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Did the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, die poisoned or from the effects of the poison given to him by the Jewish woman?

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The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, ate from a poisoned sheep presented to him by a Jewish woman in Khaybar. The foreleg [of the sheep] informed him that it was poisoned, so he stopped eating. He continued to feel the pain of that poison until the illness from which he passed away. He said: (O Aisha, I still feel the pain from the food I ate in Khaybar, and now I feel my aorta being severed by that poison), which confirms the effect of the poison on his body, peace and blessings be upon him.

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