who had sent him; he could only hear their voices. When God’s Messenger finished praying, his eyes were opened, for no need remained for them to be sealed.(284)

Also, it is related through an authentic narration from Abu Bakr the Veracious that after the Sura about Abu Lahab had been revealed, his wife, Hammalat al-Hatab (the wood carrier) Umm Jamil, came to the Ka‘ba with a stone in her hand. She saw Abu Bakr, who was sitting beside the Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace), and asked him, “Where’s your friend? I hear that he mocked me. If I see him, I will hit him in the mouth with this rock.” She could not see God’s Messenger, although he was sitting beside him.(285) Of course, a wood-carrier of Hell like that could not enter the presence of the ‘Sultan of Lawlak,’(286) who was under Divine protection, and see him. How could she?

The Fifth Event: It is related through a sound narration that ‘Amir b. Tufayl and Arbad b. Qays conspired to assassinate God’s Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace). ‘Amir said: “I’ll keep him busy, and you strike him.” They went, but Arbad did not do anything. Amir asked him later why he did not strike him. Arbad answered: “How could I? Every time I intended to hit him, I saw you between us.

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(284) Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa: i, 351; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa: iii, 242.
(285) Qadi Iyad, al-Shifa: i, 349; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa: iii, 233; al-Haythami, Majma al-Zawa’id i, 353; Ibn Hibban, Sahih viii, 152; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak ii, 361.
(286) This refers to the Hadith Qudsi: “But for thee, but for thee, I would not have created the spheres.”(Tr.)