People were very influenced by him until his news reached...

People were very influenced by him until his news reached the Prophet (S) who sent for him, asking, “ Are you seditious O Huthayfa? ” He replied, “Certainly not O Messenger of Allah (S), but I have kept the stone that once had harmed your foot.

I put it in a piece of cloth, and now I cure patients by it .” The Prophet (S) said to people, “ If you trust in a stone, it shall benefit you .”[^4] We do not mean by these traditions that we place trust in jugglers and swindlers, or that we do not believe in scientific medicine. How would that be when we always depend on the Prophet’s saying, “ Bring a physician to him, because Allah has created the disease and created the cure to it ”?

And this does not mean that Muslims only depend on supplication, amulets, the Qur'an, blessing and other things that are familiar in all Muslim countries for treatment. We quote these evidences just to argue against the Wahabis who deny all these things and consider whoever believes in them as a polytheist.

Surely, the companions had their justification in seeking blessing and tawassul in the Prophet (S), because they lived with him and saw his miracles and charismata which astonished them and filled their selves with reverence and hope.

Biographers, who were interested in the Prophet’s miracles, have mentioned all the miracles mentioned in the Qur'an of the prophets who had preceded him, such as healing the patients, the blind and the lepers, giving life to the dead, the coming down of food from the heaven, talking with animals and many other signs. We shall mention only one or two traditions from al-Bukhari and let researchers themselves read what scholars have written on this matter.

Qatada narrated that Anas said, “ A vessel was brought to the Prophet (S) while he was in az-Zawra. He put his hand inside the vessel and water began gushing out from between his fingers. All people performed wudhu (from that water)”. Qatada said , “I asked Anas how many men there were and he said that they were three hundred or about three hundred men .”[^5] Jabir ibn Abdullah narrated, “ On the day of al-Hudaybiyya, people felt thirsty. There was a pot before the Prophet (S).

He performed wudhu’. People hurried towards him, and he asked, ‘What happened to you?’ They said, ‘We do not have water to perform wudhu’ or drink, except this water before you.’ He put his hand in the pot, and water began gushing out between his fingers like springs.