Why Did They Become Muslims

they ate it from that container, the honey was finished soon. When
they reported this event to the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’, he stated, “If the honey had remained in
the container that I had sent back, there would be no decrease in
the honey even if they ate it till the end of the world.”
26– Abû Hureyra reports: I went to the Messenger of Allah
with a few dates and asked him to invoke a blessing on them. He
prayed so that they would have barakat, and warned me, “Take
them and put them in your container. Whenever you need dates,
pick them with your hand. Never attempt to pour them lest they
should scatter around.” I always kept the bag containing the dates
with me, day and night, and ate them continually till the time of
’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’. They were so abundant that people
who were with me for various occasions ate plenty of dates, and I
gave handfuls of dates as alms. On the day when ’Uthmân ‘radiy-
Allâhu ’anh’ was martyred, the bag with the dates disappeared.
27– Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa-sallam’, like
Suleymân (Solomon) ‘alaihis-salâm’, understood all sorts of
animal language. Animals would frequently come to him and
complain about their owners or other people. Events of this sort
were seen by others many times. Each time an animal came to
him, the Messenger of Allah would explain it to the As-hâb-ikirâm
(his Companions). During the Holy War of Hunayn, he
said to the white mule named DULDUL which he was riding:
“Get down.” When Duldul knelt down with the command, he
took a handful of sand from the ground and scattered it over the
unbelievers.
28– Another frequently seen miracle of the Messenger of Allah
‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ is his informing about the
unknown. There are three different groups of these miracles:
The first group of miracles consists of questions he was asked
about events previous to his time. The answers he gave to these
questions caused many unbelievers and implacable enemies to
embrace Islam.
In the second group are his miracles whereby he informed
about the events that happened during his time as well as those
which were going to happen later.
The third group embodies his prophesies of the events that will
happen in the world till Doomsday and also those which will
happen in the Hereafter. We shall tell about some of the miracles
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