citly foretold the coming of the Prophet of the end of time. [^368]
[^368]: Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāya wa’l-Nihāya, ii, 355-69; Bayhaqī, Dalā’il al-Nubūwwa, ii, 126, 129; Abū Nu‘aym, Dalā’il al-Nubūwwa, i, 125; Qāḍī Iyāḍ, al-Shifā’, i, 365; ‘Alī al-Qārī, Sharḥ al-Shifā’, i, 747; Suyūṭī, al-Khaṣā’iṣ al-Kubrā, i, 128-30.
As written in detail in the books of history and the Prophet’s biography, soothsayers like Sawad b. Qarib al-Dawsi, Khunafir, Af‘a Najran, Jidhl b. Jidhl al-Kindi, Ibn Khalasat al-Dawsi, and Fatima bint al-Nu‘man al-Najariyya, foretold the coming of the Prophet of the end of time, stating that that Prophet was Muhammad (UWBP). [^369]
[^369]: Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāya wa’l-Nihāya, ii, 335; Bayhaqī, Dalā’il al-Nubūwwa, ii, 248; Abū Nu‘aym, Dalā’il al-Nubūwwa, i, 125; Qāḍī Iyāḍ, al-Shifā’, i, 365; ‘Alī al-Qārī, Sharḥ al-Shifā’, i, 747; Suyūṭī, al-Khaṣā’iṣ al-Kubrā, i, 128-30; al-Haythamī, Majma‘ al-Zawā’id, viii, 248-9, 251.
Also, one of ‘Uthman’s relations, Sa‘d b. bint al-Kurayz, received knowledge from the Unseen by means of soothsaying about the prophethood of Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace). In the early days of Islam, he told ‘Uthman Dhi’l-Nurayn to go and accept faith. ‘Uthman did so and entered the fold of Islam at the beginning. Sa‘d expressed the event with a poem, which went like this:
Through my words, God has guided ‘Uthman to the source
That yields righteousness; truly God guides to the truth. [^370]
[^370]: Suyūṭī, al-Khaṣā’iṣ al-Kubrā, i, 258
Like soothsayers, jinns who were invisible but whose voices were heard, called hātif, repeatedly foretold the coming of God’s Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace). For example:
An invisible jinn shouted out the following to Dhayab b. al-Harith, and was the reason that he and others accepted Islam: “O Dhayab! O Dhayab! Listen to the oddest thing: Muhammad has appeared with the Book. He is calling on Mecca, yet they do not respond to him!” [^371]
[^371]: Ḥalabī, al-Sīrat al-Ḥalabīya, i, 335-7; Suyūṭī, al-Khaṣā’iṣ al-Kubrā, i, 358; Yūsuf Nabhānī, Ḥujjat Allāh ‘alā’l-‘Ālamīn, 181.
Another unseen jinn called out to Sama‘ b. Qarrat al-Ghatafani, “The truth has come in manifest radiance, the false is destroyed and uprooted,” and caused him and some others to believe. [^372]
[^372]: ‘Alī al-Qārī, Sharḥ al-Shifā’, i, 748; Suyūṭī, al-Khaṣā’iṣ al-Kubrā, i, 252.
Such messages and good tidings given by unseen jinns are extremely well-known and numerous.
Just as the voices of jinns and the soothsayers foretold him, so too idols and sacrifices slaughtered for the idols gave news of the prophethood of God’s Messenger (UWBP). For example:
One is the famous story of the idol of the Mazan tribe, who shouted out: