It is related in Khasaais al-Kubra that Umm Shurayk’s husband had embraced Islam and had emigrated to the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi wa Sallam). She says: The relatives of my husband asked me whether I was following the same religion as my husband. I declared on oath that I was following the same religion. They said: We will torture you. Thus, they mounted me on a dull camel, whose condition was worst than all others and took me. They would feed me honey and bread and wouldn’t give a drop of water. When the sun would be at its peak at noon, they would stop, pitch their tents and rest and would leave me out in the sun. So much so that I began to take leave of my senses. They put me through the same treatment for 3 days. Then, they asked me to abandon the religion that I had embraced. I couldn’t understand what they were saying, but I would gesture with my raised index finger (as a gesture of being a Muslim). As was their custom, they left me out in the sun and went into their tents. At that moment, my thirst was tormenting me. Suddenly, I felt the coolness of a pail of water on my bosom and I saw that it had water in it. I took a deep drought from it and it separated from me. I watched it and it hung between the earth and the sky and I had no power to take it. Then it came near me a second time. Again, I drank deeply from it and again it became suspended between the earth and the sky. When it came to me a third time, my thirst was quenched and I poured water over my head and clothes. After some time, when they came out of their tents, they saw my (drenched) condition and asked me from where the water had come. I answered: From Allah Most High, which was sent specially for me. On hearing this, they ran to check their water-skins and pails. When they saw that all their stores of water were untouched, they believed in what I had told and declared: We testify that your Lord is (now) our Lord and He is the One who has quenched your thirst in such a place and in such a dangerous condition. He is the One who has revealed Islam. Thus, all of them embraced Islam and emigrated to Madinah Munawwarah.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:58:17 +0000