Miracle 7: Imam Ali (a.s.) and the Morphing of the Eels

‘Imam Sadiq (a.s.) said: ‘While Imam Ali (a.s.) was at Kufa when the Jews surrounded him (a.s.) and they said, ‘You are the one who claimed that the eel is from us, community of Jews then (when) we were morphed!’

He (a.s.) said to them: ‘Yes’. Then he (a.s.) struck with his hand upon the ground and grabbed a piece of wood and split it into two and spoke with a phrase upon it and spat upon it. Then he (a.s.) threw it in the Euphrates, and there the eels were climbing upon each other saying in a loud voice to Ameerul Momineen (a.s.), ‘We are the group from the children of Israel. Your Wilayah was presented to us, but we had refused to accept it, so Allah, the Almighty Morphed us as eels’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 111, Trad 11 ↩