Editing Osman I (section)

== Death ==
[[File:Osman I area map.PNG|thumb|right|The territorial extent of the Ottoman Beylik upon the death of Osman I]]
[[File:Türbe of Osman I, Bursa.jpg|thumb|right|''Türbe'' of Osman I, Bursa]]
According to the sources that say Osman lived to hear of the fall of Bursa, Orhan rushed back to Söğüt to inform his father of his great victory. Once he reached it, he was immediately summoned to Osman, who was on his death-bed. Soon after Osman heard the news, he died from natural causes. However, Osman managed to name Orhan to be his successor, although the latter was not Osman's first-born. Yet the dead Emir believed that Orhan was better fit to rule than his elder half-brother [[Alaeddin Pasha|Alâeddin]], who was more passive and pious than Orhan.<ref name="orhan2"/> As for the exact cause of Osman's death, it is well known that he suffered from [[gout]] for several years, which seemingly caused his eventual death. This is confirmed by what Aşıkpaşazade mentioned in ''Tevarih-i Âl-i Osman'' when he talked about the late period of Osman's life, saying: "Osman had a bad foot from which he experienced severe pain". It is noted that Aşıkpaşazade used a similar expression when he talked about the death of Sultan [[Mehmed the Conqueror]]: "The cause of his death was the issue in his feet". It is now known that gout is a [[Genetic disorder|genetic disease]] in the Ottoman dynasty, and many sultans suffered from it.<ref name="Armağan2">{{cite book|last1=Armağan|first1=Mustafa|title=al-tārīkh al-sirrī lil-Imbarāṭūrīyah al-ʻUthmānīyah; Jawānib ghayr Maʻrūfa min ḥayāt Salāṭīn Banī ʻUthmān|publisher=al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻUlūm Nāshirūn|year=2014|isbn=9786140111226|edition=1st|place=Beirut|pages=11–17|language=ar|translator-last1=Hamza|translator-first1=Mustafa|trans-title=The Secret History of the Ottoman Empire: Unrecognized Aspects of the Life of the Ottoman Sultans}}</ref>

The exact date of Osman's death is debatable. It is said that he died on 21 August 1326 at 70 years old. The 15th-century Ottoman historian Rouhi Çelebi, who wrote down the history of the Ottoman Empire until 1481, indicates that Osman died in 1320. However, Uruç adiloğlu, another Ottoman historian who lived during the time of Sultans Mehmed the Conqueror and [[Bayezid II]] up until 1502, says that Osman died in 1327. Contemporary Turkish historian {{ill|Necdet Sakaoğlu|tr}} states that, despite the absence of documents mentioning Osman's name after the year 1320, there are documents confirming Orhan's ascension to the throne in 1324. Based on this, Osman's death might have occurred in the same or previous year.<ref name="Sakaoğlu2"/><ref name="Armağan2"/> It is also certain that Osman's death was after the death of his father-in-law, [[Sheikh Edebali]], and after the death of his wife, [[Rabia Bala Hatun]], because it is known that Osman buried the two in Bilecik.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.internethaber.com/osman-gazi-ikinci-esi-bala-hatun-kimdir-turbesi-nerede-2187914h.htm|title=Osman Gazi ikinci eşi Bala Hatun kimdir türbesi nerede?|trans-title=Who is Osman Gazi's second wife Bala Hatun; where is her tomb?|website=InternetHaber|date=2 June 2021 |access-date=13 August 2021|language=tr}}</ref>

Once Osman died, Orhan ordered the transfer of his body to Bursa, his new capital. Thus, Osman's body was laid there to rest.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sarhank|first1=Ismaʻīl|title=Tārīkh al-Dawlah al-ʻUthmānīyah|publisher=Dar al-Fikr al-Ḥadīth|year=1988|place=Beirut|page=14|language=ar|trans-title=History of the Ottoman Empire}}</ref> His grave is located today in the neighbourhood of Tophane. The reason behind the transferring Osman's body was due to a will Osman did tell his son about during the early years of besieging Bursa: "My Son, when I die, bury me under that silver dome in Bursa". However, Osman's current tomb dates back to the time of Sultan [[Abdulaziz]] (1861–1876), because the first tomb was completely destroyed in a severe earthquake that struck the region in 1855, it was rebuilt by the aforementioned Sultan. Sultan [[Abdul Hamid II|Abdulhamid II]] (1876–1909) also constructed a shrine in Söğüt where Osman was buried for a while before he was moved to Bursa.<ref name="Armağan2"/>

According to some sources, Osman left a written will to his son Orhan instructing him to move on with conquests and jihad against the Byzantines, that he abides by the teachings of Islam, accompany the ''[[Ulama|ʿUlamāʾ]]'', amend his parish, and dedicates himself to spread the word of Islam.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Abū Ghunaymah|first1=Ziyād|url=https://www.pdf-books.org/book/%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84-%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A8-%D9%85%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A6%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AB%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83-%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88-%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9.html/read|title=Jawānib Muḍīʼah fī tārīkh al-ʻUthmānīyīn al-Atrāk|publisher=Dar al-Furqān li al-nashr wa al-tawzīʻ|year=1983|edition=1st|place=Amman|pages=21–22|language=ar|trans-title=Luminous aspects of the history of the Ottoman Turks}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ḥarb|first1=Muḥammad|url=https://archive.org/details/OttomansHarb/page/n11/mode/2up|title=al-Uthmānīyūn fi al-Tārīkh wa al-Ḥaḍārah|publisher=Egyptian Center for Ottoman Studies and Turkish World Researches|year=1994|place=Cairo|page=12|language=ar|trans-title=The Ottomans in history and civilization|access-date=22 April 2020}}</ref>