Miracle 5: The Dispute Regarding a Camel

‘From Ammar bin Yasir (r.a.) having said, ‘I was in front of our Master Ameerul Momineen (a.s.), and there was a voice which had seized the central Masjid of Kufa. He (a.s.) said: ‘O Ammar! Bring Zulfiqar (sword), the terminator of the lifespan(s)!’ I came to him (a.s.) with Zulfiqar. He (a.s.) said: ‘Go out, O Ammar, and prevent the man from oppressing this woman. Either he desists or else prevent him with Zulfiqar!’

He (Ammar) said, ‘I went out and saw there was a man and a woman who were holding on to the reins of the camel, and the woman was saying, ‘The camel is mine!’ And the man was saying, ‘The camel is mine!’

I said, ‘Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) forbids you from oppressing this woman!’ He said, ‘he (a.s.) is preoccupying with me with his pre-occupation while he (a.s.) washes his hands from the blood of the Muslims, those he (a.s.) killed at Al-Basra, and he (a.s.) wants to take my camel and hand it to this lying woman?’

Janabe Ammar (r.a.), said, ‘I returned to inform my master, and he (a.s.) had already come out and the appearance of anger was in his face, and he (a.s.) said: ‘Woe be unto you! Free the camel of the woman’. He said, ‘It is mine’. Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) said: ‘You are lying, O accursed!’

He said, ‘So, who will testify for the woman, O Ali?’

He (a.s.) said: ‘The testifier is the one whom no one from Kufa can deny’. Then man said, ‘When the witness testifies, and he was truthful, I will submit it to the woman’.

Imam Ali (a.s.) said: ‘Speak, O camel! Who do you belong to?’ It said in an eloquent tongue, ‘O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) and best of the successors! I belonged to this woman for some ten years’.

Imam Ali (a.s.) said (to the woman): ‘Take your camel’, and he (a.s.) hit the man with a strike dividing him in two halves’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 111, Trad 7 ↩