The following three examples, related to the eleventh sign, are verysignificant.
First example:
As established through all interpreters' meticulous
veri-fication and all Traditionists' reports, the verse:
When you threw, it was not you that threw,
but God threw
(8:17), refers to the following incident: Dur-ing the
Battle of Badr, God's Messenger took a handful of soil andpebbles and threw
them at the unbelievers' army, saying: "May yourfaces
be deformed." That handful of soil entered each unbeliever's eyes,and
"May your faces be deformed" was heard by each one. They
con-sequently became preoccupied with their eyes and had to retreat, al-though
they had launched the attack.
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The Traditionists, most notablyImam Muslim, report that the
same incident happened during the Battleof Hunayn. As a result, and by God's
Power and permission, each onewas hit in the face by a handful of soil and had
to flee the battlefield, be-ing preoccupied with their eyes.
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As these extraordinary events are beyond human capacity and
materi-al causes, the Qur'an declares:
When you threw, it was not you that threw,but God threw
(8:17).
Second example:
Reliable Traditionists, above all Imam Bukhari andImam
Muslim, report that after the Battle of Khaybar a Jewess roasted agoat,
poisoned it, and sent it to the Messenger. His Companions had
just begun to eat it when God's Messenger suddenly said: "Withdraw yourhands!
It tells me that it is poisoned." Everyone stopped eating exceptBishr ibn
al-Bara', who had taken a morsel of it and later died because of the
poison. God's Messenger sent for the Jewess (Zaynab). When askedwhy she had
done it, she said: "I thought that if you were a Prophet it
127.Majma' al-Zawa'id, 6:84; related by Abu Dawud, Ibn
Hanbal, and Bayhaqi.128.Muslim, no. 1775.
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would not harm you, and that if you were a king it would save
thepeople from you."
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Consider the following point, which adds to the
miraculousness of thisextraordinary event: According to one report, some
Companions alsoheard the goat speaking. The Jews had attempted to harm God's
Messen-ger and his close Companions at the same time. However, the
Prophet'swarning proved true and their plot was unveiled and foiled. When
theProphet, whose Companions never heard an untrue statement from him,said:
"This goat tells me that… ," everyone believed him with the
samecertainty as if they had heard the goat themselves.
Third example:
The following relates three instances of another
miracleresembling those of Moses' shining hand and staff.
129.Abu Dawud, Muqaddima, 11; Bukhari, 2:121; Hakim, 3:219;
Darimi, 1:35; Ibn Han- bal, 1:305; Bayhaqi, 6:256.
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