With-Love-to-Muhammad

Death of Hazrat ‘Īsā as bin Mariam ra 189
Dāwūd, Nasa’ī, Dārimī, Mu’attā and Sharh-us-Sunnah
etc., was that the expression tawaffī has been used
three hundred and forty six times, and in no single
instance has it been used, either by the Holy Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) or by his
companions, to mean anything other than death, or
taking possession of the soul. I have gone through these
books with great care line by line, and I can say that
on each and every occasion the expression tawaffī has
been used only in the connotation of death or taking
possession of the soul. A careful perusal of these
books also establishes that, from the moment of the
Call and all through his life, the Holy Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allāh be upon him) never used the
expression tawaffī in any connotation other than
death and taking possession of the soul....
Imam Muhammad Ismā‘īl Bukhārī has made a fine
point in his compilation which indicates that the
Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon
him) used the expression tawaffī at least seven
thousand times between his Call and his death, and
every time he used it in the connotation of death and
taking possession of the soul. Seekers after truth
should be grateful to Imām Bukhārī for this
information. 196
Again, he writes:
The Holy Qur’ān clearly states that there never was
a prophet who did not pass away:
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Izāla-e-Auhām, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 3, Pages 583-585, trans. in The
Essence of Islām, Volume 3, Pages 196-198