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away!" She wounded him so severely that his head was split open and laid bare part of
his skull. The wound was never to heal, it turned septic and its poison spread rapidly
through his entire body erupting into open pustules that caused his death within the
week.
When he died, his family, fearing they might be afflicted with disease -- for they feared
the plague and his condition resembled it -- were hesitant to bury him and so they left his
decaying body decomposing in his home for two or three nights.
It was only when someone rebuked them strongly saying, "It is disgraceful, you should
be ashamed of yourselves to leave your father to rot in his house and not bury him from
the sight of men!" that they did something. With great reluctance and from a safe
distance, his sons threw water over his body, then removed his corpse and left it by a
wall on a high piece of ground outside Mecca and threw stones over it until it was
completely covered.
Three Resolutions
As the fragmented Koraysh army returned home, the extent of their unexpected and
his skull. The wound was never to heal, it turned septic and its poison spread rapidly
through his entire body erupting into open pustules that caused his death within the
week.
When he died, his family, fearing they might be afflicted with disease -- for they feared
the plague and his condition resembled it -- were hesitant to bury him and so they left his
decaying body decomposing in his home for two or three nights.
It was only when someone rebuked them strongly saying, "It is disgraceful, you should
be ashamed of yourselves to leave your father to rot in his house and not bury him from
the sight of men!" that they did something. With great reluctance and from a safe
distance, his sons threw water over his body, then removed his corpse and left it by a
wall on a high piece of ground outside Mecca and threw stones over it until it was
completely covered.
Three Resolutions
As the fragmented Koraysh army returned home, the extent of their unexpected and