Dead goat rose twitching its ears

Sayyidunā Ka’b Bin Mālik رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ has narrated, ‘Sayyidunā Jābir Bin ‘Abdullāĥ رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ once came to the court of the Holy Prophet صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم. He noticed weakness from his facial expressions. He immediately went home where he told his wife, ‘Today I have noticed a change on the blessed face of the Noble Prophet صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم, and I think it is because of hunger. Do you have anything?’ She replied, ‘By Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, nothing except for this goat and a little flour.’ He رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ immediately slaughtered the goat and ordered his wife to cook the meat and bread. When the food was prepared, he brought it in the court of the Holy Prophet صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم and served it in a large bowl.

The Prophet of Raḥmaĥ صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘O Jābir, go and call people.’ Sayyidunā Jābir رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ abided by what he was ordered. The Holy Prophet صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم then ordered, ‘Send them to me in small groups.’ They entered and began to eat; when one group finished another would come until all the people ate. The quantity of the food did not reduce even after everyone ate. The Noble Prophet صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم would order [the people] to eat but not to break the bones. He صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم then gathered all the bones in the centre of the container, placed his blessed hand on it and recited something which I (Sayyidunā Jābir) did not hear. In no time, the goat whose meat we had just eaten rose from the dead, twitching its ears.

The Holy Prophet صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘O Jābir! Take your goat back.’ I then returned the goat to my wife. Astonished, she asked, ‘What is this!’ I replied, ‘By Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, this is the same goat that we slaughtered. Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ has resurrected it by the blessing of the Du’ā of the Beloved and Blessed Prophet صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم.’ The narrator goes on to say that his wife said spontaneously, ‘I testify that he صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم is indeed the Beloved Prophet of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ.’

(Al-Khaṣāiṣ-ul-Kubrā, vol. 2, pp. 112)

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