وحدثني ابن منهال الضرير ، حدثنا يزيد بن زريع ، حدثنا يونس بن عبيد ، عن عمار مولى بني هاشم، قال: " سالت ابن عباس ، كم اتى لرسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يوم مات؟ فقال: ما كنت احسب مثلك من قومه يخفى عليه ذاك، قال، قلت: إني قد سالت الناس، فاختلفوا علي، فاحببت ان اعلم قولك فيه، قال: اتحسب؟ قال، قلت: نعم، قال: امسك اربعين بعث لها خمس عشرة بمكة، يامن، ويخاف، وعشر من مهاجره إلى المدينة "
صحیح مسلم · Hadith 6100
Ammar, the freed slave of Banu Hashim, reported: I asked Ibn 'Abbas how old was he when death overtook the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ). He said: I little know that such a thing is not known to a man like you who belong to his people. He said: I asked people about it but they differed with me, and I liked to know your opinion about it. He said: Do you know counting? He said: Yes. He then said: Bear this in mind very well that he was commissioned (as a Prophet) at the age of forty, and he stayed in Mecca for fifteen years; sometime in peace and sometime in dread, and (lived) for ten years after his migration to Medina.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020