A Miraculous Incident When Muhammad Was Nurtured by His Uncle

There was a day when Mecca was suffering a long period of drought which made the people miserable. No rains ever dropped and poverty was going widespread. The community of Quraish was distressed and anxious about the situation. Then they shouted calling Abu THalib.

“O Abu Thalib! The water in the valleys have gone dry and poverty is out of control! Let’s pray to ask for rains!”

Abu Thalib went out of his house together with his nephew, Muhammad. He held Muhammad and attach his back onto the wall of Ka’bah. The sky was so clean that no hank of clouds was there at all. Not so long afterwards, all of a sudden clouds appeared and then it rained! All the valleys now got so much water and all fields were now fertilised.

The other miracle of Muhammad when he was still an adolescent was the blessing of his presence. Eating together with Muhammad would be completely different from that without him. Whenever his uncle and his uncle’s children ate together with Muhammad, they would feel satisfied after the eating finished. However, whenever Muhammad was absent from eating with them, they would still feel hungry although the foods already ran out.

When Muhammad and Abu Thalib’s children woke up from their sleep, their faces would look very different. His brothers would look dirty and tousled, while Muhammad’s face would always look as though he got eye shadow on his eyes so that he always looked fresh and bright. This is one of the reasons why Abu  Thalib loved Muhammad more than his own children. He even felt closer to Muhammad rather than to his own children. Abu Thalib struggled for him, defended him, supported him, and sacrificed everything for him even until the prophethood era. Abu Thalib kept looking after Muhammad until the end of his life.