A
group of polytheists came to Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) demanded the miracles of
Hazrat Nuh (a.s.). Hazrat usa (a.s.), Hazrat Ibrahim (a.s.) and Hazrat Isa
(a.s.)… At that time, Jibraeel (a.s.) appeared and said: O Muhammad (s.a.w.a.)
after Durood and salutation, Allah says: Now I will show these signs for these
people and they will deny them, except those whom Allah protects; they will be
safe. But I shall increase your proof and clarify it more and show it.
Direct
the fourth party, whose leader is Abu Jahl, to stay near you so that they can
get the information of all three miracles and the miracle they want to see will
be manifested here only.
After
that His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) told Abu Jahl: The third party has also seen the
signs of Allah and miracle of the Messenger (s.a.w.a.), now your request is
left, tell me which sign you want to see? He said: You say that Isa Ibne Maryam
informed about things they had eaten and things they stored in the house; you
tell me what I ate today and what is stored in my house? And since you claim
that Allah has given you more excellence than Isa, you also tell me what I did
after lunch? His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) said: I will inform you what you ate and
Allah will disgrace you in your request. If you believe in Allah, you will not be
harmed and if you persist in your infidelity, your disgracefulness will be more
in thehereafter than the world and you will not escape from it.
Abu
Jahl said: Reply to my question. His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) said: Abu Jahl, today
you ordered for chicken Kebab and when you wanted to eat and stretched your
hand towards it, your brother Abu Jatri bin Hassham came and asked permission
to enter the house but because of your miserliness, you feared that he would
eat from it, so you hid it under your skirt and did not open it till he went
away.
Abu
Jahl said: O Muhammad, you have lied. There is not an iota of truth in it and I
have not eaten chicken and left some from it. Now tell me, according to your
opinion, what did I do after eating? His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) said: You had 300
dinars of your own and ten thousand entrusted to you by people. Some
deposited
a hundred, some two hundred, three hundred, five hundred, seven hundred and some
had kept a thousand etc. with you, and their money was kept in separate bags;
but you decided to embezzle it and told everyone that you don’t owe anything to
them. And today you ate the chicken’s breast and kept the rest of it aside. And
you happily buried all entrusted money thinking that it now belongs to you. But
what Allah has decided is something else.
Abu
Jahl said: O Muhammad, what you said is not true and neither more nor less of
this has happened and I have not buried anything and the amount of ten thousand
dinars which was entrusted to me, has been stolen. His Eminence (s.a.w.a.)
said: O Abu Jahl! I don’t say anything of my own. Jibraeel Amin is present here
and he conveys what Allah says. After that, His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) asked
Jibraeel (a.s.) to bring that
chicken
from which he had eaten and all of a sudden that chicken arrived there. His Eminence
(s.a.w.a.) said: O Abu Jahl! Do you know this chicken? He said: No, and I have not
eaten from it; you don’t know anything and such chickens are many in the world
that some part is eaten from it. His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) said: O chicken, Abu
Jahl gives a lie to Jibraeel (a.s.) and Allah also. Now you give witness about
my truth and Abu Jahl’s lie.
The
chicken spoke up by Allah’s command and said: O Muhammad (s.a.w.a.), I give
witness, that you are the Messenger of the Lord of the worlds and the chief of
the whole world and Abu Jahl is the enemy of Allah, the Exalted; and he denies
all this knowingly. He has eaten a side of mine and left the remaining part.
You have informed him about it and summoned me here to falsify him; curse of
Allah and of all those who curse, be upon him.
Besides
being an infidel, he is also a miser. When his brother asked permission to
enter, he feared that his brother may not eat a morsel and he hid me under his
skirt. O Prophet! You are the most truthful of all and Abu Jahl is accursed and
a confirmed liar. Then His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) said to Abu Jahl: Is this
miracle not sufficient for you? Now accept faith so that you be safe from Allah’s
chastisement. Abu Jahl said: In my opinion all this is superstition and
imagination. His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) said: Between seeing and hearing this
chicken and hearing all Quraish and Arabs, do you find any difference?
He
said: Nothing. His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) said: Whatever you see and feel, is it
all mere imagination? He said: It is not. His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) said: Then
this is also not imaginary, otherwise how can it be true that you see anything
in the world and believe it? After that, His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) touched the
eaten part of the chicken and more flesh appeared than it had before. His Eminence
(s.a.w.a.) said: O Abu Jahl, have you seen this miracle? He said: O Muhammad, I
have no confidence and trust on you.
After
that His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) asked Jibraeel (a.s.) to bring what this enemy of
Allah has buried. That very moment, all the bags of 10300 dinars came before
His Eminence (s.a.w.a.). His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) picked up one and said: Call
such and such person. He came and he was the owner of that money. The Prophet
said: This is your bag that Abu Jahl had embezzled; and he returned it to him.
Then he called, one by one, all the owners of the money and returned all ten
thousand dinars; Abu Jahl was badly humiliated. Finally three hundred dinars
remained with the Prophet. His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) asked Abu Jahl to bring
faith: so that you would get these 300 dinars and Allah would bless you and you
would be richer than all Quraishites. He said: I don’t believe all this but I
am taking the dinars as they belong to me. And he tried to reach out to them
but His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) asked the chicken to prevent Abu Jahl and remove
him away from the dinars. As soon as the chicken heard the Prophet’s order it
jumped up, caught Abu Jahl in its beak and carried him up and finally left him
on the roof of his house. Then His Eminence (s.a.w.a.) distributed
the dinars among the poor and told the people: O my companions, Allah manifested
His miracle for Abu Jahl but he remained an infidel and continued to disbelieve.
And this bird would be one of the birds of Paradise and it would fly about there.
(Hayaat
al-Qoolub of Allamah Mohammad Baqir Majlisi, pg. 237 -
239)
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