Speaking about miracles.

The Shaykh : One of the people here in the town went out to the open desert with a container of dates, the *mughmi* kind, you know the *mughmi*? Yes, dates that are pressed, well-pressed, yes, and of the best quality of dates. And a second container with bread, well-known bread, and also a container of milk. Dates, bread, and milk. He dug a hole for them and placed them in the hole, meaning he buried them. Then he said to some of the people, "The sound-hearted ones, let us go out today for a walk and see the desert." They went out walking to see the desert and sat around this place. He said to him, "I praise Allah, my supplication is answered. Yes, how is it answered? He said, yes, if you wish now..." Then he raised his hands and faced the qiblah and said, "O Allah, we ask You for a container of dates, a container of bread, and... milk." He persisted in the supplication. Then he said to these companions, the sound-hearted ones, "Dig this up now." They dug it up, and by Allah, the matter was as he said. He said, "Now you know that I have miracles (karamat). They are generous, meaning the sound-hearted ones." Once they said, "Yes, this is a miracle. If we were to supplicate night and day like these deserts, we would not get even a container of dates, and you brought Allah a container of dates and bread... milk. Yes, this is perhaps an expression of a trick of the mind, but it is a trick with something tangible, because the man went out and buried it, and the matter appeared as he supplicated. But those people are served by the devils, because the devils are eager to mislead people, and whoever misleads people is their friend and their close one (wali). They take charge of them and facilitate matters for them and bring them the extraordinary, and perhaps they carry them in the air, and people do not notice. Even some people say, Shaykh al-Islam: "Some people imagine themselves in my image and stand up and preach to the people, saying, 'I am Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah'" and they say what they say of falsehood based on the fact that they are Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. The devils help them in that. Is this a miracle (karamah)? The answer is no. It is an extraordinary matter, but it is not at the hand of a close friend of Allah (wali). As for the miracle (karamah), the scholars said: "It is established in the Qur'an and the Sunnah, in the past and the future, and it will continue until the Day of Resurrection". So among the miracles in the past is the story of the People of the Cave.
The People of the Cave lived among a polytheistic people, and they had believed in Allah and feared that they would be overcome in their affair. So they left the village, turning to Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Allah made easy for them a cave in a mountain. This cave faced north. When the sun rose, it turned away from their cave to the right, and when it set, it cut them off from the left, so it did not enter upon them and spoil their bodies, nor did they lack from it. They remained in this cave for three hundred years and increased by nine, and they were sleeping. Allah turned them to the right and to the left in the summer and in the winter. The heat did not disturb them, and the cold did not hurt them. They did not hunger, nor did they thirst, nor did they tire of sleeping for three hundred and nine years. Is this a miracle or not? By Allah, it is a miracle. Who is able to sleep this sleep without food or drink or covering or bedding? Among the miracles of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is that He resurrected them, and the shirk had been removed from this village, and they were safe from shirk.
Maryam (may Allah be pleased with her) was also honored by Allah with what? When the pangs of labor came to her at the trunk of the palm tree, the trunk of the palm tree. And Allah commanded her to shake by its trunk, and fresh dates fell down, harvested. Who would believe that a woman in labor shakes by the trunk of the palm tree? Not with her head, because she did not raise the shaking with her head; that is possible, but the shaking from the trunk is impossible. And yet they fall to the ground and do not spoil. It is known that if the fresh dates fall, they spoil, but they did not spoil. Fresh dates, harvested, meaning picked from the best of the harvests, or from the best of the fruit, correctly, from the best of the fruit. Yes, physical nourishment and spiritual nourishment. Eat and drink for the body, and be at ease in the heart. Yes, do not fear and do not grieve. This is an impossible matter to occur by custom. This is among the miracles. Yes.
The one whom Allah caused to die for a hundred years and then resurrected is a miracle.
As for the Sunnah, the miracles are many, and so they remain until the Day of Resurrection. Sahih al-Bukhari in the creed. Well, please, read to us. Yes, here, come.
The student: ... .

The Shaykh : But it appears that it is short, or is it not? As for the hadith , your companion brought it and said that Muslim and Ahmad narrated it with similar wordings. The hadith was narrated by al-Bukhari and others. It is long, O Muhammad. Good, if Allah wills.