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An army was traveling, exhausted by fatigue and worn out by thirst, with neither water nor relief in sight, when they met a woman whose meager water they needed, so they called upon her, took what they required, and it multiplied along their path.

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They met a woman whose meager water they needed, so they called upon her, took what they required, and it multiplied in a miraculous manner that only prophets could perform; it was blessed and returned to her just as it had been, and even more, and they gathered provisions for her, and furthermore, they remembered her favor

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by sparing her people and her village from battle; the wondrous story relates: We were on a journey, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, called 'Ali and another man, saying, "Go and search for water," so they departed.

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They came across a woman with two water-skins or leather bags of water upon her camel, and they asked her, "Where is the water?" She replied, "My last encounter with water was at this very hour yesterday, and our men have stayed behind searching for water."

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He said to her, "Come along then." She asked, "Where to?" He said, "To the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him." She said, "The one who is called a Sabian?" He replied, "He is the one you mean, so proceed."

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So they brought her to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and related the story to him; he said: They asked her to dismount from her camel, and the Prophet, peace be upon him, called for a vessel and poured into it from the mouths of the two water-skins.

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He tied up their openings and opened the lower spouts of the two water-skins, and it was announced among the people, "Give drink and draw water!" So whoever wished drank, and whoever wished drew water, and in it...

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Then the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, "Gather provisions for her," so they collected for her pressed dates, flour, and sawiq, until they had gathered a generous amount of food for her.

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They placed it in a cloth, helped her mount her camel, and set the bundle of food before her; he said to her, "You know that we did not diminish your water in the least, but rather it was Allah who gave us drink."

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She returned to her people having been delayed from them, and they asked, "What kept you, so-and-so?" She said, "A wonder! Two men met me and took me to this person called the Sabian, and he did such-and-such.

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By Allah, he is either the greatest sorcerer between this and that"—raising her middle and index fingers toward the sky, meaning between heaven and earth—"or he is truly the Messenger of Allah!"

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Here, her water was returned to her, she was rewarded, and she was honorably dismissed; the woman who owned the water never forgot that encounter and the wonders it contained.

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And she noticed that the Muslim raiding parties never subjected her people to harm or warfare.

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It is related that after that, the Muslims would raid the polytheists around her, but they would spare the encampment from which she came.

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So one day she said to her people, "I see that these people deliberately spare you, so would you consider embracing Islam?" They obeyed her and entered Islam.

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Let none of us underestimate the impact of benevolence and returning favors, which even led to sparing her people from battle in honor of that good deed.

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She grasped the truth, called her people, and became the cause of their guidance; peace be upon you.

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This is among the beauties of the Prophetic biography (Seerah).