It is well-known that the Arabian Peninsula is a place where water and agriculture are scarce. For this reason, its people, and particularly the Companions in the early days of Islam, suffered want and scarcity. They were also frequently afflicted with thirst. Because of this, many important, evident miracles of Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace) were related to food and water. Rather than being miracles proving his claim to prophethood,  these wonders were on account of need and like divine gifts, dominical bounty, and banquets of the Most Merciful One for His Most Noble Messenger (UWBP). For those who saw the miracles had already assented to his  prophethood.  However,  as the  miracles  took  place,  their  belief  increased  and became more luminous.

EIGHTH SIGN

This section describes miracles which were manifested in connection with water.

Introduction:  It is known  that when events that take place  among groups of people are related individually and not contradicted by others, it indicates the veracity of the reports. For by virtue of his very nature, man is inclined to call a lie a lie. In particular  since  the  people  in  question  were  the  Companions,  who  were  more intolerant of lies than anyone else; if the incidents concerned God’s Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace), and if the narrator was a renowned Companion, then certainly the narrator gives his report on behalf of all who witnessed the incident. However, all the miracles involving water that we will cite below were transmitted through  many  channels,  entrusted  by many  Companions  to  thousands  of  precise scholars of the following generation, who in turn passed them down correctly to the great  interpreters  of  the  Law  of  the  second  century.  They  received  them  with complete seriousness and reverence, accepted them, then handed them down to the exacting  scholars  of succeeding  centuries.  Hence,  the traditions  have  reached  our times, passing through thousands of strong, reliable hands.