Salams All, Interesting points made. Being from a Sunni background I was always under the impression that the Prophet (S) died a natural death. The hadith quoted below seems incredibly suspicious to me. Hadith - Bukhari Book 71: Volume7: Hadith No. 610, Ibn 'Abbas and 'Aisha Abu Bakr kissed (the forehead of) the Prophet when he was dead. 'Aisha added: We put medicine in one side of his mouth but he started waving us not to insert the medicine into his mouth. We said, "He dislikes the medicine as a patient usually does." But when he came to his senses he said, "Did I not forbid you to p