Prophet Abraham (AS) And Birds
We don’t know anything 100%. We do not know if our food is free from poison 100% but instead we induce that a reputable seller won’t sell poisoned food, that no one was poisoned in our area so we induce the food is very likely to be poison free. Similarly if you travel to Lahore and see a sign board saying “Lahore 150 km away’, you don’t stop and think “How can I be 100% sure Lahore is 150 km away, it could be more or less or whether even Lahore is in that direction or not, maybe the board sign is lying’ No, you don’t think like that, you induce ‘Well, there is a sign that is likely put by a person and it hasn’t been removed so it is likely true. All the other signs on the way also gave similar information too.” So we don’t have 100% knowledge of anything, we induce . So the statement that “How could he know 100% sure’ needs to be dropped. As for your question. Allah specifically told in that passage to Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) to train the birds to come to him so that only these birds would come to him and not a wild bird he did not know. He spent time doing that, learning how they look, behave and speak. Just like you call your pet by their name and only your pet comes without any hesitation while a astray animal does not, shows which animal is your pet and which isn’t (unless you doubt your pet’s identity every time you see them and forget how they look, behave or sound but I assume you don’t, like most owners do when they bond with their trained animals). So when Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) put the birds on the hilltops as per Allah’s command and then called the birds as per Allah’s command and then the birds that were confirmed to be dead, suddenly came to him obediently (unlike a wild bird), alive and interacted with him, retaining their memories of Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) even after death and resurrection made Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) induce that these were indeed the same birds that came to him just as Allah said they would in the time period when Allah’s instruction were given. The passage even details that they would come to Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) ‘rushing’ as in, they did not even hesitate or get lost, they came to Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) quickly as soon as he called them to show that these were indeed the birds he spent time training and how they were indeed dead yet here they are alive and rushing to him as if they were never killed at all.