Bayhaqi's Dala'il — water from between the fingers at al-Hudaybiyya

دلائل النبوة للبيهيقي — الماء من بين الأصابع يوم الحديبية

At al-Hudaybiyya the people were thirsty and had only a little water in a bowl from which the Prophet ﷺ was performing ablution. When they pressed toward him he put his hand in the bowl and water gushed from between his fingers like springs; they drank, performed ablution and had enough. Jabir reported the company numbered fifteen hundred and said: had we been a hundred thousand it would have sufficed. Al-Bukhari and Muslim both transmit the report.

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«عطش الناس يوم الحديبية، فوضع رسول الله يده في الركوة فجعل الماء يثور بين أصابعه مثل العيون، فشربوا وتوضؤوا»

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Part of: Dalail al-Nubuwwa
Mentions: Muhammad

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Dalail al-Nubuwwa — al-Bayhaqi

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Bayhaqi's Dala'il — the palm trunk's lament

The Prophet used to preach facing a palm trunk until a minbar was made for him; the trunk then wailed and wept until its cry was heard, and he came down and embraced it — it was said to weep for no longer hearing the remembrance at its side. Another chain has the trunk crack and split as he passed it, until he touched it and it fell silent; Ubayy ibn Ka'b kept it in his house until worms consumed it. Al-Shafi'i summed it: God gave no prophet what He gave Muhammad — the trunk that wailed when the minbar was set for him.