Now, O unfortunate, wretched man without heart who says that Muhammad (UWBP) was only a clever person and then closes his eyes to that Sun of Truth! Of all his fifteen different kinds of miracle, you have thus far heard only a hundredth part of one kind, that relating to his predictions which have the certainty of ‘consensus in meaning.’ To discover future events through one’s own perspicacit y and thus succeed in even one hundredth part of the Prophet’s (UWBP) predictions, one would have to be of the highest genius. Even if we merely called him a genius as you call him, could such a man  have ever  seen anything  wrongly?  Or could  he have ever  stooped  to reporting it wrongly? Not to heed the word of such a hundredfold genius concerning happiness in this world and the next is therefore the sign of a hundredfold madness!

SIXTH SIGN

According  to  an  authentic  narration,  the  Noble  Messenger  (Upon  whom  be blessings and peace) said to Fatima: “You will be the first of my Family to join me [after my death].”[52] Six months later, what he said took place.

He also told Abu Dharr: “You will be expelled  from here [Medina],  will live alone, and will die alone.”[53] All this came true twenty years later.

Once, as he awakened in the house of Anas b. Malik’s aunt, Umm Haram, he smilingly said: “I saw my community waging war on the seas like kings sitting on thrones.”[54] Umm Haram requested: “Pray that I too will be with them.” He said: “You shall be.” Forty years later she accompanied  her husband, ‘Ubada b. Samit, on the conquest of Cyprus. She died there, and her grave has ever since been visited by the believers. Thus, what the Messenger (UWBP) foretold proved to be true.

Also according to an authentic narration, he declared: “From the tribe of Thaqif, a liar will claim prophethood,  and a bloodthirsty tyrant will appear.”[55]  With this, he gave  tidings  of  the  infamous  Mukhtar,  who  claimed  prophethood,  and  of  the barbarous Hajjaj, who killed a hundred thousand people.

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[52] Bukhari, Manaqib, 25; Muslim, Fada’il al-Sahaba,101; Ibn Maja, Jana’iz, 64; Musnad, vi, 240, 282, 283; Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 340.

[53] al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, iii, 345; Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 343; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 700; al-‘Asqalani, al-Matalib al-‘Aliya, iv, 116 no: 4109; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya, v, 8-9; al-‘Asqalani, al-Isaba, iv, 64.

[54] Bukhari, Ta’bir, 12; Jihad, 3, 8, 63, 75; Isti’dhan, 41; Muslim, ‘Imara, 160, 160; Abu Da’ud, Jihad, 9; Tirmidhi, Fada’il al-Jihad, 15; Nasa’i, Jihad, 40; Ibn Maja, Jihad, 10; Darimi, Jihad, 28; Muwatta’, Jihad, 39; Musnad, iii, 240, 264; al-Albani, Sahih al-Jami’ al-Saghir, vi, 24, no: 6620; al-Hakim, al- Mustadrak, iv, 556.

[55] Muslim, Fada’il al-Sahaba, 229; Tirmidhi, Fitan, 44; Manaqib, 73; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, iii, 450; iv, 254.