The following passages have been
paraphrased from Mir’ât-i-kâinât. That book
gives also the sources of most of the miracles related, yet we have not written
the sources. And we have abridged most of the miracles.
There are a considerable number
of witnesses testifying to the fact that Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ is the true Prophet. Allâhu
ta’âlâ acclaims him with the following complimentary
inspiration: “Had it not been for thee, (O My beloved Messenger,) I would not
have created anything!” All beings signify not
only the existence and unity of Allâhu ta’âlâ, but also the prophethood and the superior virtues of Muhammad
‘alaihis-salâm’. All the miracles, (which are called kerâmat,) that happen
through the Awliyâ among his Ummat (Muslims) are, in actual fact, his miracles,
(which are called mu’jiza, as we have explained earlier). For kerâmats happen
through people who follow him and adapt themselves to him. In fact, because all
the other Prophets ‘alaihim-us-salawâtu wa-t-taslîmât’ yearned to be among his
Ummat (Muslims), or, rather, because all of them were created from his nűr
(light, halo), their miracles, too, may be said to be Muhammad’s
‘alaihis-salâm’ miracles. Qasîda-i-Burda, by
Imâm-Busayrî [d. 695 (1295 C.E.), Egypt], is a pulchritudinous expression of
this fact.
With respect to time, the
miracles of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ fall into three categories:
In the first category are those miracles that took place in the period beginning with
the creation of his blessed soul and ending with his Bi’ that, (which is the time when Allâhu ta’âlâ appointed him His Messenger, which He notified to him through His
angel Jebrâîl ‘alaihis-salâm’).
The second category consists of those which took place within the time from the
Bi’that to his transposition to the Hereafter.
Into the third category
fall his miracles that have happened since
his passing away, as well as those which will take place till the end of the
world.
Miracles in the first category
are called Irhâs, i.e. the beginners. Each
category is divided into two classes: Miracles that
were seen; and those which are inferred mentally. All these
miracles are so many that it has never been possible to tally them. Miracles in
the second category are estimated to be around three thousand. We shall relate
eighty-six of them in the following paragraphs.
1- The greatest miracle of Muhammad
‘alaihis-salâm’ is the Qur’ân al-kerîm. All the
poets and men of literature that have come up to today have acknowledged their
shortcoming and admiration about the poetic and semantic superiority of the Qur’ân al-kerîm. They have not been able to rehearse a
literary piece approximating to the sublime standard of any one of its âyats.
With respect to eloquence and rhetoric, it is quite dissimilar to the human
language. A single verbal addition or excision spoils the beauty in its
phraseology and purport. Efforts to substitute even one of its words have
proven futile. Its poetic style is unlike any one of those of Arabian poets. It
informs about many a past and present event. The more you read it or hear it,
the more enthusiasm will you feel to read or hear it. Tired as you normally may
be, you never feel bored. It is a fact established with innumerable events
experienced that reading it or listening to someone reading it cures
melancholy. Awe-strickenness or sudden feelings of fear upon hearing it being
read or recited are not rare events, and some people have even died with its
effect. Many implacably inimical hearts became mollified when they heard the Qur’ân al-kerîm being read or recited, and their
owners became Believers. Some enemies of Islam, particularly those insidious
heretics disguised in Muslim names, i.e. the groups called Muattalâ, Melâhida
and Qarâmita, attempted to change, to defile, and to substitute the Qur’ân al-kerîm, yet their attempts ended in
disillusionment. The Torah and the Bible, on the other hand, have been changed
continuously, and they are still being changed, by people. The Qur’ân al-kerîm contains information about all
scientific facts, including those that cannot be obtained by way of
experimentation, beautiful ethical principles and methods that will equip a
person with superior merits, goodnesses that will bring happiness in this world
and the next, the earliest creatures as well as the last ones, and things from
which man can reap benefits as well as those which will cause harm, and all
these things are stated expressly or symbolically. And there are people who can
understand the symbolical statements. The Qur’ân
al-kerîm is an embodiment of all the open and hidden facts
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contained
in the Torah, in the Bible, and in the Zebűr.[1] Allâhu ta’âlâ, alone, knows all the information contained
in the Qur’ân al-kerîm. He has intimated most of
it to His beloved Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’. Alî and
Huseyn ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhumâ’ stated that
they knew a major part of that knowledge. It is a grand blessing to read the Qur’ân al-kerîm. Allâhu ta’âlâ
has bestowed this blessing on the Ummat (People) of His Habîb (beloved one,
darling, i.e. Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’), (that is, on Muslims). Angels are
deprived of this blessing. For this reason, they gather together at places
where people are reading the Qur’ân al-kerîm and
listen to it. All the books of tafsîr explain only a tiny part of the information
contained in the Qur’ân al-kerîm. On the Day of
Judgement, Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ shall mount the minbar and recite the Qur’ân al-kerîm. People who listen to him will
understand it in its entirety.
2- One of the greatest and
universally known miracles of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ is his dividing the moon
into two. No other Prophet was blessed with this miracle. Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ was
fifty-two years old. One day, in Mekka, the chieftains of Qoureishi unbelievers
came to him and challenged, “If you are the Prophet, divide the moon into two.” Feeling a strong yearning that
everybody, especially his kith and kin should join the Believers, Muhammad
‘alaihis-salâm’ raised his hands and invoked. Allâhu
ta’âlâ accepted his invocation and divided the moon into
two. One half of the moon was on a mountain, while the other half appeared on
another. The unbelievers said, “Muhammad performs magic,” and they persisted on
their denial. A stanza reads as follows:
When dogs look at the moon, they bark.
Why should we blame the moon? Hark!
You know, a dog will always bark!
And a distich:
Loss of taste is symptomatic of loss of health,
Delicious drinks taste bitter to one
with bad health.
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[1] The Holy Book which Allâhu ta’âlâ sent down to Dâwűd ‘alaihis-salâm’
(David). That Holy Book was in the Hebrew language. Christians call it ‘The
Psalms’.
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3- In some Holy Wars, at times
of shortage of water, Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ put his blessed hand into a
container, water poured down from between his fingers, and the container
continuously overflowed with water. The number of people who consumed that
water was sometimes eighty, sometimes three hundred, sometimes fifteen hundred,
and sometimes, e.g. in the Holy War of Tabuk, seventy thousand, the number of
their animals excluded. The pouring of water stopped when he took his blessed
hand out of the container.
4- One day he visited his
paternal uncle Abbâs in his home. He asked his uncle and his uncle’s children
to sit beside him. Then he covered them with ihrâm[1] and invoked, “Yâ Rabbî (O my Allah)! This is my uncle and my father’s brother. Andthese people
are my Ahl-i bayt. Cover them and protect them from Hell-fire, as I cover them
with this blanket.” A voice that seemed to be
coming from the walls said, “Âmîn,” three times.
5- One day, when some people
asked him to show them a miracle, he called to a tree in the distance, asking
it to come before him. The tree uprooted itself, moved towards him, with its
roots dragging behind, came before him, greeted him, (i.e., said “As-salâmu
’alaikum,”) and said, “Esh-hadu an Lâ ilâha illâ-Allah, wa esh-hadu anna Muhammadan
’abduhu wa Rasűluh”, (which means, “I believe in and
testify to that Allâhu ta’âlâ exists and He is One. And again, I believe in and testify to that
Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ is His born slave and His Messenger.”) Then it moved
back to its place and resumed its stand.
6- During the Holy War of
Hayber, when they put poisoned mutton kebâb on the table before him, a voice
was heard to say, “Yâ Rasűlallah (O the Messenger of Allah)! Don’t eat me. I am
poisoned.”
7- One day he said to a man with
an idol in his hand, “Will you become a Believer if the idol speaks to me?” The man defied, “I have been worshipping it for fifty years, and
it has never said a word to me. How will it speak to you now?” When Muhammad
‘alaihis-salâm’ asked, “O thou idol! Who am I?” a
voice was heard to say, “You are the Prophet of Allah.” Upon this the owner of the idol joined the Believers.
8- There was a date stump in the
Masjîd-i-Nabawî (the
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[1] Seamless garment warn by Muslim
pilgrims in Mekka. Please see the seventh chapter in the fifth fascicle of Endless
Bliss.
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Prophet’s Mosque) in Medina. Rasűlullah
‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ would lean on that stump whenever he made (the
speech called) Khutba. The stump was called Hannâna. When a minbar (pulpit in a
mosque) was made, he did not go to the stump to lean on it. The entire
congregation heard a voice crying from within it. The blessed Messenger
dismounted the minbar and gave Hannâna a hug. It was no longer crying now. The
Best of Mankind ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ explained, “Had I not hugged it,
separation from me would make it cry till the doom of the world.”
Many other similar miracles were
seen and reported.
9- Another frequently seen event
was that gravels or pieces of food in his hand would say tasbîh of Allâhu ta’âlâ like the droning of bees. (That
is, they would say, “Subhânallah,” which means, “I know Allâhu ta’âlâ far from all sorts of
imperfection.”)
10- One day an unbeliever came
to him and said, “How do I know that you are a Prophet?” Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ asked, “Will you believe in me
if I beckon to thatcluster of dates on that palm and they (obey me and) come to me?” The
unbeliever replied he would. When the Messenger of Allah beckoned the cluster
of dates came, jumping. When the Messenger of Allah ordered, “Go back to your
place,” the entire cluster went up to its place, hanging
there as before. Upon seeing this, the unbeliever became a Believer.
11- In Mekka a pack of wolves
attacked a flock of sheep and dragged away one of the sheep. When the shepherd
charged at them and grappled the sheep back, one of the wolves began to talk,
remonstrating, “Aren’t you afraid of Allâhu ta’âlâ, that you deprive us of our food, which Allâhu ta’âlâ has sent to us?” Astounded, the
shepherd mumbled, “Oh, a wolf talks!” The wolf went on, “Shall I tell you
something which is even more surprising? Muhammad ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi
wa sallam’, the Prophet of Allâhu ta’âlâ, is displaying miracles in Medina.” The shepherd went to
Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, related what had happened, and
became a Muslim.
12- Muhammad ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ
’alaihi wa sallam’ was strolling through a field, when he heard a voice saying,
“Yâ Rasűlallah (O the Messenger of Allah)!” three times. He turned to the
direction whence the voice came, to see a deer tied up. By its side slept a
man. He asked the deer what she wanted. “This
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hunter has ensnared me,” whimpered the deer. “I have two sucklings
on the hill over there. Please do let me go! I’ll go, milk them, and come
back.” The Prophet ‘alaihis-salâm’ asked, “Will you keep your
promise and come back?” The deer pledged, “I
promise in the name of Allâhu ta’âlâ that I shall come back. If I don’t, then may the torment of Allâhu ta’âlâ be on me!” The Messenger of
Allah set the deer free. She ran away, coming back sometime later. The
Messenger of Allah tied her again. When the man woke up and asked, “O the
Messenger of Allah! Is there something you want to order me to do?” the Prophet stated, “Emancipate this deer!” The deer was so happy that she stomped her two feet on the
ground, exclaimed, “Ash-hadu an Lâ ilâha illâ-Allah wa annaka Rasűlullah (I believe in and testify to that Allah exists and He is One and
you are His Messenger),” and capered away.
13- One day he invited a
villager to become a Believer. The villager defied, “I have a Muslim neighbor.
I will believe in you if you resuscitate his dead daughter. They went to the girl’s
grave, where Rasűlullah pronounced her name aloud and called her. A voice
answered from the grave, and she came out. “Would you like to come back to the
world,” questioned the Messenger of Allah. The girl said,
“Yâ Rasűlallah! I do not want to go back to the world. I feel more comfortable
here than I used to back in my father’s home. A Muslim is better off in the
Hereafter than in the world. When the villager saw this he joined the
Believers.
14- Jâbir bin Abdullah ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ roasted a sheep.
Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ and his Sahâba[1] ate it. “Do not break the
bones,” ordered the blessed Messenger. He gathered the bones
together, put his blessed hands on them, and prayed. Allâhu ta’âlâ enlivened the sheep.
15- A child was brought to
Rasűlullah. It could not talk, though it was old enough. “Who am I?” asked the Messenger. The child replied, “You are the Messenger of
Allah.” From then on he began to talk and did not lose its speech till death.
16- Someone inadvertently
stepped on the eggs of a snake and lost his sight entirely. They brought him to
Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
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[1] A Muslim who saw, or talked to the
Messenger of Allah at least once when the Messenger was alive is called a
Sahabî. The Sahâba or the As-hâb-i-kirâm means all the Sahabîs, i.e. the
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’alaihi wa sallam’. When he put his blessed spittle on the man’s
eyes, he began to see again. In fact, he was eighty years old when he still could
thread a needle.
17- Muhammad bin Khatîb relates:
“I was small. Boiling water poured on me, scalding my body all over. My father
took me to Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’. The Messenger put
his blessed spittle on the scalded parts of my body and prayed. I recovered
immediately.”
18- A woman came with her bald
son. The Messenger of Allah rubbed his blessed hands gently on the boy’s head.
He healed. His hair began to grow.
19- According to a report which
is written in two different books of Sunan written by
Tirmuzî and Nesâî, one day a man with both eyes blind came to him and implored,
“Yâ Rasűlallah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’! Please pray to Allâhu ta’âlâ so that I should regain my
sight.” The Messenger of Allah recommended him the following prescription: “Make a faultless
ablution! And then invoke like this: Yâ Rabbî (O
my Allah)! I beg Thee. I ask of Thee through the intercession of Thy beloved Prophet Muhammad
‘alaihis-salâm’. O my darling Prophet Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’! I beg my Rabb
through thee. I ask Him to give me for thine sake. Yâ Rabbî! Make this exalted Prophet my intercessor! For
his sake, accept my invocation!” The man
made an ablution and said the prayer. His eyes opened at once. Muslims have
always said this prayer and attained their goals.
20- One day the Messenger of
Allah and (his paternal uncle) Abű Tâlib were making a trek across a desert.
Abű Tâlib said he was very thirsty. Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa
sallam’ dismounted the animal and said, “Are you (thirsty)?” When he hit the ground with his blessed heel, water sprang up. He
said, “Uncle,
drink from this water!”
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During the Holy War of Hudaybiya they encamped by a waterless well. The
soldiers complained about the shortage of water. The Messenger of Allah asked
for a bucket of water. He made an ablution with the water in the bucket, then
spat into it, and then had the water in it poured into the well. Then he
fetched an arrow and threw it down into the well. Upon this the well was seen
to fill up with water.
22- In another Holy War the
soldiers complained that they did
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not have enough water. The Messenger ‘alaihis-salâm’ sent two
soldiers to look for water. They came back with a woman riding a camel. She had
two qirbas of water. (A qirba is a leather container which was formerly used to
carry fresh water.) The Messenger ‘alaihis-salâm’ asked the woman for some
water. He poured the water that she gave into a container. The entire army
utilized the water in the container. The soldiers made a queue, filled their
own containers and tulums (goat-skin bottles). In return, they gave the woman
some dates and filled her tulums, too. The Prophet ‘alaihis-salâm’ said to her, “We have not decreased the amount of
your water. It is
Allâhu ta’âlâ who gave us the water.”
23- He was making (the speech
termed) Khutba in Medina, when someone said, “Yâ Rasűlallah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ
’alaihi wa sallam’! Our children, animals and fields are perished with drought.
Please do come to our rescue!” The Prophet raised his blessed hands and said his prayer. It was a cloudless
day, yet he had hardly rubbed his blessed hands on his face when clouds covered
the entire sky. Presently rain poured down. It rained continuously for several
days. He was on the minbar preaching, again, when the same person complained,
“Yâ Rasűlallah! We will perish with this rain.” Upon this the Rasűl
‘alaihis-salâm’ gave his usual radiant smile, and invoked, “Yâ Rabbî! Bestow Thy
Compassion on Thy other slaves aswell!” The clouds
cleared away and the sun shone brightly.
24- Jâbir bin Abdullah ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ relates: I was badly in
debt. I told Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ about it. He
came in the yard of my house and walked around the pile of dates, making three
rounds. Then he ordered, “Bid your creditors to come here.” Each creditor was given his due, and there was no decrease in the
pile of dates.
25- A woman sent some honey as a present.
The Messenger ‘alaihis-salâm’ accepted the honey, sending the empty container
back. Some time later the container came back, full of honey again. The woman
was there in person this time. She said, “O the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’! Why don’t you
accept my present? What is the sin that I have committed?” The blessed Prophet said, “We have accepted your present. The honey that
you see is the barakat which Allâhu ta’âlâ has given you in
return for yourpresent.” The woman and her children ate the
honey for months. It never decreased. One day they inconsiderately put the
honey into another container. When
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they
ate it from that container, the honey was finished soon. When they reported
this event to the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’, he stated, “If the honey had remained in the
container that I had sent back, there would be no decrease in the honey even if
they ate it till the end of the world.”
26- Abű Hureyra reports: I went
to the Messenger of Allah with a few dates and asked him to invoke a blessing
on them. He prayed so that they would have barakat, and warned me, “Take them and put them
in your container. Whenever youneed dates, pick them with your hand. Never
attempt to pour them lest they should scatter around.” I always kept the bag containing the dates with me, day and
night, and ate them continually till the time of ’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’.
They were so abundant that people who were with me for various occasions ate
plenty of dates, and I gave handfuls of dates as alms. On the day when ’Uthmân
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ was martyred, the bag with the dates disappeared.
27- Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa-sallam’, like Suleymân (Solomon) ‘alaihis-salâm’, understood
all sorts of animal language. Animals would frequently come to him and complain
about their owners or other people. Events of this sort were seen by others
many times. Each time an animal came to him, the Messenger of Allah would
explain it to the As-hâb-i-kirâm (his Companions). During the Holy War of
Hunayn, he said to the white mule named DULDUL which he was riding: “Get down.” When Duldul knelt down with the command, he took a handful of
sand from the ground and scattered it over the unbelievers.
28- Another frequently seen
miracle of the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ is his
informing about the unknown. There are three different groups of these
miracles:
The first group of miracles
consists of questions he was asked about events previous to his time. The
answers he gave to these questions caused many unbelievers and implacable
enemies to embrace Islam.
In the second group are his
miracles whereby he informed about the events that happened during his time as
well as those which were going to happen later.
The third group embodies his
prophesies of the events that will happen in the world till Doomsday and also
those which will happen in the Hereafter. We shall tell about some of the
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in the second and third groups.
[During the early years of the
call to Islam some of the As-hâb-i-kirâm migrated to Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
because of the persecutions perpetrated by the unbelievers. The Messenger of
Allah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ and the Sahâbîs who stayed with him in
Mekka lived for three years under multifarious embargo which deprived them of
all sorts of social activity; so much so that they were not allowed to visit,
to talk with or to trade with anyone except their Muslim co-religionists. The
unbelievers of Qoureish wrote a unilateral pact containing the paragraphs of
that embargo and hung it on the wall of Ka’ba-i-muazzama. Allâhu ta’âlâ, the Almighty, set a worm
called Arza
upon that written document. That tiny worm ate up the
entire document, with the exception of the part containing the expression Bismikallâhumma = in the name of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Allâhu ta’âlâ informed our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ about this event through
Jibrîl-i-emîn (Gabriel the trustworthy). And our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, in his turn, told his paternal
uncle Abű Tâlib about it. The following day Abű Tâlib went to the eminent ones
of the unbelievers and conveyed to them what the blessed Prophet had told him, adding,
“Muhammad’s Rabb (Allah) told him so. If his allegation proves to be true, then
raise that embargo and do not prevent them from going about and seeing other
people like before. If it is not true, I shall no longer protect him.” The
eminent ones of Qoureish accepted this suggestion. They gathered together and
went to Ka’ba. They took the written pact down, opened it, and saw that, as
Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ had stated, all the writings had
been eaten up, and only the expression Bismikallâhumma had remained intact.]
Husrav, the Persian emperor, had
sent envoys to Medina. One day Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ sent
for them and, when they came, said to them, “Tonight your Chosroes was killed by his
own son.” Some time later intelligence
was received that Chosroes had been killed by his own son. [Iranian Shahs are
called Chosroes.]
29- One day he said to his wife
Hafsa ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhâ’, “Abű Bakr and your father will preside over my Ummat.” By saying so, he gave the good news that Abű Bakr and Hafsa’s
father ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhum’ were going to be Khalîfas.
30- He had put Abű Hureyra ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ in
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charge of the dates that had been (given by rich people as the
zakât of their property and) brought to Medina. Abű Hureyra ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’
caught someone stealing dates. He told the man that he would take him to the Messenger
of Allah. Yet when the man said that he was poor and had a crowded family to
support, he succumbed to his beggings and set him free. The following day, the
Messenger of Allah sent for Abű Hureyra and asked him, “What had the man that
you caught last night done?” When Abű
Hureyra related what had happened, the blessed Prophet said, “He deceived you. He will come back.”Indeed, the following night the man came again and was caught. He
begged again, “For the sake of Allah, let me go,” and was let go again. The
third night his begging was no good. So this time he had recourse to another
method. “If you let me go I’ll teach you something which will be very useful to
you,” he proposed. When Abű Hureyra accepted it, he said, “If you recite (the
âyat of the Qur’ân al-kerîm termed) Âyat al-kursî before you go to bed
every night, Allâhu ta’âlâ will protect you and Satan will never approach you,” and left.
The next day, when Rasűlullah asked Abű Hureyra what had happened the previous
night, he told him everything. Upon this the Messenger said, “He told the truth this
time. However, He is an abject liar. Do you know who you have been talking with
for three nights?” “No, I don’t.” “That person was
Satan.”
31- He sent troops to a region
called Műta to fight against the armies of the Byzantine Emperor. Four of the
Sahâbîs, who were the commanders of the troops, were martyred, one after
another. In the meantime the blessed Messenger was in Medina, preaching on the
Minbar. Allâhu ta’âlâ showed him
one by one all four martyrdoms, and he in turn related the events to the people
with him.
32- As he was sending Mu’adh bin
Jabal ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ as the governor to Yemen, he saw him to the city borders
and gave him plenty of advice, finally saying, “You and I cannot meet
again till the Rising Day.” Mu’adh was still in the
Yemen when Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ passed away in
Medina.
33- As he was passing away, he
said to his daughter Fâtima, “Of all my relatives, you will be the first to
meet me again.” It was six months later when
Fâtima ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhâ’ passed away, and no other relative of the Prophet had passed away yet.
34- He said to Qays bin Shemmâs
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, “You
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will lead a beautiful
life and then die as a martyr.” Qays
attained martyrdom in the battle fought against Musaylama-t-ul Kazzâb in Yamâma
during the caliphate of Abű Bakr ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’.
He also foretold of the
martyrdoms of ’Umar-ul-Fârűq, ’Uthmân, and ’Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în’.
35- He gave the good news that
the lands belonging to the Persian emperor Chosroes and the Byzantine Kaiser
would be conquered by the Muslims and their treasuries would be spent and
dispensed for the sake of Allah.
36- He prophesied that a
considerable number of his Ummat would go out for a Holy War on the sea and
that Umm-u-Hirâm ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhâ’, one of the Sahâba, would be in that Holy War. During the
caliphate of ’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’, the Muslims sailed to Cyprus and made a war there. The
blessed woman mentioned above was with them. She attained martyrdom there.
37- One day the Rasűl
‘alaihis-salâm’ was sitting on a raised place. He turned to the people with him
and said, “Do you see what I see? I swear (in
the name of Allah) that I see the fitna (mischief,
insurrection, malice) that will take place amongst your houses and in the streets.” During the days when ’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ was martyred,
and also in the time of Yezîd, great commotions erupted in Medina, many people
were slain and blood flowed along the streets.
38- One day he foretold of an event wherein
one of hiswives would revolt against the Khalîfa. When Âisha ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhâ’, (his beloved wife,) was amused
at his words, he said, “Yâ Humeyrâ[1] Do not forget this word of mine! Mightn’ t you
as well be that woman!” Then he turned to Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu
’anh’ and said, “If you should have the authority to decide about her, behave
tenderly towardsher!” It was thirty years later when Âisha
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhâ’ made a war against Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, (who was the
Khalîfa at that time,) suffered a defeat and was held captive. Alî
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ showed her kindness and deference and sent her from Basra
to Medina.
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[1] A word of endearment which our
blessed Prophet called his blessedwife, Hadrat
Âisha, the (spiritual) mother of all Muslims.
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39- He said to Mu’âwiya ‘radiy-Allâhu
’anh’ [d. 60 (680 C.E.), Damascus], “If you should dominate over my Ummatone day,
reward those people who do goodness, and forgive the malefactors!” Mu’âwiya ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ was the governor of Damascus for
twenty years during the caliphate of ’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, and later he
occupied the office of caliphate for twenty years.
40- One day he said, “Mu’âwiya will never
suffer a defeat.” When Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ heard about this hadîth-i-sherîf during the battle of
Siffîn he said, “I would never have fought against Mu’âwiya ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’
had I heard about it before.”
41- He said to Ammar bin Yâser
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’, “You will be killed by
rebellious people, by bâghîs.” Indeed,
Ammar attained martyrdom as Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ and he was fighting against
Mu’âwiya ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’.
42- He said about Hasan, his
daughter Fâtima’s son ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhumâ’, “This son of mine is a source of khayr (goodness). Owing to him, Allâhu ta’âlâ will make peace between
two great armies of Muslims.” Years
later, he was about to enter into a war against Mu’âwiya ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’,
when he decided to give up and renounced his right of caliphate to Mu’âwiya
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ in order to prevent fitna and consequent bloodshed of
Muslims.
43- Abdullah bin Zubeyr ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhumâ’ saw Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ being cupped, and drank the blood coming out. When
the blessed Messenger noticed this he stated, “Do you know the things that you
willsuffer from people? And they will suffer much from you. The fire of Hell
will not burn you.” When Abdullah bin Zubeyr
declared himself the Khalîfa in Mekka years later, Abd-ul-melik bin Merwan sent
a huge army under the command of Hajjâj from Damascus. Abdullah was caught and
killed.
44- One day he looked at
Abdullah ibni Abbâs’s mother ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în’ and said, “You are goingto have a son. Bring him to me
when he is born!” Later, when the baby was born,
they brought it to him. He recited the azân and the iqâmat into its ears and
put his blessed spittle into its mouth.
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He named it ‘Abdullah’ and gave it back to its mother. “Take the father of
Khalîfas with you!” he said. When Abbâs
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ heard about it, he visited the blessed Prophet and politely asked him why he
had said so. The Prophet explained, “Yes, I said so. This child is the father of Khalîfas.
Among them there will be (a person named) Seffâh, (one named) Mahdî, and a person who will perform namâz with Îsâ
‘alaihis-salâm’.” Many Khalîfas presided over the
Abbasid state. All of them descended from Abdullah bin Abbâs.
45- One day he stated, “Among my Ummat there
willcome numerous people called Râfidî. They will leave the Islamic religion.”
46- He pronounced benedictions
over many of his Sahâba, all his benedictions were accepted and were of benefit
to the people concerned.
Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ related: Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ wanted to send me as the Qâdî [Judge] to Yemen. I
said, “Yâ Rasűlallah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’! I do not know the
job of a qâdî.” He put his blessed hand on my chest and invoked, “Yâ Rabbî! Intimate to
this person’s heart whatever is right. Bless him with the quality of always telling
the truth!” From then on I always sensed
the right one among the complaints that came to me and my decisions were always
correct.
47- The ten people whom the Messenger of
Allah gratified with the good news that they would go to Paradise are called ’Ashara-i-mubashshara.
Sa’d bin Ebî Waqqâs ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ was one of them. In the Holy War of
Uhud the blessed Messenger invoked a blessing on him, saying, “Yâ Rabbî! Make his
arrows reach their targets and also accept his invocations!”
From then on all the prayers Sa’d said were accepted, and every arrow he threw
hit the enemy.
48- He put his blessed hands on
the forehead of his paternal uncle’s son, Abdullah bin Abbâs ‘radiy-Allâhu
’anhumâ’ and made the following prayer: “Yâ Rabbî! Make this person aprofound scholar
in the religion and an owner of hikmat! Bestow on him the knowledge of the
Qur’ân al-kerim!” From then on, he was peerless in
his time in all branches of knowledge, especially in tafsîr, in hadîth, and in
fiqh. The Sahâba and the Tâbi’în[1] learned from him
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[1] As we have explained earlier, a
person who saw or spoke with the Messenger of Allah at least once, he is called
a Sahâbî. If a person did not see the Prophet
but if he saw or spoke with at least one Sahâbî, he is called Tâbi’. The plural form of Tâbi’ is Tâbi’în, which means those fortunate people
who saw at least one of the Sahâba. People who did not see at least one Sahâbî,
but who saw at least one of the Tâbi’în, are called Taba-i-Tâbi’în.
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whatever they wanted to know. He made fame with nicknames such as
‘Terjumân-ul-Qur’ân’, ‘Bahr-ul-’ilm’, and ‘Raîs-ul-mufassirîn’.[1] His numerous disciples enriched the Muslim countries.
49- He pronounced the following
benediction for Enes bin Mâlik ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’, one of his servants: “Yâ Rabbî! Make his property abundant
and children numerous. Makehis life long, and forgive him his sins!” As time passed, there was a gradual increase in his property. His
orchards and vineyards yielded plenty of fruit every year. The number of his
children reached beyond one hundred. He lived for a hundred and ten years.
Towards the end of his life he supplicated, “Yâ Rabbî! Thou hast accepted three
of the benedictions that Thy Beloved one pronounced over me, and Thou hast
given me all these blessings. I wonder if Thou willst accept the fourth one and
forgive me my sins?” A voice was heard to say, “I have accepted the
fourth one as well. Keep your heart good!”
50- He invoked the following
blessing on Mâlik bin Rebî’a ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’: “May you have profuse progeny!” Mâlik
had eighty sons.
51- There was a widely-known
poet named Nâbigha. When he recited some of his poems the blessed Messenger
invoked on him the following blessing, which was widerspread among the Arabs: “May Allâhu ta’âlâ not let your teeth
fall down!”Nâbigha was a hundred years old,
and his white teeth still shone like beads of pearls.
52- He said the following prayer
about Urwa bin Ju’d ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’: “Yâ Rabbî! Make his trade prolific!” Urwa acknowledges: “From then on, all my trade activities brought
in profits. I never lost.
53- One day his daughter Fâtima
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anha’
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[1] These terms mean,
respectively, ‘Interpreter of the Qur’ân’, ‘Ocean of knowledge’, and ‘Chief of Mufassirîn (Scholars deeply learned enough
to explain the Qur’ân
al-kerîm).
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came near him, white with hunger. He put his blessed hand on her
bosom and invoked: “O my Rabb (Allah), Who satiates hungry
people! Do not let Fâtima the daughter of Muhammad go hungry!” Presently Fâtima’s face became healthful and lively. She never
felt hungry again till death.
54- He pronounced a benediction
on Abd-ur-Rahmân bin Awf, who was one of the ’Ashara-i-mubashshara. There was
such a great increase in his property that he became a subject of folk-tale.
55- He stated, “Every Prophet’s prayers are
accepted. And every Prophet invoked blessings on their ummats. And I am
praying for a permission to intercede for my Ummat on the Judgement Day.
Inshâ-Allah, my prayer willbe accepted. I shall intercede for all, except
polytheists.”
56- He went to some villages in
Mekka and did his best to persuade the villagers to become Believers. They
refused. He pronounced a malediction over them so that they should suffer a
catastrophe similar to the famine that had befallen the Egyptians in the time
of the Prophet Yűsuf (Joseph) ‘alaihis-salâtu
wassalâm’. That year famine struck the area, and the villagers ate carrion.
57- ’Utayba, a son of the Prophet’s uncle Abű Lahab, was at the same time the Prophet’s ‘alaihis-salâtu wassalâm’ son-in-law. That
person not only persisted in his denial of the Messenger of Allah, but also
caused bitter grief to that Sarwar (Master of Prophets, Best of Mankind)
‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’. He divorced his wife Ummu Ghulthum, the Prophet’s blessed daughter. He even hurled some vulgar
invectives at her. Deeply grieved, the Darling of Allâhu
ta’âlâ supplicated, “Yâ Rabbî! Set one of Thine canines on him!”
Before long, ’Utayba and his friends set out for a trade expedition to
Damascus. Enroute, they made a halt for the night. They were sound asleep, when
they had a silent intruder, a lion. The fierce animal smelled all the members
of the group one by one. When it came to ’Utayba, it grabbed him and tore him
to pieces.
58- There was a person who
always ate with his left hand. When the Prophet said to him, “Eat with your right hand,” the unfortunate man had recourse to lying and said that his right
hand would not move. “May your right hand never move again,” was the Prophet’s malediction. That person was never able to move
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his right hand towards his mouth till his death.
59- He sent a letter to the
Persian Emperor Husrav Perviz, calling him to Islam. Being an ignominious
person, Husrav tore the letter to pieces and martyred the envoy who had brought
him the letter. Upon hearing about this, the Rasűl ‘alaihis-salâm’ felt badly
disappointed and invoked evil on the emperor, saying, “Yâ Rabbî! Tear his
property to pieces, in the same as hetore my letter!” Rasűlullah was still alive when Husrav was sliced with a dagger
by his own son Shîravayh. And later, during the caliphate of ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’, Muslims conquered the entire
Persia, so that there was neither progeny nor property left from Husrav.
60- As the Rasűl ‘alaihis-salâm’
gave advice and performed amr-i-ma’rűf and nahy-i-munker[1] in the marketplace, a
villain named Hakem bin Âs, who was at the same time Merwân’s father, followed
Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ from behind, closed his eyes
in mockery and pulled funny faces. When the Messenger ‘alaihis-salâm’ turned
back and saw him, he accursed, “May you remain as you represent yourself to
be.” So the villain’s face maintained its funny pull
until his death.
61- Allâhu ta’âlâ always protected His Habîb
(Darling) against disasters. Abű Jahl was the most implacable enemy of the
Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’. One day, that avowed
unbeliever took a big stone and raised it to hit the Prophet’s blessed head. Suddenly he saw
two snakes on Rasűlullah’s shoulders, one on each shoulder. He dropped the
stone and took to his heels.
62- One day the Messenger of
Allah was performing (the prayer termed) namâz beside the Kâ’ba-i-muazzama,
when that same villain, Abű Jahl, grabbed the opportunity and tiptoed towards
the blessed Messenger with a dagger in his hand. Suddenly he stopped, agape
with fright, turned back and ran away. When afterwards his friends asked him
what had made him run away in such terror, he explained, “Suddenly a ditch of
fire appeared between me and Muhammad ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’,
and quite a number of people were awaiting me. If I
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[1] To perform amr-i-ma’rűf and
nahy-i-munker means to encourage others to obey the commandments of Allâhu ta’âlâ and to admonish them from committing
His prohibitions.
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had made one more step they would catch me and hurl me into the
fire. When the Muslims heard about the event, they asked Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ what the matter had been. The blessed Messenger
explained, “The angels of Allâhu ta’âlâ would catch him and
tear him topieces.”
63- During the Holy War of Qatfân in the third year of the Hijrat (Hegira), the Rasűl
‘alaihis-salâm’ was lying under a tree, alone, when an unbeliever named Da’sűr,
who was a wrestler at the same time, came with a sword in his hand and said,
“Who will rescue you from me now?” “Allah will,” was
Rasűlullah’s answer. When the blessed Messenger said so, the angel named
Jebrâîl appeared in human guise and hit the unbeliever on the chest. He fell
down and dropped the sword on the ground. The Rasűl ‘alaihis-salâm’ took the
sword in his hand and said, “Who will rescue you from me?” The man begged, “There is not a person better than you are to
rescue me.” The blessed Prophet forgave him and let him go. The man joined the Believers and caused
many other people to embrace Islam.
64- In the fourth year of the
Hijrat, as Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ was talking with
his Sahâba under the walls of the fortress belonging to the Jews in Benî Nadîr, a Jew intended to throw down a big mill-stone. As soon as he held
out his hand to hold the stone, his both hands became crippled.
65- It was the ninth year of the Hegira, and
crowds of people were coming from distant countries to embrace Islam. Two
unbelievers named Âmir and Erbed mixed into the masses (with the intention to
kill Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’). As Âmir feigned that he wanted to become a
Muslim before Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ
’alaihi wa sallam’, Erbed prowled behind the Holy Prophet.
When he attempted to unsheathe his sword, his hand would not move, as if
paralyzed. Âmir, just opposite him, made a sign as if to say, “Why are you
dithering?” Upon this the Rasűl ‘alaihis-salâm’ stated, “Allâhu ta’âlâ has protected me from
the harm of you two.” When the two villains left together, Âmir
asked Erbed why he had not abided by his promise. The latter explained, “How
could I have? I attempted to draw my sword a couple of times. At each attempt I
saw you between us?” A few days later, on a sunny day, suddenly the sky was
covered with clouds and Erbed and his camel ware stricken to death by a
thunderbolt.
66- One day the Messenger
‘alaihis-salâm’ made an ablution,
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put on one of his mests,[1] and was about to put on the other one, when a bird came
fluttering, snatched the mest and shook it in the air. A snake fell out of the
mest. Then the bird left the mest on the ground and flew away. From that day
on, it has been sunnat[2] to shake your shoes before putting them on.
67- The Rasűl ‘alaihis-salâm’
had appointed special guards to protect him in Holy Wars and in deserts. When
the sixty-seventh âyat-i-kerîma of Mâida Sűra was revealed, which purports, “Allah will protect
thee from the harms of human beings,” he gave up
the practice of having personal guards. He would walk about alone among the
enemies and sleep alone without feeling any fear.
68- Enes bin Mâlik ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ had a handkerchief with
which the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ had dried
his blessed face once. Enes would dry his face with that handkerchief and put
it in a fire when it became dirty. The dirts would burn while the handkerchief
remained unburnt and became extremely clean.
69- He drank water out of a
bucket pulled up from a well and then poured the remaining water back into the
well. From that time on the well always smelled of musk.
70- ’Urwa bin Firqad
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ caught the illness termed rash. The Rasűl ‘alaihis-salâm’
took his clothes off, spat on his own blessed hands, and rubbed his body with
his hands. The patient recovered. For a long time his body smelled of musk.
71- Selmân-i-Fârisî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ left Iran and set out on a journey over various countries in
quest for the true religion. He joined a caravan belonging to the tribe called
Benî Kelb and headed for Arabia. When they reached an area called Wâdi’-ul-qurâ
enroute to Arabia, his companions committed the treason of selling him as a
slave to a Jew, who in turn sold him as a slave to his Jewish relative from
Medina. This event coincided with the Hegira (Hijrat), and when Selmân was in
Medina he heard about Rasűlullah’s ‘sall-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ honouring Medina with his presence. He was
very happy because he was a Nazarene scholar and had made that long trek all
the
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[1] Soleless leather boots worn under the shoes.
[2] Any behaviour which is not commanded by Allâhu ta’âlâ but which is done and recommended by our Prophet ‘alaihis-salâm’.
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way
to Arabia with a view to becoming a Believer of the latest time’s Prophet, as he had been advised by a great scholar,
his last spiritual guide. That great scholar had taught him Rasűlullah’s
‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ personality traits and had told him that the Prophet would accept presents and refuse alms, that
there was a prophetic seal (a beauty-spot) between his two shoulders, and that
he had many miracles. Selmân-i-Fârisî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ took some dates to
Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, saying that they were alms. The
blessed Messenger would not eat any of them. Then he took him some twenty-five
dates in a plate, and said that they were intended for a present. The Messenger
of Allah ate some of them, and offered the rest to his Sahâba. So all the As-hâb-i-kirâm
ate dates. A thousand stones remained from the (twenty-five) dates eaten. And
Selmân saw that miracle of Rasűlullah’s, too. The following day there was a
funeral, and Selmân wished to see the prophetic seal. The Messenger of Allah
somehow sensed this, stripped off his shirt, and the muhr-u-nubuwwa (the
prophetic seal) was seen. Selmân ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ became a Believer at once.
An agreement was made (between Selmân and his Jewish owner) that he would be
manumitted in return for three hundred date-palms and sixteen hundred dirhams
of gold in a couple of years. Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ heard about this. He planted two hundred and
ninety-nine date-palms with his own blessed hands. The same year the palms
yielded fruit. One palm, which had been planted by ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’, was fruitless. Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ uprooted that
palm and then replanted it with his blessed hands. Dates appeared on the palm
at once. Then they gave Selmân ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ
’anh’ a gold as big as an egg, which had been taken as a ghanîma in a Holy War.
Selmân took it to Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ
’alaihi wa sallam’ and said that the gold was too small to weigh sixteen hundred
dirhams. The Messenger held the gold in his blessed hands and gave it back to
Selmân, telling him to take it to his owner. Half of the gold sufficed to pay
his debt to his owner, and the remaining half became Selmân’s ‘radiy-Allâhu
’anh’ property.
72- One day the Rasűl
‘alaihis-salâm’ was performing namâz, when Satan came and attempted to distract
him from namâz. He caught the devil with his blessed hands, and let him go only
after the latter had promised not to attempt to spoil namâz.
73- Abdullah bin Ubayy, the
chief of the hypocrites in
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Medina, sent for the Messenger of Allah towards his death and
begged him, “Please make me a shroud from the shirt you are wearing.” It being
the blessed Prophet’s habit to give whatever was asked of him, he presented his shirt
to him and also (when that person died) performed (the prayer called) the
janâza[1] for
him. Admiring this exemplary generosity of the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’, one hundred other hypocrites in Medina embraced
Islam altogether.
74- Among the unbelievers of
Qoureish, Welîd bin Mughîra, Âs bin Wâil, Hâris bin Qays, Aswad bin Yaghűs, and
Aswad bin Muttalib were ahead of others in persecuting and tormenting the
Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’. Jebrâîl
‘alaihis-salâm’ came and brought the ninety-fifth âyat of Hijr Sűra, which
purported, “We shall punish those who make fun of thee...,” and pointed to Welîd’s foot, to the second one’s heel, to the
third one’s nose, to the fourth one’s head, and to the fifth one’s eyes. Welîd
was wounded with an arrow, which went deep into his foot. Being an extremely
arrogant person, he did not stoop to pull the arrow out. So the metal part of
the arrow penetrated into the tendon of the ankle and caused sciatica. Âs
stepped on a sharp thorn, which entered deep into his heel and caused it to
swell like a bag. Hâris’s nose bled continuously. Aswad was sitting happily
under a tree, when he hit his head on the tree. And the fifth person, who was
named Aswad, too, became blind. All those five people perished in the end.
75- Tufeyl, the chieftain of the
tribe called Daws, had become a Believer in Mekka, before the Hegira. He asked
Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ for a symptom with which to
invite his tribe to belief in Islam. The blessed Messenger invoked, “Yâ Rabbî! Bestow an
âyat (a sign, a symptom, an evidence) on this person.” When Tufeyl went back to his tribe, a nűr (light) shone between
his eyebrows. Tufeyl invoked, “Yâ Rabbî! Remove this symptom from my face and
place it somewhere else on me. Seeing it on my face, some people may suppose it
is a sign of punishment inflicted on me because I have abandoned their
religion.” His invocation was accepted. The halo left his face and shone like a
candle-light on the tip of his whip. His tribesmen embraced Islam in the course
of time.
76- There was a pretty woman
among the tribe of Benî Nejjâr
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[1] See Endless Bliss, fifth fascicle, fifteenth chapter.
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in Medina. She was haunted by a jinnî who had fallen in love with
her. One day, after the Messenger’s ‘alaihis-salâm’ migration to Medina, the
jinnî was sitting under the wall in front of the woman’s house, when the woman
saw him and asked, “Why aren’t you visiting me any more?” “The Prophet of Allâhu ta’âlâ ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa
sallam’ has forbidden fornication and other acts of harâm,” was the jinnî’s
reply.
77- In the battle called
Bi’r-i-Ma’űna, the unbelievers reneged on their promise and martyred seventy of
the Sahâba. Among them was Âmir bin Fuheyra ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’, one of the earliest
Believers and a former slave manumitted by Abű Bakr ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’. When this blessed Muslim
was bayonetted to death, angels raised him up to heaven before the unbelievers’
eyes. When they reported this event to Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi
wa sallam’, the blessed Messenger explained, “He was interred by the angels
ofParadise, and his soul was raised up to Paradise.”
78-
Hubeyb bin Adî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, one of the Sahâba, was caught by the
unbelievers, who took him to Mekka and executed him there. They did not take
him down from the gallows so that the other unbelievers would enjoy watching
him. He remained on the gallows for forty days. Yet his body did not rot or
putrify, but it continuously bled flesh blood. When the Messenger of Allah
received intelligence about the event, he sent Zubeyr bin Awwâm and Mikdâd bin
Aswad ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhumâ’ to take the corpse back home. These heroes took
the corpse down from the gallows and galloped their horses back towards Medina.
They were quite near Medina when seventy horsemen from the unbelievers’
encampment caught up with them. The two Muslims put Hubeyb’s body on the ground
to defend themselves. The earth split and Hubeyb disappeared into the crevice.
When the unbelievers saw this miracle they turned back and galloped away.
79- Sa’d bin Mu’âdh ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ was wounded in the Holy
War of Uhud and attained martyrdom before long. Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ
’alaihi wa sallam’ informed that seventy thousand angels attended the salât of
janâza[1] performed for him. As his grave was being dug, a smell of musk
suffused the entire place.
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[1] See the seventy-third miracle.
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80- In the seventh year of the
Hegira, Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ sent letters to the
Abyssinian emperor Negus, to the Byzantine emperor Heraclius, to the Persian
emperor Husrav, to the Byzantine governor in Egypt, Muqawqas, to the Byzantine
governor in Damascus, Hâris, and to the Umman Sultan, Semâma, inviting them to
Islam. The envoys carrying the letters did not know the languages of the
countries they were sent to. However, the following morning they began to speak
those languages.
81- Zayd bin Hârisa ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’, one of the greatest
Sahâbîs, set out for a long journey. The man that he had hired to take care of
his mule attempted to kill him. Zayd asked for respite so that he could perform
two rak’ats of namâz. After the namâz he said, “Yâ Erham-ar-râhimîn (O, Thou, the Most Merciful of the merciful),” three times. After each time he said this invocation, a voice was
heard to say, “Do not kill him.” Each time the voice was heard, the muleteer
went out to see the person calling, and came back in, (for there was noone
outside.) After the third attempt, a horseman rushed in with a sword in his
hand and butchered the muleteer. Then he turned to Zayd and explained, “I was
in the seventh sky when you began to say the invocation, ‘Yâ erham-ar-râhimîn!’
By the time you said it the second time, I had already reached the first sky.
And I was with you at the third time.” So Zayd realized that the horseman was
an angel.
82- A Sahabî named Sefîna, who
had been manumitted by Ummu Salama ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhâ’, one of Rasűlullah’s ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa
sallam’ blessed wives, would never be remiss in his service with the Messenger
of Allah. In a Holy War fought against the Byzantine armies he was captivated
by the enemy. Somehow he escaped and was on his way back home, when he suddenly
encountered a lion. He said, “I am the servant of the Messenger of Allah,” and
told the lion everything he had experienced. The lion began to walk along with
him, rubbing its face and eyes on him as they walked, and keeping close to him
lest the enemy should harm him. When the Muslim troops came into sight, the
lion turned back and walked away.
83- Someone named
Jehjâh-i-Ghaffârî rose against the Khalîfa, ’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’. He broke the rod which
Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ used to carry in his hand,
with his knee. A year later his knee caught a
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disease called anthrax, which caused him to die.
84- Mu’âwiya ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ left Damascus for Mekka
for the purpose of hajj (pilgrimage of a Muslim). En route, he went to Medina
and attempted to take Rasűlullah’s ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’
minbar with him to Damascus, for the purpose of benefiting from its spiritual
blessings. As soon as they moved the minbar only a little, a solar eclipse took
place. It was dark everywhere, so much so that the stars appeared in the sky.
85- In the Holy War of Uhud one
of Abű Qatâda’s ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ eyes came out of its socket and fell on his cheek. They
took him to Rasűlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’. With his own
blessed hand the Messenger put the eye back into its socket and invoked, “Yâ Rabbî! Make his eye
beautiful!” So this eye of Abű Qatâda’s was
more beautiful than his other eye, and its sight was more powerful than the
other one’s. (Years later,) one day one of Abű Qatâda’s grandsons was in the
presence of ’Umar bin Abd-ul-’Azîz, the time’s Khalîfa. When the Khalîfa asked
him who he was, he recited a couplet saying that he was the grandson of the
person whose eye the Messenger of Allah had replaced with his blessed hand.
When the Khalîfa heard the couplet, he treated him with utter respect and
generous kindness.
86- Iyâs bin Salama relates: During the Holy
War of Hayber, the Messenger of Allah sent me for Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhumâ’.
Alî had a sore eye and walked with difficulty. So I helped him, holding him by
the hand. The Messenger spat on his own blessed fingers and rubbed them gently
on Alî’s eyes. He handed him the banner (of Islam), and sent him off to fight
before the gate of Hayber. The gate was so huge that they had not been able to
open it for a long time. Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ pulled the door off its
hinges, and the As-hâb-i-kirâm’ entered the fortress.
He had many other miracles
written in various books, particularly in Shewâhid-un-nubuwwa, by Molla Abd-ur-Rahmân Jâmî ‘rahima-hullâhu ta’âlâ’, and in Hujjatullâhi ’ala-l-’âlemîn, by Yűsuf Nebhânî. Shawâhid-un-nubuwwa is originally in Persian and has a Turkish version as well.
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