—upon him and upon his community, mounted on white steeds on the Day of Badr, the Day of the Trench, and the Day of Ḥunayn. They were seen with the naked eye, fighting in front of him, to his right and to his left, until three hundred and thirteen men—who possessed only two horses—overcame one thousand warriors, fully encased in iron and counted among the foremost horsemen of Arabia, who were left dead, captured, or routed! (1)

(Twenty-Seventh Proof): The words of Daniel, who mentioned him by name explicitly, without hint or circumlocution. He said: “You will notch into your bows fresh arrows, and at your command, O Muhammad, the shafts will be thoroughly soaked.” (2)

The Prophet Daniel also said, when Nebuchadnezzar (3) asked him to interpret a dream he had seen but then forgotten: “O King, you beheld a mighty idol standing before you: its head was of gold, its arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its shanks of iron (4), and its feet of clay. While you were still marveling at it, a stone advanced, struck that idol, smashed it, and it crumbled into dust; the wind blew it away, and the stone turned into a great man who filled the earth. This, O King, is what you saw.”

Nebuchadnezzar said, “You have spoken the truth; what is its interpretation?”

He replied, “You are the golden head you saw. After you, your progeny will rise—this is the silver part, inferior to you—and after him another kingdom will arise, lesser…"