See this decisive miracle of Muhammad (UWBP) and say: “O God! Grant him blessings and peace to the number of drops of water, and to his Family!”

S e v e n t h   E x a m p l e : The authentic books and foremost Bukhari and Muslim narrate from ‘Imran b. Husain: “On one journey we and God’s Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) were without water. He said to me and ‘Ali: ‘There is a woman in such-and-such a place together with her beast, which is laden with two full water-bags. Go and fetch her!’ ‘Ali and I went and found the woman and the water in exactly the place described, and brought her to God’s Messenger (UWBP).  He ordered: ‘Pour a little of the water into a vessel.’ We did so and he prayed for the blessing of increase. He then commanded everyone to come to fill his water-bag. All the men came, drank, and filled their water-bags. Afterwards he gave an order to collect something for the woman, and they filled her skirt.” ‘Imran said: “I imagined  the two water-bags  were constantly filling. The Noble Messenger  (Upon whom be blessings and peace) told the woman: ‘You can go now. We did not take water from you; rather God gave us water from His treasury.’”[122]

E i g h t h  E x a m p l e : Scholars of Hadith, primarily Ibn Khuzayma in his Sahih, narrate from ‘Umar: “We ran out of water during the Tabuk expedition. Some people even slaughtered their camels, wrung out the innards and drank the liquid. Abu Bakr the Veracious requested the Noble Messenger  (Upon whom be blessings and peace) to pray. The Messenger (UWBP) raised his hands, and before he had lowered them clouds gathered, and such rain fell that we filled our containers. Then the rain stopped, and it had not fallen beyond the limits of the army.”[123] That is to say, no chance was involved in the incident; it was purely a miracle of Muhammad  (Upon whom be blessings and peace).

[121] Muslim, Masajid, 311.

[122] Bukhari, Tayammum, 6; Manaqib, 25; Muslim, Masajid, 312; Musnad, iv, 434-5; Bayhaqi, Dala’il al-Nubuwwa, iv, 216; vi, 130.

[123] al-Haythami, Majma’ al-Zawa’id, vi, 194; al-Hindi, Kanz al-‘Ummal, xii, 353; Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 190; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 600; Bayhaqi, Dala’il al-Nubuwwa, ii, 63; Suyuti, al-Khasa’is al-Kubra, ii, 105.