Allah sent a storm on polytheists as a miracle for
the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.). The story is that Thabit bin Aflakh, a follower of
the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) had killed a polytheist in a battle and his wife vowed
that she would drink liquor in the skull of her husband’s killer. Thabit was
killed in the Battle of Uhad, in which the Muslims had to suffer huge losses.
When the polytheists went away, the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.), along with his
companion, came to bury the dead. The woman came to Abu Sufyan and requested
him to send some men with her slave so that they may go and bring the severed
head of Thabit so that she may drink wine in the skull and fulfill her vow.
When her slave had conveyed the news of Thabit’s killing she had freed him and
also given him a maidservant as reward. Thus when she requested Abu Sufyan, he
ordered two hundred of his brave men to go and cut off the head of Thabit and bring
it to this woman. Went they set out for this purpose, a storm blew up and
carried the dead body to a depression and they had also went in that same
direction. Suddenly it started raining and the two hundred men drowned in the
floods and no sign remained of either the dead body or those men and Allah did
not allow that woman to fulfill her vow. Thus this miracle of His Eminence
(a.s.) is greater than the storm of Copts.
(Hayaat
al-Qoolub of Allamah Mohammad Baqir
Majlisi, pg. 244)
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