The Sixth Event: It is related through an authentic narration that at the battle either of Uhud or Hunayn, Shayba b. ‘Uthman al-Hajabayya, whose uncle and father Hamza  had  killed,  crept  up  stealthily  on  the  Noble  Messenger  (Upon  whom  be blessings and peace) in order to avenge them. On his raising  his drawn sword, it suddenly slipped from his hand. God’s Messenger (UWBP) turned and looked at him, putting his hand on his chest. Shayba later said: “At that moment there was no one in the world I loved more.” He believed in him. The Messenger (UWBP) told him to go and fight. Shayba said: “I went and fought in front of God’s Messenger (UWBP). If I had come across my own father at that time, I would have struck him!”[300]

Also, on the day of the conquest  of Mecca,  a man called  Fadala  approached God’s Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) with the intention of striking him. The Messenger (UWBP) looked at him, and said, smiling: “What have you told yourself?”, praying that he might be forgiven. Fadala became a believer, and said: “At that moment there was no one in the world I loved more.”[301]

The Seventh Event: According to a sound narration, at the very moment some Jews, with the intention of assassinating him, were going to drop down a large rock on  God’s  Noble  Messenger  (Upon  whom  be  blessings  and  peace)  while  he  was sitting, he rose through divine protection; so the plot came to nothing.[302]

There were many events similar to these seven. The scholars of Hadith, and foremost Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim, relate from ‘A’isha that after the verse, “And God will defend you from men”(5:67) was revealed, God’s Messenger (UWBP) told those who guarded him from time to time: “O men, leave me, for God, the Great and Mighty, protects me!”[303]

[299] Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 353; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa’, iii, 249; Bayhaqi, Dala’il al-Nubuwwa, v, 318

[300] Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 353; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa’, iii, 248; al-Haythami, Majma’ al-Zawa’id, vi, 183-4; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 718; al-‘Asqalani, al-Isaba, ii, 157.

[301] Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 352; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa’, iii, 248; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 718.

[302] Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 353; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa’, iii, 243; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 716; Abu Nu’aym, Dala’il al-Nubuwwa, ii, 489-90.

[303] Tirmidhi, v, 351, no: 3406; Tirmidhi (Tahqiq: Ahmad Shakir), no: 3049; Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa’, i, 352; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, ii, 313.