This section concerns miracles connected with water.
Introduction:
If the report of an incident involving many people is
notcontradicted, the incident definitely occurred, even if reported by onlyone
or two individuals, for people, by their very nature, are inclined tocall a lie
a lie. If the people in question were Companions, who weremore intolerant of
lies than ordinary people, if the incidents narratedconcerned God's Messenger,
and if the individual narrator was a well-known Companion, then that narrator
narrates on behalf of all witnesses.In any case, each miracle cited below came
down through variouslines of transmission and was entrusted by many Companions
to thou-sands of exacting Tabi'un scholars. These scholars, in turn,
transmittedthem to the authorities of the next age. Each age's meticulous
researcherspassed them on to their successors with the utmost care and
respect.Thus they reached us after passing through thousands of reliable
hands.Besides, the texts of the Traditions complied while the Prophet and
hisRightly-Guided Caliphs were still alive safely reached the hands of themost
brilliant Tradition scholars, such as Bukhari and Muslim,
who,through the most careful examination and classification, collected,presented,
and taught them. May God reward them abundantly!The flowing of water from the
fingers of God's Messenger, as well asmany people's drinking from it, has the
certainty of
tawatur
, for it is re-lated by those who are incapable of agreeing
upon a lie. In addition, thisoccurred three times before large groups of
people. Many discerning re-searchers (especially Bukhari, Muslim, Imam Malik,
Imam Shu'ayb, andImam Qatada) transmit this miracle from a group of renowned
Compan-ions (among them Anas, Jabir, and Ibn Mas'ud). Out of numerous ex-amples
of such miracles, we mention only nine here.
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