha died on Tuesday 17 Ramadan 58 AH,<ref>Bewley/Saad 8:54.</ref> the 56th lunar anniversary of the Battle of Badr.<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq 299-300.</ref> By the Gregorian calendar, it was 16 July 678, and she was 64 years old. | Aisha died on Tuesday 17 Ramadan 58 AH,<ref>Bewley/Saad 8:54.</ref> the 56th lunar anniversary of the Battle of Badr.<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq 299-300.</ref> By the Gregorian calendar, it was 16 July 678, and she was 64 years old. | ||
It would have been natural to bury her in her own house, but she instructed that she should be laid beside nine of her co-wives in the ''Jannat al-Baqi'' (Celestial Cemetery) in Medina, “as I would not like to be looked upon as better than I really | It would have been natural to bury her in her own house, but she instructed that she should be laid beside nine of her co-wives in the ''Jannat al-Baqi'' (Celestial Cemetery) in Medina, “as I would not like to be looked upon as better than I really am”<ref>{{Bukhari|2|23|474}}; Bewley/Saad 8:52.</ref> and “because I have caused mischief after Allah’s Messenger.”<ref>Bewley/Saad 8:52.</ref> A flaming palm-branch led her funeral procession,<ref>Bewley/Saad 8:54.</ref> and “the ''Ansar'' gathered and attended [the funeral], and no other night was ever seen that was more crowded than that one. [Even] the people of the villages outside Medina came.”<ref>{{Tabari|39|p. 173}}.</ref> Aisha had chosen to waive the posthumous glory that she might have attracted if she had lain beside her husband, on display throughout all history as the most important of Muhammad’s consorts. | ||
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