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the pupils of whose eyes had become white, was cured so that 

 he could see to thread a needle. Once when the Prophet was 

 using spittle to cure a man, some bystanders ridiculed; the 

 sick man was cured, and before long the scoffers died of the 

 same disease. Wounds received in battle from swords and 

 poisoned arrows, were healed by Mohammed in miraculous 

 ways. Headaches were cured, and lunatics and lepers were 

 healed by having applied to them water in which Mohammed 

 had bathed. 



Several cases of the dead being raised are given; a 

 woman who was drowned was called back to life by the 

 Prophet; a young man had died, and his elder brother who 

 was blind came to tell the Prophet that the deceased was just 

 .•about to embrace Islam when he was cut off, and now the 

 blind brother had nobody to depend upon; Mohammed 

 prayed and the dead revived, and both brothers followed the 

 Faith. Two brothers were playing and one accidentally killed 

 the other, and then in grief threw himself down from a high 

 place and was killed; Mohammed had pity on the parents, 

 and told the mother to call her children, and they both came 

 to life again. A man was killed in battle, whose mother was 

 old and had no one to depend upon ; when the Prophet heard 

 of it he told them to seek for the body of the slain, and then 

 he placed his hand upon it and prayed, and the man revived 

 :as if from a sleep. 



During one of the battles it was desired to feed the 

 troops, and a pint of wheat and one sheep were made suffi- 

 •cient for 1,000 men, and there was as much left in the 

 kettle at the end as at the beginning. On another occasion 

 there was a shortage of water, and the Prophet gave order 

 to gather together all the water vessels of the camp, and then 

 as he pointed his finger over them, they overflowed with water. 

 A single jug of water was all that could be found on one 

 •occasion when it was time for the ceremonial bath ; Mohammed 

 used it first; then handed the jug to another, and so it passed 

 on to 1,500 people, all having sufficient. Sometimes the 

 water of wells was found to be bitter or impotable, and the 

 Prophet obligingly purified or made sweet the water by the 

 •simple process of spitting into it. In the case of the Zem-Zem 

 well, it is said that after this operation the water was not 

 only sweet and fragrant but was also efficacious in healing all 

 manner of diseases ! 



After the Prophet's death people took the utensils which 

 had been used to cook his food, and filled them with water, 

 which, when drunk, healed all kinds of diseases. The 

 daughter of Abu Bekr retained a garment of the Prophet, and 

 sick people who could not be cured by medicines, if they put 



