Debt · a Light

He died with his armour pledged to a Jewish neighbour

Aisha reported that when the Prophet ﷺ died, his shield was still held as security by a Jewish man of Madinah against a debt of barley taken for his family. The report is in the sound collections and was preserved partly as a legal precedent for pledging property, and partly for what it says about the last weeks of a man who by then headed a state. He owed money for food. He had borrowed from a neighbour of another religion in an ordinary transaction with an ordinary security, and he died before it was settled. In the law that grew from his teaching, debts owed to human beings are not cancelled by death.

Aisha · Madinah, 632 CE