He went and did this, and when he returned, we saw that his eyes had opened and he could see very well.”(192)
F o u r t h E x a m p l e : A great authority, Ibn Wahab, reports: “The hero Mu‘awwidh b. ‘Afra’, one of the fourteen martyrs of the Battle of Badr, had his hand cut off by Abu Jahl the Accursed while fighting with him. He took the hand with his other hand and went to the Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace). God’s Messenger stuck the hand in its place and spread his spittle over it. It was at once healed. Mu‘awwidh went again to fight and continued to do so until he was martyred.”(193)
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 (Upon whom be blessings and peace) joined the arm and shoulder back together again and breathed on it, and it was healed.(194)
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
----------------------------------(192) Tirmidhi, Da’wat 119 no: 3578; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak i, 526; Bayhaqi, Dala’il al-Nubuwwa vi, 166; Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa: i, 322.
(193) Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa: i, 324; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa: i, 656; Ibn Sayyid al-Nas, ‘Uyun al-Athar i, 261.
(194) Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa: i, 324; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa: i, 656; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya vi, 164; Bayhaqi, Dala’il al-Nubuwwa vi, 134.