Also, foremost Imam Tirmidhi relates: “The Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) prayed for Sa‘d b. Abi Waqqas: ‘O God, answer his prayer!’[224] After  that everyone  feared  his malediction,  and the answering  of his prayers  also became famous.[225]

On another  occasion,  God’s  Messenger  (UWBP)  prayed  for  the  famous  Abu Qatada that he might remain young: “May God prosper your face! O God, bless his hair and his skin!” When he died at the age of seventy, he was like a youth of fifteen. This is related through a sound chain of narrators.[226]

There is also the famous story of the poet Nabigha: he recited one of his poems before God’s Messenger (UWBP), which ran: “Our glory and praise have reached to the skies; we want to ascend even higher.” God’s Messenger (UWBP) asked jokingly: “Where, beyond the skies?” Nabigha replied: “To Paradise.” He then recited another of his meaningful poems, and the Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) prayed: “May God not spoil your mouth!” It was through the blessing of this prayer of the Prophet (UWBP) that he did not have a single tooth missing when he was one hundred and twenty years old. Whenever he lost a tooth, another would appear in its place.[227]

Also, it is related through an authentic narration that he prayed for Imam ‘Ali: “O God, protect him from heat and cold!” Through the blessing of this prayer, Imam ‘Ali used to wear summer clothes in winter, and winter clothes in summer. He used to say: “I never suffer from heat or cold, thanks to that prayer.”[228]

Also, he prayed for Fatima: “O God, do not let her go hungry!” And Fatima used to say: “I never suffered from hunger after that prayer.”[229]

Also, Tufayl  b. ‘Amr  asked  God’s  Messenger  (Upon  whom  be blessings  and peace) for a miracle to show to his tribe. The Messenger (UWBP) prayed:

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[224] Tirmidhi, Manaqib, 27, no: 3751; Ibn Hibban, Sahih, no: 12215; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, iii, 499; Abu Nu’aym, Hilyat al-Awliya, i, 93; Abu Nu’ayim, Dala’il al-Nubuwwa, iii, 206; al-Albani, Mishkat al-Masabih, iii, 251, no: 6116; al-Mubarakfuri, Tuhfat al-Ahwazi, x, 253-4 no: 3835; Ahmad b. Hanbal, Fada’il al-Sahaba, ii, 750, no: 1038; Ibn al-Asir, Jami’ al-Usul, x, 16, no: 6535.

[225] Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghaba, ii, 367; Ibn Hajar, al-Isaba, ii, 33.

[226] Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 327; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 660; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa’, iii, 128.

[227] ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 661; Ibn Hajar, al-Isaba fi Tamyiz al-Sahaba, no: 8639; al- ‘Asqalani, al-Matalib al-‘Aliya, no: 4060; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya, vi, 168.

[228] al-Haythami, Majma’ al-Zawa’id, ix, 122; Ahmad b. Hanbal, Fada’il al-Sahaba, no: 950; Ibn Maja, Muqaddima 11, No: 117; Musnad, i, 99, 133; Musnad (Tahqiq: Ahmad Shakir), ii, 120, no: 1114; al- Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa’, iii, 133.

[229] Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 328; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa’, iii, 134; al-Haythami, Majma’ al-Zawa’id, ix, 203.