and make his aim true.” From that day on Sa‘d never loosed an arrow without hitting the mark, nor offered a supplication without it being granted.
Al-Ḥākim records in his Ṣaḥīḥ that ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with him—said: “I fell ill and the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—came to visit me while I was praying:
‘O Allah, if my appointed term has arrived, then relieve me; if it is still deferred, then raise me up; and if it is a trial, then endow me with patience.’
He thereupon said, ‘O Allah, cure him; O Allah, grant him well-being.’ Then he said to me, ‘Rise.’ I rose, and that pain never came back to me.”
In the two Ṣaḥīḥs it is related from Umm Khālid who said: “Garments were brought to the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—among them a small black khamīṣa, whereupon he said: