al-Awwal.

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq said: “He passed away twelve nights into Rabīʿ al-Awwal, on the very day he had first arrived in Madinah as an emigrant, thereby completing ten full lunar years of residence there.”

Al-Wāqidī reported—through ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī, from his father, from his grandfather—who said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ fell ill on the Wednesday night when one night of Ṣafar remained, and he died on the Monday when twelve nights of Rabīʿ al-Awwal had elapsed.”

A similar report concerning the date of his death is transmitted from ʿĀʾishah and, if authentic, from Ibn ʿAbbās; upon this dating relied Saʿīd ibn ʿUfayr, Muḥammad ibn Saʿd the scribe, and others.

Al-Khaḍir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Azdī informed us, saying: Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Ban informed us; my grandfather informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Faqīh informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr informed us; ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAqab informed us; Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿĀʾidh narrated to us; al-Haytham ibn Ḥumayd related to us; al-Nuʿmān told me, on the authority of Makḥūl, who said:

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was born on a Monday, was first granted revelation on a Monday, departed Mecca on a Monday, and died on a Monday at the age of sixty-two years and some months. Before revelation he lived forty-two years; he then remained privately receiving revelation for ten years. Afterward he emigrated to Madinah and fought there for ten and a half years. Thus, the total span of revelation to him was twenty and a half years. When he passed away he remained unburied for three days; groups of people would enter in succession to pray over him, and the women did likewise.

He was washed by al-Faḍl ibn al-ʿAbbās and ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and al-Faḍl would hand them…"