Miracle 110: The Palace of Emeralds in Paradise
Allamah Majlisi quotes the below incident Behar al-Anwaar, Vol 42, Chp 115, where he has narrated the miracles of Ameerul Momineen manifested in dreams.
‘There was a man in Balkh1, from the Alawites, his family comprised of his wife and daughters. He passed away, leaving behind his wife and children. The wife said, ‘I went out with the daughters to Samarqand2 from the fear of mischief of the enemies, and by coincidence my arrival there was during severe cold (weather). I left my daughters in the Masjid and went to find some food.
I saw the people have gathered near a Sheykh. I asked about him. They said, ‘This is the Sheykh of the city’. I told him that I am a widowed Alawite woman, and that I am in search of some food.
He replied, ‘Show me your proof that you are an Alawite’, and he did not turn towards me. So, I despaired from him and returned to the Masjid. On my way I saw another Sheykh seated upon rubble and there was a group around him.
I said, ‘Who is this?’ They said, ‘A guarantor of the city, and he is a Majus3. I said (to myself), ‘perhaps there would be relief with him’. So, I narrated my condition to him and what had happened with me with the other Sheykh. He called for his servant. When the servant came out, he said to to the servant, ‘Tell your Chieftess (referring to wife of the Sheykh) to clothe her with her own clothes’. The servant entered the home and a woman came out, carrying water with her.
The Sheykh said to her, ‘Go with this woman to so and so Masjid and bring her daughters to our house’. She came with me and brought my daughters, and he set aside a room for us in his house, and we entered the bathroom to clean ourselves and then they clothed us with pride-worthy clothes, and came to us with a variety of foods, and we spent the night as the best night.
When half of the night passed, the Muslim Sheykh of the city saw a dream, that it was the Day of Judgement and that the flag was by the head of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.), and there was a castle of green emeralds. He (s.a.w.a.) asked, who is this castle for? It was said to him, ‘for a believing Muslim’.
The Sheykh went near the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.), but he (s.a.w.a.) turned his face away from him. He said, ‘O Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.)! You are turning away from me while I am a Muslim?’ He (s.a.w.a.) said: ‘Show me the proof that you are a Muslim’.
The man was baffled. Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) said to him: ‘Have you forgotten what you had said to the Alawite woman? And this castle is for the Sheykh in whose house she is now’.
The man woke up from his sleep and was slapping himself and crying profusely, and he sent his servants to the city and he went out himself to find the Alawite woman. He was informed that she was in the house of the Majus. He went to him and said, ‘Where is the Alawite woman?’ He said, ‘With me’. He said, ‘I want her’. He said, ‘This is not possible’. He said, ‘take these thousand dinars and give them to me’. He said, ‘No, by Allah, not even for a hundred thousand dinars’.
When the Muslim Sheykh was persistent upon it, the Majus replied, ‘The dream which you saw, I have seen it as well, and the castle which you had seen has been created for me. By Allah, the Almighty! I did not sleep, neither did anyone in our house slept, except that all of us accepted Islam upon the hands of the Alawite woman and this is from the blessings she brought for us. And I saw Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.), and he said to me: ‘The castle is for you and for your family due to what you did with the Alawite, and you are from the people of Paradise’.4