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eligion.” 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
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’ûna, 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 Abû 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 Rasûlullah
‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’, the blessed Messenger
explained, “He was interred by the angels of Paradise, 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.
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ informed that
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