Miracle 116: The Lion Near the Grave of Imam Ali (a.s.)
The narrator says,
‘In the year two hundred and sixty (of the lunar calendar), I along with my father Ali Bin Duheym, my uncle Husayn Bin Duheym along with a group of people went to Al-Ghary1 to visit the grave of our master Ameerul Momineen (a.s.).
When we reached near the grave, in those days, there were black rocks around his grave and there was no construction around it. While we were in his noble presence, and some of us were reciting the Holy Quran, and some of us were praying Salat, and some of us were reciting Ziyarat, a lion came towards us.
The lion was approaching towards the grave, when it came near us, we said to each other, ‘let us distance from the grave till we look at what it intends’.
We distanced, and the lion came to the grave. It went on to hit its paws upon the grave. A man from us went near it, witnessed it and returned. He informed us, and the fear declined from us, and we all came until we witnessed it hitting its paw upon the graves, and there was an injury in it.
It did not cease to wipe it for a while, then it withdrew from the grave and went, and we returned to what we had been earlier, from the recitation, and the Salat and the Ziyarat, and reciting the Quran’’.2