The story of Zamzam water

Abraham's travel to Mecca

Ibrahim, peace be upon him, immigrated, accompanied by his wife Sarah, from Iraq, heading to Palestine, after his pagan people met him by blocking him from the path of God Almighty, and they wanted to burn him with fire, and after he settled in his city, which was later called Hebron after him for a period of time, he was forced to leave for Egypt ; To supply food, when he went to Egypt and his wife Sarah was one of the most beautiful women on earth, so the wicked Pharaoh of Egypt wanted her, so she prayed to God - the Almighty - to turn his plot and oppression away from her, so whenever he approached her, he fell into a severe epilepsy, so he asked her to pray to God for him to take away what is in him. The incident was repeated several times, so the wicked knew that Sarah was preserved by the strong and dear protection, so he divorced her and gave her a maid to serve her, and her name was Hajar, so when Sarah returned to Abraham - upon him be peace - she endowed Hagar to him, and the reason for that was that his marriage to Sarah lasted for twenty years without giving birth to him, so she loved That he would have a son, so Ibrahim - peace be upon him - entered upon Hagar, and she became pregnant, then Hagar soon gave birth to Ismail, peace be upon him.

Zamzam water miracle

Ibrahim - peace be upon him - arrived in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, and it was a barren desert with no water, no trees, or people. This valley in which there is no forgetting or anything?), He did not answer her, so she repeated the question to him, but he did not turn to her, then she repeated the question repeatedly, but he did not turn to her, so she said: (Has God commanded you to do this?) He said: Yes, and she said: So he does not let us go Then I came back, and Abraham went to complete his call by order of God Almighty, so he turned to God - the Almighty - with supplication, God Almighty said: (Our Lord, I have settled some of my offspring in an uncultivated valley near Your Sacred House, our Lord, so that they may establish prayer, so make the hearts of some of the people yearn for them, and provide them with gratitude for the fruits)And it was only hours until the water ran out, and the anguish became severe for Hagar, and Ismael - peace be upon him - began crying profusely from the severity of hunger and thirst, and she climbed to Mount Safa looking for relief and then returned to him whenever she heard his voice, while they were in that state and she reached Effort Hagar, I heard a voice, and relief came to them from God - the Almighty - by sending them Gabriel, peace be upon him, and he hit the ground with his foot, and a great spring of water gushed out of it called Zamzam, and made Hagar wash him; That is, you make the water like a basin, so she and Ismail - peace be upon them both - drank until they were full, and the Messenger of God said: (May God have mercy on Umm Ismail, if she had left Zamzam - or he said: if she had not scooped water - then Zamzam would have been a source of water)Then the water of Zamzam remained as it was, until the tribe of Jurhum ruled Mecca, and there was a fight between them and the tribe of Khuza’a. Peace be upon him.

Zamzam excavation

While Abd al-Muttalib, the grandfather of the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - was sleeping at the Kaaba one day, he saw in a dream that he was being ordered to dig Zamzam, so he informed the Quraysh of that, and they said to him: Did he show you his location? He said: No, so they said to him: Go back and sleep, if it was a vision from God, you will know his place, so he went back and fell asleep, and the same voice came to him in a dream again, and said to him: (Dig Zamzam, if you dig it you will not regret it, and it is a legacy from your greatest father, it never bleeds And do not slander, you water the Great Pilgrims like ostriches that are full of ostriches that are not divided, and a vow is made for them to be blessed. He said to him: (At the village of ants at the peck of the crow tomorrow), and when Abd al-Muttalib took his only son, Harith and his pickaxe, and went to search for descriptions, he found the village of ants between two of the idols of Quraysh, namely: Asaf and Naela, and that was the site where the Quraysh slaughtered offerings, and while he was standing there, as a crow clicked at the place, so Abd al-Muttalib made sure of the correctness of the description and knew that he had been commanded by God - the Almighty - to dig Zamzam, so when they were digging, the Quraysh gathered on him and said: We will not let you dig the place of sacrifice, but Abd al-Muttalib was determined On that, he said to his son Al-Harith: (Get away from me, for by God, I will go ahead with what I was commanded to do). When they knew that he would not back down from that, they left him, so he dug a little, and the water was flowing, and he said: God is great, and he knew that he had found the right place, so when he continued digging, he found swords And two deer of gold, and shields that the Jurhum tribe had buried before they were exiled from Mecca, so the Quraysh rushed to Abd al-Muttalib, and demanded that he make them a share of what he found, but he refused that, and he said to them: Come to a fair matter for you and me, and they said: What is it? His opinion was to hit it with the lighter at Hubal, and to make two glasses for the Kaaba, and for him two glasses, and for the Quraish two glasses, so they agreed to that, and they gathered at Hubal, and he is the largest of their idols, then he struck the owner of the lighter, so the two gazelles were for the Kaaba, and the swords were for Abd al-Muttalib, and the Quraish had nothing, so he made Abd al-Muttalib used the swords and the two gazelles for the Kaaba, so it was the first gold to cover the Kaaba, and he made Zamzam water for the pilgrims.