Why Did They Become Muslims

disease called anthrax, which caused him to die.
84– Mu’âwiya ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ left Damascus for
Mekka for the purpose of hajj (pilgrimage of a Muslim). En route,
he went to Medina and attempted to take Rasûlullah’s ‘sall-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ minbar with him to Damascus, for the
purpose of benefiting from its spiritual blessings. As soon as they
moved the minbar only a little, a solar eclipse took place. It was
dark everywhere, so much so that the stars appeared in the sky.
85– In the Holy War of Uhud one of Abû Qatâda’s ‘radiy-
Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ eyes came out of its socket and fell on his
cheek. They took him to Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa
sallam’. With his own blessed hand the Messenger put the eye back
into its socket and invoked, “Yâ Rabbî! Make his eye beautiful!”
So this eye of Abû Qatâda’s was more beautiful than his other eye,
and its sight was more powerful than the other one’s. (Years later,)
one day one of Abû Qatâda’s grandsons was in the presence of
’Umar bin Abd-ul-’Azîz, the time’s Khalîfa. When the Khalîfa
asked him who he was, he recited a couplet saying that he was the
grandson of the person whose eye the Messenger of Allah had
replaced with his blessed hand. When the Khalîfa heard the
couplet, he treated him with utter respect and generous kindness.
86– Iyâs bin Salama relates: During the Holy War of Hayber,
the Messenger of Allah sent me for Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhumâ’.
Alî had a sore eye and walked with difficulty. So I helped him,
holding him by the hand. The Messenger spat on his own blessed
fingers and rubbed them gently on Alî’s eyes. He handed him the
banner (of Islam), and sent him off to fight before the gate of
Hayber. The gate was so huge that they had not been able to open
it for a long time. Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ pulled the door off its
hinges, and the As-hâb-i-kirâm’ entered the fortress.
He had many other miracles written in various books,
particularly in Shewâhid-un-nubuwwa, by Molla Abd-ur-Rahmân
Jâmî ‘rahima-hullâhu ta’âlâ’, and in Hujjatullâhi ’ala-l-’âlemîn, by
Yûsuf Nebhânî. Shawâhid-un-nubuwwa is originally in Persian
and has a Turkish version as well.
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