MIRACLES OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD
(SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam)

Imam Mohiuddin Nawawi   

A number of works have been authored concerning this topic or discussing this topic. Amongst them are: Ibn Taymiyyah’s Al-Jawaab-us-Sahih Li Man Baddala Din al-Masih; what was mentioned by Ibn Kathir in Tarikh and az-Zahabi in Tarikh al-Islam; Ibn Hajr in Fath-ul-Bari (6/582). Refer also to Khair-ud-Din Wanili’s Mu‘jizaat al-Mustafa. Consult this for the evidences for what is mentioned in this article.

The Messenger of Allah, Muhammad, (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) possesses many manifest miracles and signs demonstrating his veracity, reaching thousands and they are well known. From amongst them is the Holy Quraan, the manifest and clear miracle and brilliant proof, falsehood cannot approach it from before it or behind it. It is a revelation from the One Who is All-Wise and Praiseworthy. It incapacitated that the most eloquent of people in the most eloquent of times were unable to produce a single chapter that would be comparable to the Holy Quraan. And cannot be able to do it in future even if the whole of creation were to gather for that purpose. Allah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’aalaa) says:

“Say: If the whole of mankind and the jinn gathered in order to produce the like of this Quraan, they could not produce the like of it, even if they assisted each other.” (Al Israa: 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 of the Holy Prophet (Subhaanahu wa Ta’aalaa), it is not possible to enumerate them all due to their huge number and renewing and increasing nature. However, I will mention some examples:

• The splitting of the moon,
  
• Water flowing from between his fingers,
  
• Increase in 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 to him,
  
• Trees walking towards him,
  
• Two trees that were far apart, coming together and then parting again,
  
• The barren and therefore dry sheep giving milk,
  
• The return of the eye of Hardhat Qataadah Bin No‘man at its place because of the touch of the hand of the Holy Prophet (Subhaanahu wa Ta’aalaa) after it had slipped out,
  
• His spitting lightly into the eye of Hadhrat Ali when it had become inflamed and its being cured almost immediately,
  
• His wiping the leg of Hadhrat Abdullah bin Tail whereupon he was immediately cured,
  
• His informing of the places of death of the infidels on the Day of Badr by saying, ‘This is the place of such polytheists.’
  
• His informing about the killing of Ubayy bin Khalaf,
  
• His prediction that a group of his nation would traverse an ocean and Umme Haram would be amongst them and this occurred,
  
• That all that was drawn together for him of the ends of the earth and displayed to him, would be opened for his nation,
  
• His prediction that the treasures of Chosroes would be spent by his nation in the Way of Allah, 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 Suraaqah bin Malik would wear the bracelets of Chosroes.
  
• He informed us that Hadhrat Hasan bin Ali would reconcile between two large warring parties of the Muslims,
  
• He informed that Hadhrat Sa’ad bin Abi Waqaas would live such that nations would benefit by him and others would be harmed,
  
• He informed that he an-Najaashi had died on this particular day, while he was in Ethiopia and that al-Aswad al-‘Ansi had been killed on this particular day, while he was in Yemen,
  
• He predicted 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 Iraq would be conquered by the Muslims.
  
• He informed us that the Muslims would comprise three armies, an army in Syria, and army in Yemen and an army in Iraq,
  
• He predicted that they would conquer Egypt, a land whose (unit of land measurement) was the Qirat, that they should deal with their people well for they have protection (being Copts) and ties of kinship (through Hajar),
  
• He informed that Awais al-Qarni would come to you from the auxiliaries of Yemen, he would be afflicted with leprosy and it would be healed except for the space of a dirham, and he indeed arrived during the rule of Hadhrat Umar,
  
• He informed us that a group of his nation would always be upon the truth,
  
• He predicted that mankind would become many in number,
  
• He predicted that the Ansaar would diminish in number and that the Ansaar would not be given their due with regards distribution of wealth and leadership,
  
• He said that mankind would keep on asking questions until they would say, “Allah created the creation...” Referring to the Hadeeth, “The people would continue asking until they say, ‘this is Allah Who created everything...but who created Allah?’” (Bukhari and Muslim)
  
• He informed us that Ruwayfi‘ bin Thabit would live a long life,
  
• He predicted that Hadhrat Ammaar bin Yasir would be killed by the transgressing group,
  
• He foretold 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 Hijaz and the likes of this. All of this occurred exactly as the Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) said it would.
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) said to Hadhrat Thabit bin Qais, “You will live being praised... and you will die as a martyr”, and he lived being praised and was martyred at al-Yamamah,
  
• He said to Hadhrat Usman: “He would be afflicted by a severe trial.” The meaning of severe trial is his being imprisoned in his house and his being killed by the 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 that person committed suicide,
  
• Wabisah bin Ma‘bad came to the Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) in order to ask him about righteousness and sin and before him asking the question, the Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) asked him, “Have you come to ask about righteousness and sin?”
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) said to Hadhrat Ali, Hadhrat Zubair and Hadhrat Miqdaad: “Go to the garden of Khakh for indeed there is Dha`inah” who has a book with her. Dha`inah is the woman with whom Hatib bin Abi al-Balta`ah sent a letter to the people of Makkah in order to inform them about the plans of Allah’s Messenger (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) to fight them. It was concerning this that the first verses of Surah Mumtahinah were revealed. The garden of Khakh is a place falling between Makkah al Mukarramah and Madinah al Munawwarah. Refer to Bukhari [no 3983] and Muslim [no 2494] and Tafsir Ibn Kathir [4/344]]. They found her there but she initially denied having the book and then took it out from within her braids,
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) said to Hadhrat Abu Hurairah when Satan had stolen some dates: “Indeed he shall return,” and he did,
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) 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. Hadhrat Zaynab binte Jahsh was the most prolific of them in giving charity and was the first to die. (Refer to Sahih Muslim no 2452)
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) said to ‘Abdullah bin Salaam, “You will remain upon Islam until you die.”
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) supplicated for Hadhrat Anas that his wealth and sons may increase and that he should live a long life, and it was so. He lived for more than one hundred years and none of the Ansaar was richer than him and one hundred and twenty of his children had already been buried before the arrival of al-Hajjaj (to Basrah). This is detailed further in Sahih Bukhari and others. [Bukhari no 1982]
  
• He supplicated that Islam be strengthened through Umar bin al-Khattab or Abu Jahl, and Allah strengthened it through Hadhrat Umar,
  
• He supplicated against Suraaqah bin Maalik and the feet of Suraqah’s horse sank into the earth and he was thrown off, he called out asking for safe conduct and was granted it by the Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam), then he asked him to make a supplication for him,
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) supplicated that Allah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’aalaa) may remove the feeling of the bitter cold and heat from Hadhrat Ali, and so never did he feel cold or hot,
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) supplicated for Hadhrat Huziafah, the night that he sent him to spy on the Confederates, and he did not feel the cold until he returned from the mission,
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) supplicated for Hadhrat Abdullah bin Abbas that Allah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’aalaa) may grant him understanding of the religion and it was so,
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) supplicated against Utbah bin Abi Lahb that Allah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’aalaa) may cause a dog from amongst his dogs to overcome him. Utbah was then killed by a lion at az-Zarqa‘,
  
• The Holy Prophet (Subhaanahu wa Ta’aalaa) supplicated for the descent of rain when people asked him to at the time of drought. There was not a single cloud in the sky at that time, and then when he had supplicated, clouds gathered like mountains and it rained until the next Friday. It rained so much that people had to come back and ask him to supplicate and stop the rain, so he supplicated and the rain stopped and they walked out into the glaring sun,
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) supplicated for Hadhrat Abu Talhah and his wife, Hadhrat Umme Sulaim that Allah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’aalaa) may bless them in the night they had spent together, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Abdullah, who had nine children and all of them were scholars,
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) supplicated for the mother of Hadhrat Abu Hurairah that she be guided and Hadhrat Abu Hurairah left to find her performing the ritual bath because she had accepted Islam. He supplicated for Umme Qais binte Muhsin, the sister of Ukkashah, 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-Nasa’i the chapter concerning washing the deceased,
  
• On the Day of Hunain, the Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) threw a handful of dirt at the disbelievers and said, “May the faces be disfigured”, and Allah the Exalted vanquished them, filling their eyes with dirt,
  
• The Holy Prophet (SallAllaho alaihe wa sallam) once went out to one hundred of the Quraish, who were waiting to do something horrible to him and he put dirt on their head and went on his way without being seen by them.
  

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