Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 208
CHAPTER 9 Dreams, visions and prophecies of the Truthful Communicator 208 before the Battle of U h ud that he was slaughtering some cows. He also saw that while wielding the sword, the front part of the sword broke off. The interpretation of this dream was not clear. Later on the message inherent in it became clear that it was an indication of the great sacrifice of the martyrdom of seventy Companions and injury to H u du r sa himself and loss of his teeth. 16 Fulfilment of a dream in the successor or the children Some dreams are fulfilled in the person of the successors, followers, or the children of the person seeing the dream. An exceptionally important and stupendous vision was shown to the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa at the time of the terrible trial of the Battle of A h z a b. On one hand the Muslims of Mad i nah were busy in digging a trench to defend themselves from the attack by the Makkans and on the other hand they were experiencing famine. Hadrat J a bir ra states that the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa was busy in digging the trench with his Companions. They had not eaten for three days. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa himself had strapped two stones on his stomach to relieve the pangs of hunger. 17 Hadrat Br a ’ bin ‘ A zib ra relates more details of this event. He says that the Companions reported to the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa that one hard rock could not be