Abu Nu'aym's Dala'il — water gushing from between the fingers, travel and stay

دلائل النبوة لأبي نعيم — فوران الماء من بين الأصابع سفراً وحضراً

Abu Nu'aym devotes a chapter to water gushing from between the fingers 'on journey and at home', prefacing it as one of the most wondrous signs, likening it to Moses' water from the stone yet greater — since water springing from flesh and bone surpasses its springing from stone. He transmits two reports: Ibn Mas'ud's that while travelling with the Prophet ﷺ at prayer time they had only a little water, so he put his palm in it and water burst from between his fingers as he called 'come to ablution, the blessing is from God', and a second report to the same effect.

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«بينا نحن مع رسول الله في سفر إذ حضرت الصلاة وليس معنا إلا شيء يسير، فدعا بماء فصبّه في صحفة فجعل كفه فيه فجعل الماء يتفجر من بين أصابعه، ثم نادى: ألا هلُم إلى الوضوء، والبركة من الله»

A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources

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Part of: Dalail al-Nubuwwa — Abu Nu'aym al-Isbahani
Mentions: Muhammad

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Dalail al-Nubuwwa — Abu Nu'aym al-Isbahani (Dar al-Nafa'is)

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Abu Nu'aym's Dala'il — Quraysh sends Utba ibn Rabi'a

In chapter fifteen Abu Nu'aym reports from Jabir ibn Abd Allah that the Quraysh agreed to send to the man who had split their community — their most learned in magic, soothsaying and poetry — and chose Utba ibn Rabi'a. Utba asked 'are you better than Abd Allah?', then Abd al-Muttalib, then Hashim, and the Prophet remained silent each time; then Utba said: if you claim to be better than them, speak so we hear you — we have never seen a fool more ominous for his people, who scattered our community and disgraced us among the Arabs until word spread that Quraysh has a sorcerer and a soothsayer. The author presents it as the chief polemical pressure the Prophet faced, answered in the book by the signs that appeared.