Miracle 108: The End of One Who Hated Imam Ali (a.s.)

The below incident is reported from the book Kashf al-Yaqeen, it is mentioned that,

‘The poet Al-Babbagah went as a guest to one of the kings, and he used to be a guest of the king every year. The King had gone for hunting, so a minister of the king wrote to to him informing of the poets arrival and settled him in one of his houses. And upon that house there was a room in which Al-Babbagah used to spend the night in it, and the room also had an exit towards the footpath.

And every night the guard used to come out after midnight and shout at the top of his voice, ‘O heedless ones! Remember Allah’. Then he would revile Imam Ali (a.s.), and the poet Al-Babbagah would get upset to his voice. By chance, during one of the nights, the poet saw a dream, he saw the same footpath and saw that Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and Imam Ali (a.s.) were on that footpath and they came across the guard.

The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) said to Imam Ali (a.s.): ‘Smack him! Today it is forty years for him that he is reviling you’. Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) struck him between his shoulders’. The poet woke up upset from the dream. Then he waited for the guard to shout every night, like he used to, but he did not hear the guard that night. The poet was very surprised.

Then he heard shouting and men had come over to the house of Al-Haris. He asked them the news. They said to him, ‘Al-Haris got struck between his shoulders of a measurement of a palm, and it is split, and it prevents him from settling down’. The died by the time it was morning and nearly forty people had seen him being with this state.

And at the city of Mosul there was a person called Ahmad Bin Hamdoun Bin Al-Haris Al-Adawy. He was severely inimical with lot of hatred for our master Ameerul Momineen (a.s.). One of the people of Mosul intended to perform the Hajj. He came to him to bid him farewell. He said to him, ‘I have determined upon going out to the Hajj, so if there was a need for you, you can let me know until I can fulfil it for you’.

He said, ‘There is an important need for me, and it is easy to you’. He said to him, ‘Instruct me with it until I get it done’. He said, ‘When you have fulfilled the Hajj and arrive at Medina, and have visited the Prophet (s.a.w.a.), address him (s.a.w.a.) on my behalf and say, ‘O Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.)! How much was your fascination from Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.) that you got him (a.s.) married to your daughter (s.a.), despite his large belly, or his thin legs, or his bald head’, and he made him swear an oath and determined upon him that he would deliver to him this speech.

When he returned to Medina and had fulfilled his needs, he forgot that bequest. He saw Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) in his dream. He (a.s.) said to him: ‘Will you not deliver, the bequest of so and so to you?’ He woke up and walked at that time to the Holy grave and addressed the Prophet (s.a.w.a.) with what that man had instructed him with.

Then he slept and saw Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) (in the dream). He (a.s.) grabbed him and walked, he (a.s.) and him (the man’s messenger), to the house of that man, and opened the doors, and he (a.s.) took the large blade and slaughtered him. Then he (a.s.) wiped the blade with the quilt which was upon him. Then he (a.s.) came to the top of the door. He (a.s.) raised his hand and placed the blade beneath it and went out.

The pilgrim woke up from that and he and his companion wrote down the detail of the dream. And the governor of Mosul woke up during that night and seized the neighbour and the suspects and threw them in the prison. And the people of Mosul were surprised from his killing when they could neither find any signs of entry nor any scaler over the wall, nor any open door, nor lock.

And the ruler remained confused regarding his matter, not knowing what he should do in his judgment, for if anyone had arrived from outside, there would have been an excuse with these signs, and nothing from the house had been stolen. However, the neighbour and others did not cease to be in the prison up to the arrival of the pilgrim from Makkah.

He met the neighbour in the prison and asked about that. He said, ‘During such and such night they found so and so having been slaughtered in his house and his murderer is unknown’. He became thoughtful and said to his companion, ‘Bring out the detail of the dream’. There, it was the same night of the killing.

Then he and the people in their entirety walked to the door of the killed one. He instructed with bringing out the quilt and informed them with the blood therein. They found it to be like what he had said. Then he instructed with raising the wrapping (on the door). They raised it and found the knife under it. So, they recognised the truthfulness of his dream and released the prisoners, and its people returned to the faith.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 42, Chp 115, Trad 12 ↩