While in Makka under great tortures, the Prophet predicted the future victories of Islam


2. Bukhari and Abu Dawud quote Habbab ibn Arat, who said:


Once, during the days of trouble and torture in Makka, I went to God’s Messenger, who was sitting in the shade of the Ka‘ba. I was still a slave in the hands of the Makkans then. They inflicted on me severe tortures. Unable to endure those tortures any more, I requested God’s Messenger to pray to God for help and salvation. But he turned towards me and said:


By God, previous communities had to endure more pitiless tortures. Some of them were made to lie in ditches and cut in two with saws but this did not make them forsake their faith. They were skinned alive but they never became weak against the enemy. Surely God will perfect this religion, but you display undue haste. A day will come when a woman will travel alone by herself from San’a to Hadramawt fearing nothing but wild beasts. However, you show impatience.




Habbab concluded:


By God, what God’s Messenger predicted that day, have all come true. I have personally witnessed it all.

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The amazing thing about this hadith [Prophetic saying] is that at this time, the muslims were being tortured severely simply because they said our Lord is God Alone in Makkah. They were helpless/weak, yet the Messenger of God, Muhammad (peace be upon him) was already promising that there would be people travelling in Yemen without fear of anyone besides wild beasts.

What's surprising is that Islaam wasn't even established within the city of Makkah itself, yet the Messenger of God, Muhammad (peace be upon him) had promised that it would spread all the way to Yemen! And within a few decades this was exactly the case, Islaam had settled within Yemen, aswell as Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan etc. And the companions of God's Messenger themselves witnessed the peace and justice which came through it.