Ibn Saʿd said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar informed us; Ibn Abī Sabrah related to me, from ʿUthmān ibn Abī ʿAtīq, from his father, who said:
“On the night ʿĀʾishah died, palm-branch torches wrapped in cloth and soaked in oil were carried along with her; fires were lit, and I saw the women in al-Baqīʿ as though it were a festival.” ⦗1⦘

Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar said: Ibn Jurayj narrated to us, from Nāfiʿ, who said:
“I was present when Abū Hurayrah led the funeral prayer over ʿĀʾishah in al-Baqīʿ. At the time he was Marwān’s deputy in Madinah, and he had performed ʿumrah (the minor pilgrimage) during those days.” ⦗2⦘

ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr said, “She was buried at night.” ⦗3⦘

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Shabāb ⦗4⦘, and others said, “She passed away in the year 57 AH.”

Abū ʿUbaydah Maʿmar ibn al-Muthannā, al-Wāqidī, and others said, “In the year 58 AH.”

Al-Wāqidī said: Ibn Abī Sabrah narrated to us, from Mūsā ibn Maysarah ⦗5⦘, from Sālim Sabalān:
“She died on the night of the seventeenth of Ramadan, after the witr prayer, and she instructed that she be buried that same night. The Anṣār (the Helpers of Madinah) gathered and attended, and never was a night seen with more—”