Imam Jalil b. Wahab also reports: “During that same battle, Hubayb b. Yasaf was struck on the shoulder by a sword so that he received a grievous wound with part of it almost severed. The Noble Messenger (UWBP) joined the arm and shoulder back together again and breathed on it, and it was healed. [198]

Thus, for sure these two incidents are separate, single reports, but if an authority like Ibn Wahab considered them to be sound, and if they occurred during a battle like that of Badr, which was a spring of miracles, and if there were many other examples that  resembled  these  two  incidents,  for  sure  it  may  be  said  that  they  definitely occurred. Indeed, there are perhaps a thousand examples established in authentic traditions for which the blessed hand of God’s Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) was healing.

A   Q u e s t i o n : You describe many things as being reported unanimously through many channels, but we are hearing most of them for the first time. Surely something the various reports of which are numerous and unanimous cannot remain thus secret?

T h e  A n s w e r : There are numerous things concerning the reports of which there is a consensus and which are self-evident to the learned scholars of the Shari‘a, but are unknown to those who are not one of them. For the scholars of Hadith there are many such things, which for poets have not even the status of isolated reports, and so on. The specialists  of all the sciences  explain the theories  and axioms of their science, and the ordinary people rely on them and either submit to them, or become one of them and see for themselves. Now, the events the reports of which we describe as forming ‘true consensus,‘ ‘consensus in meaning,’ or which express certainty like consensus,  have  been  shown  to  be  thus  by both  the  scholars  of  Hadith,  and  the scholars of the Shari‘a, and the scholars of the principles of religion, and by most of the other levels of the ‘ulama. If ordinary people in their heedlessness or the ignorant who close their eyes to the truth do not know this, the fault is theirs.

F i f t h  E x a m p l e : Having explained and authenticated it, Imam Baghawi relates: “At the Battle of Khandaq, ‘Ali b. al-Hakam’s leg was broken by the blow of an unbeliever. The Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) rubbed it. At  the  moment  he  did  so,  it  was  healed  so  that  ‘Ali  b.  al-Hakam  did  not  even dismount from his horse.” [199]

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[198] Dala’il al-Nubuwwa, vi, 178; Ibn Hajar, al-Isaba, i, 418; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghaba, ii, 118.

[199] Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 324; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 656; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa’, iii, 118; al-Haythami, Majma’ al-Zawa’id, iv, 134.