Also, foremost Imam Tirmidhi relates: “The Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) prayed for Sa‘d b. Abi Waqqas: ‘O God, answer his prayer!’ [^224] After that everyone feared his malediction, and the answering of his prayers also became famous. [^225]

[^224]: Tirmidhī, Manāqib, 27, no: 3751; Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṣaḥīḥ, no: 12215; al-Ḥākim, al-Mustadrak, iii, 499; Abū Na‘īm, Ḥilyat al-Awliyā’, i, 93; Abū Na‘īm, Dalā’il al-Nubūwwa, iii, 206; al-Albānī, Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ, iii, 251, no: 6116; al-Mubārakfūrī, Tuḥfat al-Aḥwazī, x, 253-4 no: 3835; Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Faḍā’il al-Ṣaḥāba, ii, 750, no: 1038; Ibn al-Asīr, Jāmi‘ al-Uṣūl, x, 16, no: 6535.

[^225]: Ibn al-Athīr, Usd al-Ghāba, ii, 367; Ibn Ḥajar, al-Iṣāba, ii, 33.

On another occasion, God’s Messenger (UWBP) prayed for the famous Abu Qatada that he might remain young: “May God prosper your face! O God, bless his hair and his skin!” When he died at the age of seventy, he was like a youth of fifteen. This is related through a sound chain of narrators. [^226]

[^226]: Qāḍī Iyāḍ, al-Shifā’, i, 327; ‘Alī al-Qārī, Sharḥ al-Shifā’, i, 660; al-Khafājī, Sharḥ al-Shifā’, iii, 128.

There is also the famous story of the poet Nabigha: he recited one of his poems before God’s Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace), which ran: “Our glory and praise have reached to the skies; we want to ascend even higher.” God’s Messenger (UWBP) asked jokingly: “Where, beyond the skies?” Nabigha replied: “To Paradise.” He then recited another of his meaningful poems, and the Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) prayed: “May God not spoil your mouth!” It was through the blessing of this prayer of the Prophet (UWBP) that he did not have a single tooth missing when he was one hundred and twenty years old. Whenever he lost a tooth, another would appear in its place. [^227]

[^227]: ‘Alī al-Qārī, Sharḥ al-Shifā’, i, 661; Ibn Ḥajar, al-Iṣāba fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥāba, no: 8639; al-‘Asqalānī, al-Maṭālib al-‘Ālīya, no: 4060; Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāya wa’l Nihāya, vi, 168.

Also, it is related through an authentic narration that he prayed for Imam ‘Ali: “O God, protect him from heat and cold!” Through the blessing of this prayer, Imam ‘Ali used to wear summer clothes in winter, and winter clothes in summer. He used to say: “I never suffer from heat or cold, thanks to that prayer.” [^228]

[^228]: al-Haythamī, Majma‘ al-Zawā’id, ix, 122; Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Faḍā’il al-Ṣaḥāba, no: 950; Ibn Māja, Muqaddima 11, No: 117; Musnad, i, 99, 133; Musnad (Taḥqīq: Aḥmad Shākir), ii, 120, no: 1114; al-Khafājī, Sharḥ al-Shifā’, iii, 133.

Also, he prayed for Fatima: “O God, do not let her go hungry!” And Fatima used to say: “I never suffered from hunger after that prayer.” [^229]

[^229]: Qāḍī Iyāḍ, al-Shifā’, i, 328; al-Khafājī, Sharḥ al-Shifā’, iii, 134; al-Haythamī, Majma‘ al-Zawā’id, ix, 203.

Also, Tufayl b. ‘Amr asked God’s Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) for a miracle to show to his tribe. The Messenger (UWBP)