Why Did They Become Muslims

He named it ‘Abdullah’ and gave it back to its mother. “Take the
father of Khalîfas with you!” he said. When Abbâs ‘radiy-Allâhu
’anh’ heard about it, he visited the blessed Prophet and politely
asked him why he had said so. The Prophet explained, “Yes, I said
so. This child is the father of Khalîfas. Among them there will be
(a person named) Seffâh, (one named) Mahdî, and a person who
will perform namâz with Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’.” Many Khalîfas
presided over the Abbasid state. All of them descended from
Abdullah bin Abbâs.
45– One day he stated, “Among my Ummat there will come
numerous people called Râfidî. They will leave the Islamic
religion.”
46– He pronounced benedictions over many of his Sahâba, all
his benedictions were accepted and were of benefit to the people
concerned.
Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ related: Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ wanted to send me as the Qâdî [Judge] to
Yemen. I said, “Yâ Rasûlallah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa
sallam’! I do not know the job of a qâdî.” He put his blessed hand
on my chest and invoked, “Yâ Rabbî! Intimate to this person’s
heart whatever is right. Bless him with the quality of always
telling the truth!” From then on I always sensed the right one
among the complaints that came to me and my decisions were
always correct.
47– The ten people whom the Messenger of Allah gratified
with the good news that they would go to Paradise are called
’Ashara-i-mubashshara. Sa’d bin Ebî Waqqâs ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’
was one of them. In the Holy War of Uhud the blessed Messenger
invoked a blessing on him, saying, “Yâ Rabbî! Make his arrows
reach their targets and also accept his invocations!” From then on
all the prayers Sa’d said were accepted, and every arrow he threw
hit the enemy.
48– He put his blessed hands on the forehead of his paternal
uncle’s son, Abdullah bin Abbâs ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhumâ’ and made
the following prayer: “Yâ Rabbî! Make this person a profound
scholar in the religion and an owner of hikmat! Bestow on him the
knowledge of the Qur’ân al-kerim!” From then on, he was peerless
in his time in all branches of knowledge, especially in tafsîr, in
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