Miracle 39: A Fresh Spring of Water Appears

It is narrated in al-Ikhtisas from Abu Saeed Aqeysa that,

‘He had travelled with Ameerul Momineen, Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.) towards Karbala, and severe thirst had hit them. Imam Ali (a.s.) descended in the wilderness. He rolled up his sleeves from his hands and then he (a.s.) took to clearing the sand and removed it until a rock appeared to him.

He (a.s.) carried it and placed it aside, and there was a spring of water under it, freshest as what I had tasted and intensely white. He (a.s.) drank and we drank. Then we quenched our animals. Then he (a.s.) covered it. Then we travelled from it for a while. Then he (a.s.) stopped and said, ‘I want you all to return and find the spring’.

The people tried to find it until they were fed up, but they were not able upon it. They returned to him (a.s.) and said, ‘We were not able anything’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 112, Trad 28 ↩