About  Zayd  b.  Suwahan,  he  said:  “One  of  his  limbs  will  precede  him  to Paradise.”[93]  In the Battle of Nihawand, one of his hands was martyred and in effect reached heaven first.

The incidents we have so far mentioned concerning predictions relating to the Unseen comprise only one out of his ten different kinds of miracle. Yet of this kind alone, we have not even mentioned one tenth. In addition to what is mentioned here, four  general  kinds  of  miracle  concerning  predictions  of  the  Unseen  have  been described briefly in the Twenty-Fifth Word, which is about the miraculousness of the Qur’an. Now consider the kinds mentioned here together with the four extensive sorts communicated from the Unseen by the tongue of the Qur’an, you will see what conclusive,  indisputable,  sound, brilliant, and firm proof of his messengership  they form. Indeed, anyone whose heart and mind are not corrupted will of a surety believe that  Muhammad  (Upon  whom  be  blessings  and  peace)  was  the  Messenger  of  a Glorious One who is the Creator of all things, the One All-Knowing of the Unseen, and received knowledge from Him.

SEVENTH SIGN

We will give in this Sign a few examples from among the Prophet’s (UWBP) miracles that relate to his effecting increase in food and that are definite to the degree of ‘consensus in meaning.’ But before going into the subject, some introductory comments will be appropriate.

Introduction:   Each  of  the  following   examples   of  miracles   is  narrated,   as authentic, through various – sometimes as many as sixteen – chains of transmission. Most of them occurred  in the presence  of large  assemblies,  and were narrated by many truthful persons of good repute from among those present. For example, from among  seventy  men who  partook of four handfuls  of food  and were filled,[93]  one relates the incident and the others do not contradict him. Their silence thus indicates their confirmation. For if in that era of truth and truthfulness the Companions, who were lovers of the truth and earnest and honest, had witnessed even the tiniest lie, they would have rejected and denied it. But the incidents we will be citing were narrated by many, and the others who witnessed  them remained  silent. Thus, each of these incidents has the certainty of ‘consensus in meaning.’

[93] Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 343; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 702; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa’, iii, 214; al-Haythami, Majma’ al-Zawa’id, ix, 398; al-‘Asqalani, al-Matalib al-‘Aliya, iv, 91, no: 4047.

[94] Bukhari, Manaqib, 25; Muslim, Ashriba, 142; Tirmidhi, Manaqib, 6; Ibn Maja, At’ima, 47; Muwatta’, Sifat al-Nabi, 19.