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When He Would Perform Miracles | Meeting Muhammad ﷺ Episode 23
| The Messenger ﷺ both received and performed miracles. If you were to accompany him, you would no doubt have been among the Companions who witnessed the miraculous nature of a prophet. |
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. As powerful and as beautiful as it was to witness the Qur'an coming upon the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, it's still just as miraculous and as majestic today as it was then. And that's why it is the timeless miracle. It's the miracle that stays with us even though we never got to accompany him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. But what was it like when you were with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and there were other miracles that were taking place as well. And was there a benefit to those miracles as they happened in front of your eyes? So I want to focus on two categories of miracles that you would have witnessed with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam regularly. And one of them was the miracle of trees and stones that would greet him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and that clearly had an attachment to him. Meaning even nature had an attachment to him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And remember that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam taught us that the student of knowledge, the scholar has everyone and everything making dua for them. Even the animals, even the fish in the sea, even the environment makes dua for the student of knowledge and the scholar because they benefit everything around them. And with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was the most blessed of those who were given knowledge because he received knowledge directly from the heaven SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Now when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was growing up and before he received revelation, he used to have these miracles take place with him. The trees that would extend their branches, the stones that would say Salaam to him, but the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would ignore them because he didn't know what to make of them SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam at that point in his life. However, after the age of 40, Jabir ibn Samarra radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he says, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, I recognize the stone in Mecca, which used to say Salaam to me before my advent as a prophet. And I still recognize that stone even now.
And Ali ibn Abi Talib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu said, when we would go out in Mecca, even in the early days of the prophethood of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, the trees and the rocks as we pass them by would say, As-Salaamu Alaika Ya Rasulullah, peace be on to you, O messenger of Allah. Anas ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he says that one time we were with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and he had this handful of small stones in his hand. And as the stones were in his hand, they began to do Tasbeeh in his hand. They began to praise Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and glorify Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la from the hand of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So it was common to see nature showering blessings upon the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam because they felt blessed by his presence. And the most prominent story is one that was witnessed by numerous companions. And I want you to imagine the scene. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, he used to stand by a tree on the day of Friday and he used to lean on that tree when he would give the Khutbah. And then one of the women of the Ansar said to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Ya Rasulullah, should we make a Manbar for you? Should we make a pulpit for you? So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Inshittum, if you wish, then go ahead and do so. So we built a pulpit, a Manbar for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam went to the Manbar to start giving the Jum'ah Khutbah from there, to start giving the sermon from there, they said that the date palm tree started to cry like a child. Some of the Sahaba, they described the crying of that tree like a pregnant she-camel about to give birth. And some of them said it was moaning like a baby. Can you imagine sitting there and you're looking at a tree crying? And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, what does he do? He descends from his Manbar, he goes to the tree SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and he starts to comfort the tree Alayhi Salatu Wasalam. And just like if you were comforting a child, the crying would start to calm down until the crying stops, or you hope that the crying stops. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was comforting the tree and all of the Sahaba
are looking at the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and they're thinking to themselves, what is going on? SubhanAllah, this is incredible. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Tabki ala ma kana tasma'u min adh-dhikr That the tree is crying because it's missing what it used to hear of the remembrance of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Because the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had moved to the Manbar, the tree was saddened that it would no longer have the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam leaning upon it and speaking under it SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So that's one category of miracles that you would witness. And you would have witnessed that particular miracle because it was the day of Jum'ah when the people were gathered. Then you have another category of miracles. And that was the blessing that his blessed hands used to produce SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And what that looked like was that he could either put his hands on something that produced nothing and it would start to produce, or the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would put his hands on a small quantity of things and it would become a large quantity. So you have the narrations of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam putting his hands on the udders of an animal that doesn't give milk. And then that animal starts to flow with milk. Like in the case of Umm Ma'bid, the story of Umm Ma'bid radiAllahu ta'ala Anha. And then you have all these narrations of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam with food, small quantities of food and small quantities of water. You have a narration from Abdur Rahman ibn Abi Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma, who says that we were 130 people with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, do any of you have any food with you? And so each one of them, you know, came forth and all they had was just a small amount of food and it was all mixed together. Then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam saw this man and he had some sheep. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, are you selling these sheep or are you giving them away? He said, no, I'm selling these sheep. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam bought one of the sheep and Abdur Rahman says that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam cooked the sheep himself. And then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, as he cooked the sheep, alayhi salatu wassalam, he started to cut from that sheep and he started to serve the people.
And he said he served from his own hand SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, 130 people and not a single one of us had any food that was missing. And he said, we even were able to stow some of it away as extra for our families. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was able to turn one dish into two dishes. He was able to turn two dishes into 200 dishes. And there are numerous narrations of that sort. And you have the narration that we already covered, for example, of the laban, the yogurt drink that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam served to Abu Huraira radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and some of Ahlul Suffa, some of the poor people in the masjid. And it never runs out because it's from the hands of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And you have the narration of over a thousand people eating from one pot in khandaq, in the trench that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was able to extract the barakah from. You have the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam taking a small pot of water alayhi salatu wassalam and pouring the water through his hands and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam calling the sahaba to him as the small amount of water comes through his fingers alayhi salatu wassalam. And all of them were able to do wudu, all of them were able to drink and all of them were even able to take enough water to give to their animals subhanAllah. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam produces barakah, produces blessing in quantity. And that's something that the ulama point to, the scholars point to, they say subhanAllah, even the miracles of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam were mercy. Even in his miracle was a rahma. Why? Because the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gave you more than you expected, whether it was in terms of worldly things or if it was in terms of things regarding the hereafter.
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