CHAPTER ABOUT ANIMALS FROM THE MIRACLES OF PROPHETHOOD
Chapter about animals from the miracles of prophethood; the story of the chanting camel and its prostration to him and its complaint to him
Anas Ibn Malik narrated: A household from the Ansar tribe had a camel which they used for irrigation purposes and it became hostile toward them and refused to be controlled. The Ansar came to the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) and said, “We have a camel that we would use for irrigation and it has become hostile toward us and refuses to be controlled. The agriculture and the date trees have become thirsty.” The Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said to his Companions, “Stand (leave).” So they stood and left. When he entered the (date-tree) garden, the camel was in its place. The Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) walked toward it then the Ansar said, “O Messenger of Allah, it has become like a dog and we fear its attack upon you.” He said, “No harm shall afflict me from it.” When the camel looked at the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) it walked toward him until it came close to him and fell in prostration. The Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) held it by its forehead in a way more subservient than it ever had been till he made it work. Thereafter, his Companions said to him, “O Messenger of Allah, this is an animal that doesn’t have intellect yet it prostrates before you and we are more worthy that we prostrate to you.” He said, “It is not befitting for a human being to prostrate before another human being. And if it was befitting for a human being to prostrate before another then I would have commanded the woman to prostrate before her husband due to the greater rights he has upon her. By the One in Whose Hands is my soul, if there was a wart from his feet to the parting of his head seeping with pus and she faced him then licked it, she would have still not fulfilled his right (upon her).” And this is a good chain and An-Nasa’i narrated a portion of it from the Hadith of Khalaf Ibn Khaleefah with it (same chain).
Ya‘la Ibn Murrah Ath-Thaqafi narrated: I witnessed three matters (miracles) from the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him). While we were traveling with him we passed by a camel irrigating the land. When the camel saw him it shuffled and it dropped its head. The Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) stood in front of it and said, “Where is the owner of this camel?” When he came, the Prophet said, “Sell it to me.” He said, “No, rather I grant it to you.” He again said, “No, rather sell it to me.” He replied, “No, rather we grant it to you, it belongs to someone who doesn’t own a livelihood other than it.” He said, “If you mention this from its affair, then it is suffering from much work and a lack of feeding, so look after it.” The narrator added: Then we traveled and we stopped at a place where the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) slept. There a tree came dragging itself until it enveloped him and then it returned to its place. When he woke up I mentioned that to him. He said, “It is a tree that sought permission from its Lord to give greetings to the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) so he allowed it.” The narrator added: Then we journeyed till we came to some water where a woman came to him with her child who was possessed. The Prophet held it by the nose and said, “Exit, for indeed I am Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah.” The narrator added: Then we traveled and when we returned from our journey we passed by that water and the woman came with a sheep (which was) sound for a sacrifice and some Laban. He commanded her to take back the sheep which was sound for a sacrifice and he commanded his Companions to drink the Laban which they did. Then he asked about her child. She replied, “By the One Who sent you with Truth we haven’t seen a problem with him after you left.”
Hadith of the sheep’s prostration before the Prophet
Anas Ibn Malik narrated, “The Prophet entered a courtyard belonging to the Ansar and Abu Bakr, Umar and a man from the Ansar were with him, and therein were sheep and they prostrated before him. Abu Bakr said, “O Messenger of Allah, we are more deserving that we prostrate before you than these sheep.” He said, “It isn’t appropriate for anyone to prostrate before another and if it was appropriate for someone to prostrate before another I would have indeed commanded the woman to prostrate before her husband”. Ghareeb Hadith is collected by fewer than 2 narrators throughout its chain and in its chain is someone who is unknown. And Allah (SWT) knows best.
The story of the wolf and its testimony of the Prophethood
Abu Sa‘eed Al-Khudri narrated: A wolf attacked a sheep, grabbed and took it away. The shepherd searched for it and retrieved it. The wolf sat on its tale and said, “Do you not fear Allah that you snatch from me a provision which Allah has given to me?” He said, “My amazement, a wolf sits on its tail and speaks to me with the speech of man?” The wolf said, “Shall I not inform you of something more amazing than that? Muhammad g in Yathrib (old name for Madinah) tells the people news which has come before.” Abu Sa‘eed said: The shepherd went on herding his sheep until he reached Madinah, tied them to a corner of its corners and came to the Messenger of Allah g and informed him about the incident. The Messenger of Allah g called for a congregation prayer. After that he left and told the shepherd, “Tell them.” The shepherd told them. The Messenger of Allah g said, “He spoke the truth. By the One in Whose Hands is my soul, the hour shall not be established until the beasts speak to the people and the tassel of the man’s whip shall speak to him and the strap of his sandals. And his thigh shall inform him of what his family (wife) did after him.”
A man from Muzainah tribe or Juhainah narrated: The Messenger of Allah g offered Fajr prayers and then suddenly close to 100 wolves started heading forward like packs of wolves do. The Messenger of Allah g said to them, “Sacrifice for them some of your food, you can be safe from (sacrificing) other than that.” So they complained about their need to the Messenger of Allah g (for the food) He said, “Then ask them (to leave).” The narrator said: They asked them to leave and they left howling.”
Al-Qadi Iyad spoke about the authenticity of the Hadith of the wolf and narrated it from Abu Hurairah,
Abu Sa‘eed and Uhban Ibn Aws and was nicknamed, “The one who speaks to wolves.” And Ibn Wahb narrated that a similar occurrence happened to Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb and Safwan Ibn Umayyah regarding a wolf which they found had taken a deer. Then the deer entered the Haram and the wolf disappeared and they were amazed by that. But the wolf said, “More amazing than that: Muhammad Ibn Abdullah in
Madinah calls you to paradise and you call him to the fire.” Then Abu Sufyan said, “By Al-Lat and Al-Uzza, if I mention this to the people of Makkah its people will certainly leave.”
The story of the beast that was in the house of the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) and would respect him and venerate him
Jabir narrated, ‘A’ishah i said, “The family of the Prophet had a beast and when the Messenger of Allah g would leave, it would play and become active roaming around. When it perceived that the Messenger of Allah g had entered, it sat and didn’t move when the Messenger of Allah g was in the house out of respect for him.”
The story of the lion
We have mentioned in the biography of Safeenah the Mawla of the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) his Hadith when the ship had been ripped apart. Then he floated on a board from it until he entered an island in the sea and found a lion on it. Safeenah said to him, “O AbulHarith, I am Safeenah the Mawla of the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him).” The narrator said, “He struck my shoulder and stayed adjacent to me until he set me on the path, then sometime passed and I saw that he was giving me the farewell.”
Muhammad Ibn Al-Munkadir said: Safeenah the Mawla of the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) became lost from the army in the land of the Romans or he was captured in the land of the Romans. He left looking for the army when suddenly he was confronted by a lion. He said, “O Abul-Harith, I am the Mawla of the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him).
Such-and-such was from my affair.” The lion advanced wagging his tail until it stood still by his side. Everytime he heard a noise he would move toward it. Then it advanced walking to his side and remained like that until he took him to the army. Then the lion left him. Narrated by Al-Baihaqi.
The Hadith of the gazelle
Umm Salamah, the wife of the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him), narrated: While the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) was on a rock in the ground cave, suddenly someone shouted, “O Messenger of Allah. O Messenger of Allah.” The Prophet said: I turned but I couldn’t see anyone. Then I walked a short distance. Then suddenly I heard the voice, “O Messenger of Allah. O Messenger of Allah.” I turned but I couldn’t see anyone. Suddenly the voice was shouting for me. I followed the voice and I stumbled upon a deer tied up in a rope and I saw a Bedouin wrapped in a blanket in the sun. Thereafter the deer said, “O Messenger of Allah, this Bedouin hunted me before, while I have 2 fawns (young deer) on this mountain. If you can see that you should free me so that I may suckle them. Then I will return to my shackle?” He said, “And will you do so?” It replied, “May Allah punish me with the punishment of Al-‘Ashshar if I don’t comply.” The Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) set it free and it went and suckled its fawns and returned. While the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) was tying it, the Bedouin woke up and said, “May my father and mother be sacrificed for you, O Messenger of Allah. I seized it shortly before, do you have a need for it?” He said, “Yes.” He said, “It is yours.” He freed it and it left running in the desert in delight, beating its legs into the ground saying, “I testify that there is no god worthy of worship except Allah and that you are the Messenger of Allah.”
The Hadith of the lizard despite its Nakarah and Gharabah
Umar Ibn Al-Khattab narrated: The Messenger of Allah g was with a group of his Companions when a Bedouin came from the tribe of Sulaim and he had hunted a lizard and put it in his pocket so he could take it to his resting place to fry it and eat it. When he saw the group he said, “What is this?” They said, “This is the one who says he is a Prophet,” then he came and split the people and said, “By Al-Lat and Al-Uzza, the sky doesn’t hold (under it) a man who speaks more hated to me than you, nor more detested than you. And if it wasn’t for my fear that my people will call me impatient then I would have certainly rushed toward you and killed you. Then the black, red, white and other people would have been delighted with your death.” Then Umar Ibn Al-Khattab said, “O Messenger of Allah, allow me to kill him.” He said, “O Umar, don’t you know that the fore-bearing person would have been a Prophet?” Then he approached the Bedouin and said, “What made you say what you said, made you say falsehood and not honor me in my gathering?” He replied, “And you speak to me also?” – out of disrespect for the Messenger of Allah g – “By Al-Lat and Al-Uzza I will not believe in you until this lizard believes in you.” He produced the lizard from his pocket and threw it in front of the Messenger of Allah g. The Messenger of Allah g said, “O lizard.” The lizard responded to him with the clear language of Arabic. All of the people heard it say: “I am at your service and pleasure, O the most brilliant of those who fulfilled the Day of Judgment.” He said, “Who do you worship, O lizard?” It said, “The One Whose throne is above the sky and on the Earth is his authority, in the sea is his path, in the Paradise is his mercy and in the Hellfire is his punishment.” He said, “So who am I, O lizard?” It said, “The Messenger of the Lord of the worlds and the Seal of the Prophets. The one who believes in you succeeds and wretched is the one who rejects you.” Then the Bedouin said, “By Allah I shall not follow a story about you after what I saw. By Allah I came to you and there was no one on the face of the Earth more hated to me than you, but today you are indeed more beloved to me than my father, my eye and myself. And I indeed love you with my inner self and my exterior, and my secret and my apparent. And I bear witness that there is no god worthy of worship except Allah and that you are the Messenger of Allah g.” The Messenger of Allah g said, “All praise be to Allah, the One Who guided you through me. Indeed this religion shall be victorious and won’t be defeated and shall not be accepted without prayer. And the prayer isn’t accepted without the Qur’an.” He said, “Teach me.” So he taught him a Soorah: ‘Say: He is Allah the One.’ He said, “Tell me something extra, because I haven’t heard anything long or short which is better than this from speech.” He said, “O Bedouin, this is the speech of Allah, it is not poetry. Verily, if you read, the Soorah “Say: He is Allah the One,” once then you shall have the reward of the one who read a third of the Qur’an. And if you read it twice, then you shall have the reward of the one who read two-thirds of the Qur’an. And if you read it thrice, then you shall have the reward of the one who read all of the Qur’an.” The Bedouin said, “What a wonderful God, He accepts a little action and gives in abundance.” Then the Messenger of Allah g said, “Do you have any wealth?” He said, “There isn’t a man in the entire Sulaim tribe who is poorer than me.” Then the Messenger of Allah g said to his Companions, “Donate to him.” They donated to him till they made him proud. Then Abdur-Rahman Ibn Awf stood and said, “O Messenger of Allah, I am a she-camel with me who has been pregnant for 10 months. It is not extremely valuable nor is it defective. It follows and isn’t followed (obedient), it was given to me in the Battle of Tabook. Shall I use it to get closer to Allah by giving it to the Bedouin?” The Messenger of Allah g said, “You described your she-camel, so that I will describe to you your wealth with Allah on the Day of Judgment?” He said, “Yes.” He said, “You have a she-camel made from interior pearl, its legs are from green aquamarine (precious stone), its neck is from yellow aquamarine upon it is a howdah (carriage). Upon the howdah is a type of silk and brocade. It shall take you on the Sirat (pathway over Hellfire) like rapid lightning; everyone who sees you shall envy you on the Day of Judgment.” Then Abdur-Rahman said, “I am satisfied.” Then the Bedouin left and 1,000 Bedouins from the Sulaim tribe met him sitting upon 1,000 riding animals, armed with 1,000 swords and spears. He said to them, “Where are you going?” They said, “We are going to the one who belittled our gods; we will kill him.” He said, “Don’t do that. I bear witness that there is no god deserving worship except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.” He told them the story, and they all said, “We bear witness that there is no god deserving worship except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.” Then they all also came and the Messenger of Allah g was informed. He met them without an upper garment and they descended from their saddles and came close to him saying, “There is no god deserving worship except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.” They said, “O Messenger of Allah, command us with your command.” He said, “Be under the flag of Khalid Ibn AlWaleed.”
Hadith of the donkey
More than one of the great scholars including imams have rejected it from Abu Manzoor saying: When Allah made his Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) victorious in Khaibar his share was 4 pairs of sandals, 4 pairs of leather socks, 10 Awaq of gold and silver, a black donkey and a heap of dates. The narrator said: The Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) spoke to the donkey, and he spoke to him. He asked it, “What is your name.” He said, “Yazeed Ibn Shihab. Allah took 60 donkeys from the descendants of my grandfathers, none of them was used except by a Prophet. None from the descendants of my grandfather remains except me and there is none from the Prophets that remains other than you and I expected that you would ride me. Before you, I belonged to a Jew and I used to stumble with him deliberately. He used to starve me and strike my back.” The Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “I name you Ya‘foor, O Ya‘foor.” He replied, “I am at your service.” He said, “Do you desire mates?” He said, “No.” The Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) used to ride it for his need, and when he dismounted from it he would send it to the gate of a man and it would come to the door and hit it with his head. When the owner of the house would come out it would indicate with its head toward the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him). Thereafter, when the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) died it came to a well that belonged to Abul-Haitham Ibn At-Tayyihan and fell inside it; it became its grave out of sorrow for the passing away of the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him).
By Ibn Katheer
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