يَتَخَٰفَتُونَ بَيْنَهُمْ إِن لَّبِثْتُمْ إِلَّا عَشْرًۭا
Yatakhaafatoona bainahum il labistum illaa 'ashraa
They will murmur among themselves, "You remained not but ten [days in the world]."
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They will whisper to one another speaking secretly amongst themselves ‘You have tarried in this world only ten nights’ with the full ten days.
Related Hadiths
"One of you used to mourn for a year, then throw a piece of dung when a year had passed. Rather it (the mourning period) is four months and ten days."
We stayed (in Mecca) for ten days along with the Prophet (ﷺ) and used to offer shortened prayers (i.e.
journey prayers).
None amongst the created beings (from my Companions) would survive after one hundred years. Salim said: We made a mention of it to him (Jabir), whereupon he said: It means those who had been living on that day.
"I went out with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) from Al-Madinah to Mekkah, and he continued to shorten his prayers, and he stayed there for ten days."
The other narrators mentioned "nine years" from Hisham except Mu'adh.
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