Miracle 21: Twelve Springs Gush Forth from the Euphrates

Hazrat Imam Jafar Sadiq (a.s.) narrates from his noble forefathers,

‘When Imam Ali (a.s.) came back from Siffeen, he (a.s.) stopped at the banks of Euphrates, then he (a.s.) removed an arrow from his quiver. Then he extracted a yellow stick and struck the Euphrates with it and said: ‘Burst (springs)!’

Twelve springs burst forth, each spring being like the hill and the people were looking at it. Then he (a.s.) spoke with a speech they did not understand. The fish came upon raising their heads extolling the Holiness (of Allah, the Almighty, and the exclamation of Takbeer, and said, ‘The greetings be unto you, O Divine authority of Allah in His earth, and O The Eye of Allah among His servants! Your people abandoned you at Siffeen like how Haroun Bin Imran (a.s.) had been abandoned by his people’.

He (a.s.) said to them: ‘Did you hear?’ They said, ‘Yes’. He (a.s.) said: ‘So, this is a sign for me upon you all, and I keep you all as witnessed upon it’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 112, Trad 8 ↩