to walk as a punishment for his bad behaviour.(203)

The Seventh: A shameless woman, who was like a child, asked for a piece of the food God’s Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) was eating. He gave her some, but she said: “No, I want a piece from your mouth.” So he gave her a piece, and, after eating the morsel, she became the most modest and bashful woman in Madinah.(204)

There are not eighty but perhaps eight hundred further examples of this miracle similar to the eight mentioned above, most of which are related in the Hadith books and books of the Prophet’s biography. For sure, since the blessed hand of God’s Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) was like a pharmacy of Luqman the Wise, and his spittle was like a spring of Khidr’s water of life, and his breath soothing and healing like that of Jesus (Upon whom be peace), certainly many people would have recourse to him; and the sick, children, and the insane did flock to him in great numbers, and they were all healed. Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Yamani, known as ‘Tavus’, even, who made the Hajj forty times and for forty years performed the morning prayer with the ablution of the preceeding night prayers, and who met with many of the Companions and was one of the greatest scholars of the

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(203) Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa: i, 328; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa: iii, 137; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa: i, 663.
(204) Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa: i, 325; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa: i, 657; al-Haythami, Majma’ al-Zawa’id viii, 312.