MIRACLES OF THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH(PEACE AND BLESSINGS OF ALLAH BE UPON HIM) THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR GREATER THAN MIRACLES OF PROPHETS
One of his exclusive miracles is the glorious Qur’an which falsehood cannot approach from before it or from behind it; (it is) a revelation from a (Lord who is) Wise and Praiseworthy.
Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Every Prophet was given miracles because of what people believed, but what I have been given, is Divine Inspiration which Allah has revealed to me. So I hope that my followers will outnumber the followers of the other Prophets on the Day of Resurrection.”
Jabir Ibn ‘Abdillah (May Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “I have been given five things which were not given to anyone else before me: Allah made me victorious by awe, (by His frightening my enemies) for a distance of one month’s journey; the earth has been made for me (and for my followers) a place for praying and a thing to perform Tayammum. Therefore anyone of my followers can pray wherever the time of a prayer is due; the booty has been made Halal (lawful) for me yet it was not lawful for anyone else before me; I have been given the right of intercession (on the Day of Resurrection); and every Prophet used to be sent to his nation only but I have been sent to all mankind.”
Allah (SWT) says:
“And (remember) when Allah took the Covenant of the Prophets, saying: ‘Take whatever I gave you from the Book and Hikmah (understanding of the Laws of Allah), and afterward there will come to you a
Messenger (Muhammad) confirming what is with you; you must, then, believe in him and help him’.”
Allah said: “Do you agree (to it) and will you take up My Covenant (which I conclude with you)?” They said: “We agree.” He said: “Then bear witness; and I am with you among the witnesses (for this).” Then whoever turns away after this, they are the Fasiqoon (rebellious: those who turn away from Allah’s Obedience).” (Soorah Aal ‘Imran 3:81-82)
Imam Ash-Shafi‘i said: “There was no Prophet who was as blessed as Muhammad (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him). ‘Eesa was blessed with a miracle of restoring life to the dead. As for Muhammad (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) the palm-tree trunk on which he used to reclined on whenever he gave sermons groaned in sadness – and its groaning was heard – because the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) left it when a pulpit was erected for him. This is, indeed, a greater miracle.”
About that which is given to Nooh (Peace be upon him)
Allah (SWT) says:
Then he invoked his Lord (saying): “I have been overcome, so help (me). So, We opened the gates of heaven with water pouring forth. And We caused springs to gush forth from the earth. So, the waters (of heaven and the Earth) met for a matter predestined. And We carried him on a (ship) made of planks and nails. Floating under Our Eyes, a reward for him who had been rejected. And indeed, We have left this as a sign. Then is there any that will remember (or receive admonition)”. (Soorah Al-Qamar 54:1015)
Anas Ibn Malik said: This nation (the Muslims) have three qualities if they were found in Children of Isra’eel, other nations would not have been able divide them. The narrator said: We asked him, “O Abu Hamzah, what are they?” He said, “We were in the Suffah with the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) when a woman emigrant came to him along with her son who had reached the age of puberty. He made the woman join the Muslim women and made her son join us. He had stayed for long before he was stricken by the plague of Al-Madinah and he then passed away. The Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) closed his eyes and commanded that he be prepared for burial. When we are about to wash him, the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Anas, go to his mother and inform her.’ I went to inform her. When she came, she sat at her son’s feet, held them and then said, ‘O Allah, I submit to you willingly; I renounced idols out of piety and I emigrated to you hoping for your pleasure. So do not give the idol worshippers the chance to gloat over what has befallen me and do not put on, on account of this affliction, a burden that I cannot bear.’ By Allah, she had not finished her talk before her son shook his feet and removed the sheet from his face. That son of her outlived the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) and outlived his mother as well.”
“(During the caliphate of Umar), he mobilized an army and appointed Al-Ala’ Ibn Al-Hadrami as its commander and I was among the fighters. We came to the battlefront and realized that the enemy had blocked our access to water while it was very hot and our animals were extremely thirsty. That was on a Friday. When it was close to sunset, the commander led us in performing two (supererogatory) Raka‘ahs. He then raised his hands toward the sky at a time we could not even see any trace of cloud, and supplicated. By Allah, he had hardly put his hands down before Allah sent a wind and clouds were formed. There was rain pouring until the valleys and ponds were filled with water. We drank there from and gave water to our animals. Then we approached our enemies who had crossed the gulf to the peninsula.
“The commander stood on the gulf and said, ‘O Allah, the Most High and the Greatest! O Allah, the Most Forbearing and the Most Generous.’ He then said, ‘Cross the river, in the Name of Allah!’ and we crossed the river with water touching nothing of the hooves of our animals! After a short while, we
launched a surprise attack against the enemy and took many captives. We returned to the gulf and the commander repeated what the same statement and we crossed with water touching nothing of the hooves of our animals. And we did not stay there but a little.”
Anas then mentioned the death of Al-Ala’ (the commander) and how they buried his remains in a land that ejected dead bodies buried in it – as they came to know later. They then dug his grave to remove his body in order to take it elsewhere for burial but they did not find the corpse there. What they could only discover was that the grave was filled with shining lights. Thereupon, they poured the dust back into the grave and moved away.
A story similar to that of Al-Ala’
Al-Baihaqi recorded on the authority of Sulaiman Ibn Mihran Al-A‘mash who related from some of his companions that he said: We arrived at the Tigris (Dajlah) River while the non-Arabs were at the other side of it. A man from among the Muslims said, “Bismillah! (In the Name of Allah)!” He then leapt with his horse over the water; and the people also said, “Bismillah!” and they leapt over the water. When the enemies saw them, they were frightened and they cried, “Crazy! Crazy!” They then fled. In this campaign, the Muslims lost nothing but a bowl that was hanging on a saddle. On the contrary, they gained lots of spoils which they divided among themselves. The war booties were so abundant that each fighter would seek for someone with whom he could swap a portion of his share with. We have already mentioned in the history and times of Umar, and also in our Tafseer that the first person to invade Tigris at that time was Abu Ubaidah Ath-Thaqafi, the commander of the Muslim armies during the caliphate of Umar, and that he looked at Tigris and recited Allah’s statement:“And no person can ever die except by Allah’s Leave and at an appointed term.” (Soorah Aal ‘Imran 3:145)
He then mentioned Allah’s Name and made a thrust with his horse and his fighters followed him in doing so.
Another similar story
Sulaiman Ibn Al-Mugheerah related that Abu Muslim Al-Khawlani came to Tigris while it was throwing up woods. He walked on the water and then turned to his companions and said to them, “Are you missing any of your belongings so that you can supplicate to Allah concerning that?”
Humaid Ibn Hilal Al-Adawi said: I was with Abu Muslim Al-Khawlani in an army. When we arrived at a terribly roaring sea, we asked the residents of the village about a ford through which we could cross and they told us that the nearest ford was about a two nights journey from there. Abu Muslim then said in supplication, “O Allah, You made the Children of Isra’eel cross the sea. We are Your slaves and upon Your path. Allow us to cross this river today.” He then turned to the group and said, “Cross, in the Name of Allah!” The narrator said: I was on a horse and I said to myself, “I would be the first one to leap forward after Abu Muslim’s horse.” And the Muslims crossed the river while the water barely reached up to the horses’ bellies. After all of them had crossed, Abu Muslim turned to the group and said, “Did any of you lose anything that we may invoke Allah to return it to him?”
These supernatural events with which Allah honored His sincere servants are part of the miracles of the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him), as it has been previously established. For, these sincere servants were able to attain this honor due to their following of the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him).
At the end of his work, Dala’il An-Nubuwwah, Hafiz Abu Nu‘aim made a comparison between merits and virtues of other Prophets and those of Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him). He also discussed the people’s belying of our Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) and their persecuting him and mocking his status with Allah so much so that the foolish one, Uqbah Ibn Abi Mu‘ait threw intestine of a camel on his back while he was prostrating. The Prophet did not raise his head from prostration till his daughter Fatimah came and removed those intestines from his back, and invoked evil on whoever had done that evil deed. The Prophet said, “O Allah! Destroy the chiefs of Quraish, O Allah! Destroy Abu Jahl Ibn Hisham, Utbah Ibn Rabee’ah, Shaibah Ibn Rabee’ah. Uqbah Ibn Abi Mu’ait Umayyah Ibn Khalaf (or Ubayy Ibn Kalaf).” Later on all of them killed during the Battle of Badr and their bodies were thrown into a well except the body of Umayyah or Ubayy, because he was a fat person, and when he was pulled, the parts of his body got separated before he was thrown into the well.
Also, when the Quraish came to confront the Muslims during the Battle of Badr with all their forces and the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) saw them; he raised his hands up and supplicated: “O Allah! These are Quraish people. They have come in their arrogance and haughtiness. They have argued with and belied Your Messenger. O Allah, subdue them in the morning!” As a result, seventy of their leaders were killed and seventy of their notables were taken as captives. Had Allah wanted, he would have exterminated them to the last person. But out of His forbearance and in order to honor His Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him), He spared those of them He had predestined that they would believe in Him and His Messenger. The Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) had invoked Allah upon Utbah Ibn Abi Lahab to send on him a dog in Sham; and the invocation materialized when Utbah was killed by a lion at Zarqa’ valley near Busra.
By Ibn Katheer
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