{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/mos27.htm","path":"isl/pro/mos27.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/mos27.htm","text":"It is absolutely believed that Aaron died before Moses, and it is said\nthat God ordered Moses to go with Aaron to a mountain called Hur, so they\nwent along and there Aaron died and Moses buried him and went back to the\nIsraelites and he told them about the death of his brother Aaron, but they\ndenied that and charged him for killing Aaron and they did not believe\nhim until God showed them Aaron in a position and a situation that made\nthem believe the words of Moses, and as for Moses, God ordered him to go\nto a mountain called Nabu, and then to look at the holy lands without going\ninto them, and there he died and buried on the red dune, this is as mentioned\nby Abdul Wah\u00e2b Al-Najj\u00e2r.\nAnd in Muruj Al-\u00d0ahab: and God took the soul of Aaron during the\nWandering so he was buried in the mountain of Mir\u00e2n in the direction\nof the mountain of Al-Shir\u00e2' that lies after the mountain of Sinai,\nand his tomb is famous in a normal cave that some noises are heard from\nit at some nights that would make everyone scared, and they say that he\nis not buried but he is exposed in that cave. Then he (the narrator) said:\nand he who reached that position knew what we are describing, and that\nwas before Moses' death by seven months, and God took the soul of Aaron\nwhile he was one hundred and twenty three years old, and also said he died\nwhen he was one hundred and twenty years old, and they say that Moses was\ndead after the death of his brother Aaron by three years..etc, and that\nwas pointed out a while ago with some details. It is mentioned about the\ninterpretation of the holy phrase: O ye who believe! Be not as those who\nslandered Moses, but Allah proved his innocence of that which they alleged(Al-Ahz\u00e2b:69),\nthey said some sayings about it, one of them is that Moses and Aaron went\nup the mountain and Aaron died there and then the Israelites said to Moses:\nyou killed him, but God then made them know His command and that he dead\nnaturally, so God made him (Moses) innocent of that charge, and the same\nmeaning is mentioned in narrations by `Ali (ben Abi T\u00e2lib) (PUH)\nand Ibn `Abb\u00e2s.\nThey say that Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH) was asked once about who did die\nthe first, was it Moses or Aaron? He answered: Aaron died before Moses,\nand asked then: who was older? He said: Aaron. The sons of Aaron were called\nShubbar and Shubair, meaning Al-Hasan and Al-Husain. It is mentioned by\nAl-S\u00e2diq (PUH) that Moses said to Aaron: let us go to the mountain\nof Sinai, and they went out and they then reached a house with a tree at\nits door and on the tree there were two garments, so then Moses said to\nAaron: take of your clothes and go into the house and wear these two garments\nand then sleep on the bed, so Aaron did so and when he slept over the bed\nGod did take his soul. As attributed to Al-K\u00e2fi from `Am\u00e2rah\nhe said: I asked Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH): tell me about the death of Moses\nben Amram, he (PUH) then said: when the angel of death arrived at him he\nsaid to him: O peace upon you one who talked to God, then Moses answered:\nand peace upon you, who are you? He said: I am the angel of death and I\ncame to take up your soul, so then Moses asked: and from which side you\nwill take my soul? He answered: from your mouth, Moses then said to him:\nhow come and I talked by it with God the Exalted? He said: then from your\nhands, Moses said then: how come and I carried the Torah with them? He\nthen said: then from your legs, Moses then said: how come and I stepped\nwith them the mountain of Sinai? He said then: then from your eyes, Moses\nanswered then: how come and they are looking to God with hope still? He\nsaid then: then from your ears, Moses answered then: how come and I listened\nby them to the words of God the Exalted? Then God inspired to him (the\nangel\nof death): do not take his soul until he desired so, and so the angel of\ndeath went away, and he stayed alive then after as much as God wanted,\nthen after a while he called for Joshua ben Nun and advised him with his\nadvices and told him to keep his situation as a secret and to give the\nleadership after himself (Joshua) to someone else, and then Moses disappeared\nfrom his people and he found then a man that was digging a grave and he\nsaid to him: should not I help you to dig this grave? The man said then:\noh yes, so he helped him to dig the grave and fixed it and then Moses lied\ninside it to see how it was and then the veil was taken away from his eyes\nand he saw his place in paradise and then he said: O Lord take me to You,\nso the angel of death took his soul in his place and he buried him, and\nthe one was that was digging the grave was an angel in the shape of a human,\nand it is apparent that this angel is the one who buried him, and that\nwas at the time of the Wandering, and after Moses' death a caller called\nin heavens: Moses the man who talked to God died, so what soul does not\ndie, so sanctification be to Him He who does not die and no strength except\nby Him.","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: The D...","type":"page"}