The Messenger of Allâh
possesses many manifest miracles and signs demonstrating [his veracity],
reaching thousands and they are well known.
From amongst them was the
Qur'ân, the manifest and clear miracle and brilliant proof, falsehood cannot
approach it from before it or behind it. It is a revelation from One Who is
All-Wise and Praiseworthy. It incapacitated the most eloquent of people in the
most eloquent of times to produce a single chapter than would be comparable to
it, even if the whole of creation were to gather for that purpose. Allâh, the
Exalted says,
"Say: if the whole of
mankind and the jinn gathered in order to produce the like of this Qur'ân, they
could not produce the like of it, even if they assisted each other."
[Al-Isrâ' (17):88]
It challenged them to this
despite their large numbers, their eloquence and their severe enmity, and it
challenges them to this day.
As for the other miracles,
it is not possible to enumerate them all due to their huge number and renewing
and increasing nature. I will mention some examples:
The splitting of the moon,
water flowing from between his fingers, increasing the quantity of food and
water, the glorification of the food, the palm tree yearning for him, stones
greeting him, the talking of the poisoned leg [of roasted sheep], trees walking
towards him, two trees that were far apart coming together and then parting
again, the barren [and therefore dry] sheep giving milk, his returning the eye
of Qatâdah bin an-Nu'mân to its place with his hand after it had slipped out,
his splitting lightly into the eye of 'Alî when it had become inflamed and its
being cured almost immediately, his wiping the leg of 'Abdullâh bin 'Atîq
whereupon he was immediately cured.
His informing of the places
of death of the polytheists on the Day of Badr saying, 'this is the place of
such-and-such a person.' His informing of his killing Ubayy ibn Khalaf, that a
group of his nation would traverse an ocean and Umm Harâm would be amongst them
and this occurred. That all was drawn together for him of the ends of the earth
and displayed to him would be opened for his nation, that the treasures of
Chosroes would be spend by his nation in the Way of Allâh, the Mighty and
Magnificent. That he feared for his nation that they would be tempted by the
wealth and allurement of this world and that the treasures of the Persians and
Romans would be ours and that Surâqah bin Mâlik would wear the trousers of
Chosroes.
He informed us that Hasan
bin 'Alî would reconcile between two large warring parties of Muslims, that
Sa'd bin Abû Waqqâs would live such that nations would benefit by him and
others would be harmed. That an-Najâshî had died on this particular day while
he was in Ethiopia and that al-Aswad al-Ansî had been killed on this particular
day while he was in Yemen.
That the Muslims would
fight the Turks who were described as having small eyes, wide faces and small,
chiselled noses and that Yemen, Syria and Irâq would be conquered by the
Muslims.
He informed us that the
Muslims would comprise three armies, an army in Syria, an army in Yemen and an
army in Irâq. That they would conquer Egypt, a land whose [unit of land
measurement] was the Qîrât, they they should deal with their people well for
they have protection [being Copts] and ties of kinship [through Hajar]. That
Awais al-Qarnî would come to you from the auxiliaries of Yemen, he would be
affected with leprosy and it would be healed except for the space of a dirham,
and he indeed arrived during the rule of 'Umar.
He informed us that a group
of his nation would always be upon the truth and that mankind would become many
in number and that the Ansâr would diminish in number and that the Ansâr would
not be given their due [with regards distribution of wealth and leadership].
That mankind would keep on asking questions until they would say, "Allâh
created the creation ..." [Referring to the hadîth, "the people will
continue asking until they say, 'this is Allâh who created everything ... but
who created Allâh?' " Reported by al-Bukhârî [no.7296] and Muslim
[no.136]]
He informed us that
Ruwayfî' bin Thâbit would live a long life, that 'Ammâr bin Yâsir would be
killed by the transgressing group, that this nation shall divide into sects and
that they would fight each other.
He informed us that a fire
would emanate from the land of Hijâz and the likes of this. All of this
occurred exactly as he, sallallâhu 'alayhi wa sallam, said it would.
He said to Thâbit bin Qays,
"You will live being
praised ... and you will die as a martyr."
and he lived being praised
and was martyred at al-Yamâmah. He said about 'Uthmân,
"He would afflicted by
a severe trial." [The meaning of severe trial is his being imprisoned in
his house and his being killed by transgressors.]
He said about a person
amongst the Muslims who had just fought a severe fight that,
"He would be from
amongst the denizens of the Fire."
and later he committed
suicide. Wâbisah bin Ma'bad came to him in order to ask him about righteousness
and sin upon which he asked,
"Have you come to ask
about righteousness and sin?"
He said to 'Alî, az-Zubair
and al-Miqdâd,
"Go to the garden of
Khâkh for indeed there is Dha'înah* who has a book with her."
They found her there but
she initially denied having the book and then took it our from within her
braids.
He said to Abû Hurayrah,
when Satan had stolen some dates, "indeed he shall return ... " and
he did.
He said to his wives,
"The most prolific of you in giving charity will be the quickest of you to
join me," and it was so. [Zaynab bint Jahsh radiallâhu 'anhâ was the most
prolific of them in giving charity and was the first to die. Refer to Muslim
[no.2452].]
He said to 'Abdullâh bin
Sallâm, "You will remain upon Islâm until you die."
He supplicated for Anas
that his wealth and sons increase and that he should live a long life and it
was so. He lived for more than one hundred years and not one of the Ansâr was
richer than he and one hundred and twenty of his children had been buried
before the arrival of al-Hajjâj [to Basrah]. This is detailed further in Sahîh
al-Bukhârî [no.1982] and others.
He sallallâhu 'alayhi wa
sallam supplicated that Islâm be strengthened through 'Umar bin al-Khattab or
Abû Jahl, and Allâh strengthened it through 'Umar radiallâhu 'anhu. He
supplicated against Surâqah bin Mâlik and the feet of his horse sank into the
earth and he was thrown off, he called out asking for safe conduct and was
granted it, then he asked the Prophet to make a supplication for him.
He supplicated that Allâh
remove feeling the bitter cold and heat from 'Alî and so never did he feel cold
or hot. He supplicated for Hudhayfah, the night that he sent him to spy on the
Confederates, that he not feel the cold and he did not until he had returned.
He supplicated for ibn 'Abbâs that Allâh grant him understanding of the
religion and it was so. He supplicated against 'Utaybah bin Abû Lahab that
Allâh cause a dog from amongst His dogs to overcome him and he was killed by a
lion at az-Zarqâ'.
He sallallâhu 'alayhi wa
sallam supplicated for the descent of rain when they asked him to at the time
of drought, there was not a single cloud in the sky, then when he had
supplicated, the clouds gathered like mountains and it rained until the next
Friday. It rained so much they they had to come back and ask him to supplicated
and stop the rain, so he supplicated and the rain stopped and they out into the
glaring sun.
He supplicated for Abû
Talhah and his wife, Umm Sulaym, that he bless them in the night they had spent
together and she became pregnant and gave birth to 'Adullâh. He had nine
children and all of them were scholars.
He sallallâhu 'alayhi wa
sallam supplicated for the mother of Abû Hurayrah radiallâhu 'anhu that she be
guided and Abû Hurayrah left to find her performing the ritual bath because she
had accepted Islâm. He supplicated for Umm Qays bint Muhsin, the sister of
'Ukkasha, that she live a long life and we do not know of another woman who
lived as long as she did. This was reported by an-Nasâ'î in the chapter
concerning washing the deceased.
On the Day of Hunain he
threw a handful of dirt at the disbelievers and said, "May the faces be
disfigured," and Allâh, the Exalted, vanquished them, filling their eyes
with dirt. He once went out to one hundred of the Quraysh who were waiting to
do something horrible to him and he put dirt on their head and went on his way
without their seeing him.
* [This is the woman with
whom Hasîb al-Balta'ah radiallâhu 'anhu sent a letter to the people of Mecca in
order to inform them of the plans of the Messenger of Allâh sallallâhu 'alayhi
wa sallam to fight them. It was concerning this that the first verses of Sûrah
Mumtahinah were revealed. The garden of Khâkh is a place falling between Mecca
and Madînah. Refer to Bukhârî [no.3983] and Muslim [no.2494] and Tafsîr ibn Kathîr
[4/344].]
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