Death
She was the first of Muhammad's wives to die after him. She died during the caliphate of Umar bin Khattab in the 23rd year of Hijra. However, other narrators say she died in the 21st year of Hijra.
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“There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.”
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“Two graves must hide thine and my corse;
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