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217 Muslim soldiers. Besides a few , all [of the Muslims] were martyred. O ut of the remaining few, twelve were severely injured. After the Muslims achieved victory in t his battle, a search was ordered for the injured Muslim soldiers. Ikr i mah ra was one of the twelve severely injured soldiers. A Muslim soldier came to him and found him very badly wounded. The soldier said to Ikr i mah ra , “Ikr i mah, I have a goatskin bottle of some water. D rink some water. ” Ikr i mah ra turned his head and saw the son of Ha z rat Abbās ra , Ha z rat Fazal ra lying ne arby. He was also badly wounded. Ikr i mah ra said “My honor does no t allow me to stay alive by drinking this water when the children of the c ompanions of the Holy Prophet sa , who were his helper s when I was their staunch enemy , would die of thirst. First give them some water and if there is any left, come back to me. ” Thus, this soldier went to Faz a l ra. He motioned to another wounded soldier and said, “He is more deserving than I am. First give him some water. ” In this way, whichever wounded soldier he went to, they would send him to the next one and not one drank any water. When he r eached the last injured soldier, he had already passed away. When he came back to Ikr i mah ra , he had also passed away. The s ame was the case for all the rest of them. Now look, this kind of person, who showed such sincerity cannot have been Abu Jahl ’s son. Surely , he was the spiritual son of the Holy Prophet sa. Then the person for whom Hazrat Ikr i mah ra showed such sincerity was not Abu Jahl ’s son or dear one but was in fact a close relative and beloved of the Holy Prophet sa. He didn’t offer th is sacrifice for the non - believers or disbeliever s. But in fact, h e offered this sacrifice for th ose who had accepted the Holy Prophet sa. Thus , Ikr i mah ra who was Abu Jahl ’s son in the physical sense did not prove to be his son, b ut actually proved to be the Holy Prophet ’s sa son. He did his Bai ‘ at at the Holy Prophet ’s sa hand and then offered extraordinary sacrifices for the sake of Islam. Hadith also stands witness to this. Several y ears before Ikr i mah ra became a believer , the Holy Prophet sa prophesied that he would embrac e Islam. It is rec orded in a Hadith that the Holy Prophet sa said , “Once in a dream I saw an angel approaching with a bunch of grapes in his hand. I asked him who that bunch was for. The angel said that the bunch is from the grapes of heaven and your God has sent this for you. I was very happy at this , but I saw that the angel had another bunch with him as well. I inquired whom that was for. He said , ‘This is for Abu Jahl. ’ I was very surprised at this. A bunch of grapes w as sent from heaven for God’s Prophet sa and one was sent for his enemy , Abu Jahl. How can the Holy