Abstract:
How the Prophet passed away is one of the historical issues that has been shrouded of ambiguity due to the existence of contradictory narrations; In other words, it is not so clear, did the Holy Prophet die a natural death or was he martyred by poisoning? This study has criticized the Shiite and Sunni narrations and the views of the scholars of the two sects on issues such as the cause of the disease, the onset of the disease and the story of giving medicine to the sick Imam (the story of Ludud) by citing authoritative texts. It is examined Shiite and Sunni views and documents on the subject of the cause of the Prophet's demise, and in general t has been concluded that the principle of poisoning of the Holy Prophet has been accepted from the point of view of the vast majority of sectarian scholars; But how and why is due to the many contradictions caused by the political atmosphere after the death of that Imam, and the existence of serious motives in distortion and concealment in an aura of ambiguity.