and when he was killed, he was lifted up, and ‘Āmir ibn al-Tufayl saw him being raised. ‘Urwah said: “They believe that the angels lifted him up.”

“Umm Ayman” set out as an emigrant with neither provisions nor water, and nearly died of thirst. She was fasting, and when the time came to break her fast, she heard a sound above her head. She looked up and saw a bucket suspended above her. She drank from it until her thirst was quenched, and never felt thirsty again for the rest of her life.

“Safīnah,” the freedman of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, told a lion that he was an emissary of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. The lion walked with him until it brought him to his destination.

Whenever “al-Barā’ ibn Mālik” swore an oath calling upon Allah Most High, Allah fulfilled his oath. When the fighting became fierce for the Muslims during jihad, they would say, “O Barā’, call upon your Lord with an oath!” He would say, “My Lord, I call upon You with an oath to make them turn their backs before us!” Then the enemy would be defeated. On the day of “al-Qādisiyyah,” he said, “My Lord, I call upon You with an oath to make them turn their backs before us and make me the first martyr!” Their enemies turned their backs before them, and al-Barā’ was killed as a martyr.

“Khālid ibn al-Walīd” besieged a strongly fortified fortress. Its people said, “We will not submit until you drink