His grave and what was laid in it

By reports beyond counting it is known that he was buried in the chamber of Aïcha, which she held at the east of his mosque, in the west, qibla-side corner of the chamber; Abou Bakr was buried there after him, then Oumar. Boukhari relates, from Soufyan at-Tammar, that he saw the grave of the Prophet raised with a swelling. Al-Qasim said: I entered upon Aïcha and asked her to uncover for me the grave of the Messenger of Allah and his two companions; she showed me three graves, neither raised nor jutting, smoothed like the flat ground of the red arena; one version adds that the Prophet was foremost, Abou Bakr’s head between his two shoulders, Oumar’s head at the level of his feet. Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik had the mosque of Medina enlarged by his governor Oumar ibn Abd al-Aziz, and the prophetic chamber came within it; when the wall collapsed in the time of al-Walid and they rebuilt it, a foot appeared: they were alarmed, taking it for the Prophet’s, until Urwa said: by Allah, it is not the foot of the Prophet, it is the foot of Oumar.

And Aïcha had directed Abdallah ibn az-Zoubayr not to bury her with them but with her companions at al-Baqi’: "let me never be glorified for that."

In the lachd was spread a red velvet garment he wore on the day of Khaybar: the Messenger of Allah had said: "spread my velvet in my lachd, for the earth has not been given power over the bodies of the prophets"; al-Hasan specifies that Medina is damp ground, and so it was spread beneath him. Ibn Abbas also says: a red velvet garment was placed in the grave of the Prophet; Wakei’ adds: this was particular to the Messenger of Allah. Over the grave water was sprinkled: Bilal ibn Rabbah did it with a waterskin, from the head, on the right side, down to the feet, then cast the water against the wall, unable to go around. Upon his lachd bricks were set; some count nine.

Aïcha said at last: the Prophet died in my house, on my day, between my waking and my midday, and Allah joined my spittle and his in the last hour of this world and the first hour of the next. And he had said in his illness: "may Allah curse the Jews and the Christians: they took the graves of their prophets as mosques"; Aïcha comments: but for that, his grave would have been made prominent, for he feared it would be taken as a mosque.