Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 211
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 211 prophecy contains the news that Khuraim and Princess Sh i m a ’ would be alive at that time. Khuraim relates, "During the reign of Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra , when we conquered Hi rah, we saw the scene exactly as the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa had told us. Sh i m a ’ wearing a veil was coming towards us riding on a mule. I clung to the mule and claimed that the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa had given the Princess as a gift to me. The commander of the army Kh a lid bin Wal i d ra called me over and asked me to provide the proof of my claim. I presented Muhammad bin Maslamah ra and Muhammad bin Bash i r An sa r i ra as my witnesses. This was accepted and Sh i m a ’was handed over to me. Her brother came to me for negotiating some agreement and asked me to sell her back to him. I told him that I would not accept less than one thousand dirhams. He immediately paid me this sum and I returned Sh i m a ’ to him. My companions said to me afterwards that if I had demanded ten thousand dirhams, he would have given them to you. Why did you demand only one thousand? I replied that I do not even know how to count more than one thousand". 19 Hadrat Ab u Hurairah ra who witnessed the fulfilment of this dream and seeing these victories, used to say that the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa had said, "The keys of the treasurers of the world were given to me. It was