Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Ya’la (may Allah be pleased with him) bin Murrah narrates: I saw three signs of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) which no one before me saw, nor will anyone after me see. I set out with him on a journey until we passed by a woman who had a child with her. She said, “O Messenger of Allah! My son has been afflicted by a calamity.” He said, “Give him to me.” She handed the child to you. You placed him between yourself and the middle part of the saddle. Then you opened his mouth and blew into it three times, saying, “Bismillah, ana ‘Abdullah, ikhsa’ ‘aduwwallah” (In the name of Allah, I am the servant of Allah, be disgraced, enemy of Allah). Then you gave the child back to her and said, “Meet us at this place on our return and tell us what happened.” He says: We went and then returned, and saw the woman at that place, and she had many goats with her. You said, “What happened to your child?” She said, “By the One who sent you with the truth, we have not noticed anything about him until now.” You took those goats and said, “Dismount and take one goat, and return the rest.” He says: One day I went out with you to the open field until, when we had gone far, you said, “Look, do you see anything that could conceal me?” I said, “O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! I see nothing that could conceal you except a tree, but it cannot conceal you.” You said, “Is there anything near it?” I said, “Behind it is another tree, about the same size or close to it.” You said, “Go to both of them and say: The Messenger of Allah commands you, by Allah’s order, to come together.” He says: The two trees came together, so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went to relieve himself. Then he returned and said, “Go to them and say: The Messenger of Allah commands you both to return each to your place.” He says: One day I was sitting with you when a camel came, crying, and sat in front of you. Then tears began to flow from its eyes. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “See, whose camel is this? Its condition is bad.” He says: I went out to find its owner and found that the camel belonged to a man from the Ansar. I called him to you. You said, “What is the story of your camel?” He said, “By Allah, I do not know what its condition is, except that we worked it and made it carry water until it became unable to carry water. Then in the evening we decided to slaughter it and distribute its meat.” You said, “Do not do so. Give it to me as a gift or sell it to me.” He said, “O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! It is yours.” You marked it as charity and then let it go.