the great (loss) news was soon known by everybody in madinah. dark grief spread on all areas and horizons of madinah. anas said:

"i have never witnessed a day better or brighter than that day on which the messenger of allâh [pbuh] came to us; and i have never witnessed a more awful or darker day than that one on which the messenger of allâh [pbuh] died on." [mishkat-ul-masabih 2/547]

when he died, fatimah said: "o father, whom his lord responded to his supplication! o father, whose abode is paradise. o father, whom i announce his death to gabriel." [sahih al-bukhari 2/641]