sweet scent like musk.(234)

The Fourth: Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal reports that a bucketful of water was drawn from a well. After God’s Messenger (PBUH) had put some of his spittle in the bucket and poured it into the well, it began to emit a sweet scent like musk.(235)

The Fifth: Hammad b. Salama, who was a man of God and was trusted and accepted by Imam Muslim and the scholars of the Maghrib, reports that the Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) filled a leather bag with water, and breathed into it while praying. He then tied it up and gave it to some of the Companions, saying: “Do not open it except when you perform the ablutions!” When they opened the bag to take ablutions, they saw pure milk with cream at its opening.(236)

Thus, these five instances have been narrated by well-known and important authorities. Together with those that are not mentioned here, they prove the occurrence of this kind of miracle as definitely as those about the various reports of which there is ‘consensus in meaning.’

E i g h t h E x a m p l e : There were numerous instances of barren and dry goats producing milk, and abundantly at that, through the touch and prayers of God’s Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and

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(234) Ibn Maja, Tahara 136 no: 659; Qadi Iyad, al-Shifaş i, 332; ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifaş i, 669.
(235) al-Sa’ati, al-Fath al-Rabbani xxii, 667.
(236) Qadi Iyad, al-Shifaş i, 334; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifaş iii, 160.