From the Nineteenth Discourse—page 396

in Irshad: Wisdom of a Sufi Master, by Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak Al-Jerrahi, trans. Muhtar Holland. An Ashki Book of Amity House, Warwick: 1988.

 

 

 

RESTING PLACES OF THE BLESSED PROPHET’S FAMILY

 

Remember that the room where the noble Messenger of Allāh lies buried belonged to the venerable ‘Ā’isha.  It was in that very room that our Master, God’s dearly beloved, the mercy to all mankind, the sultan of the Prophets, met with his Lord on the bosom of our Mother, the venerable ‘Ā’isha; and there he was buried.  Abū Bakr father of our Master’s revered wife ‘Ā’isha was later buried in that room.

Abū Bakr was the father-in-law of the noble Messenger of Allāh.  Later still, by leave of the venerable ‘Ā’isha, the room became the burial place of ‘Umar ibn al-Khattāb, son-in-law of both the noble Messenger and of Imam ‘Alī.  If the noble Hasan had also been buried there, the Purified Resting Place would have become the cemetery of the Prophet’s Household.  It should be carefully noted that even the venerable ‘Ā’isha lies buried not in the Resting Place but in the Garden of the Grove, where the third Caliph, ‘Uthmān of the Double Light, is likewise interred…

After our Master, no one but the venerable Abū Bakr and ‘Umar, was buried in the Resting Place.  The interment of the venerable Hasan the Chosen in the Garden of the Grove ensured that part of Muhammad would lie there.

According to one account, Fātima, the Best of Women, is also buried in the room of her father, the noble Messenger who is a mercy to all mankind.  According to another version, she lies in the Garden of the Grove.

The household of the Chosen Prophet, the family of Muhammad, are light, light…