Miracle 92: Strange Miracles Shown at the Request of Janabe Salman (r.a.)

It is narrated from Janabe Salman that,

‘We were with our Master Ameerul Momineen (a.s.). I said, ‘O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)! I would love to see something from your miracles’. He (a.s.), said: ‘I shall do so, if Allah, the so Desires’.

Then he (a.s.) stood up and entered his house and he (a.s.) came out to me wearing a white robe and white cap while sitting on a black horse. Then he (a.s.) called out: ‘O Qanbar! Bring out that horse!’ He brought out another black horse. He (a.s.) , ‘Ride, O Abu Abdullah!’

Janabe Salman (r.a.) said, ‘I got on it, and suddenly, there were two wings for it attached to his sides. Then Imam (a.s.) shouted at it and it rose in the air, and I was hearing the soft flapping of the wings of the Angels and their Glorification beneath the Throne. Then we stepped upon a coast of the bitter sea covered with waves. Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) looked at it with a stern sideways glance, and the sea calmed down from its turbulence.

I said to him (a.s.), ‘O my Master! The sea has calmed down from its turbulence, from your looking at it!’ He (a.s.) said: ‘O Salman! It feared from my issuing an order regarding it. Then he (a.s) held my hand, and we traveled upon the surface of the water, and the two horses would be following us, no one would be guiding them. By Allah,! Neither our feet nor the hooves of the horses would get wet!’

Janabe Salman (r.a.) said, ‘We crossed that sea and we rose to an island with a lot of trees, and the fruits, and the birds, and the rivers. And there was a large tree with neither any cracks nor blossom (of vegetation). He (a.s), shook it with a stick which was in his hand, so it split up and a she-camel came out from it. Its length was eighty cubits, and its width was forty cubits, and there were its young one behind her. He (a.s.), said: ‘Go near it and drink from its milk!’

Janabe Salman (r.a.) said, ‘I went near it and drank until I was satiated, and its milk was sweeter than the honey and softer than the butter, and I was sufficed. He (a.s.), said: ‘This is excellent, O Janabe Salman (r.a.)!’ I said, ‘My Master, excellent!’ He (a.s.) said: ‘Do you want me to show you what is even more excellent than it?’ I said, ‘Yes, O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)!’

Janabe Salman (r.a.) said, ‘My Master Ameerul Momineen (a.s.), called out: ‘Come out to me, O excellent one!’ A she-camel came out, its length was one hundred and twenty cubits, and its width was sixty cubits, and its head was of red ruby, and its chest was of grey Ambergris, and its legs were of green emeralds, and its reins were of yellow sapphire, and its right side was of gold, and its left side was of silver, and its front was of wet pearls.

He (a.s.), said: ‘O Salman (r.a.)! Drink its milk!’

Janabe Salman (r.a.) said, ‘I swallowed an udder, and there its milk was clear honey. I said, ‘O my Master! Who is this for?’ He (a.s.) said: ‘This is for you and for rest of the Shias from my friends’.

Then he (a.s.), said to it: ‘Return to the rock!’ And it returned immediately.

And he (a.s.) travelled with me in that island until we reached a large tree. There was some food upon it, the aroma of musk was being emitted from it, and there was a bird in the image of the large eagle. Janabe Salman (r.a.), said, ‘That bird leapt and greeted unto him (a.s.), and returned to its place.

I said, ‘O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)! What is this meal?’ He (a.s.), ‘This has been set up in this place for the Shias from my friends up to the Day of Qiyamah’. I said, ‘What is this bird?’ He (a.s.), said: ‘An Angel allocated with it up to the Day of Qiyamah’.

I said, ‘Alone, O my Master?’ He (a.s.), said: ‘Khizr (a.s.), passes by it once during every day’.

Then he (a.s.), grabbed my hand and travelled to a second sea. We crossed over, and there was a large island wherein was a castle from bricks of gold and from bricks of silver, and its terrace was of yellow agate, and upon each corner of the castle, there were seventy rows of Angels. They came and greeted, then he (a.s.) permitted for them to return to their places.

Janabe Salman (r.a.), said, ‘then Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) entered the castle, and there were trees, and the fruits, and the river, and the variety of vegetation. Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) went on to walk in it until he (a.s.) arrived at its end.

He (a.s.), paused at a pond which was in the orchard. Then he (a.s.) ascended to a mansion, and there was a chair of red gold. He (a.s) sat upon it, and we looked at the castle. There was a black sea, its waves were turbulent like the lofty mountains. He (a.s) looked sternly (at it). It calmed down from its turbulence until it was like the sinner.

I said, ‘O my Master! The sea calmed down from its turbulent by your looking at it!’ He (a.s.) said: ‘It feared from my issuing an order regarding it. Do you know, O Salman! which sea this is?’ I said, ‘No, O my Master!’ He (a.s.) said: ‘It is the one in which Pharaoh had drowned, the sins have filled it. It was carried upon the wings of Jibrael (a.s.). Then he (a.s.) crammed these in this sea, so it collapsed, and will not reach its tranquillity up to the Day of Qiyamah’.

I said, ‘O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)! Have we travelled (at least) two Farsakhs (10 km)?’ He (a.s.), said: ‘O Salman! You have already travelled fifty thousand Farsakhs and have circled the world ten times’. I said, ‘O my Chief! How can this be?’

He (a.s.) said: ‘When it so happened that Zulqarnain had gone around its east and its west and reached to the barrier of Gog and Magog, so where is the objection upon me, and I am Ameer of the Momineen, and caliph of Lord of the worlds? O Salman! Have you not read the Words of Allah, the Almighty Mighty and Majestic where He is Saying: (He is) Knower of the unseen, and He does not Reveal His hidden matters upon anyone [72:26] Except one He Chooses from a Rasool, [72:27]’. I said, ‘Yes, O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)!’

He (a.s.) said: ‘I am that Chosen one, I am the Divine scholar. I am the one Allah, the Almighty eased the difficulties to me, so the distances were folded for him’.

Janabe Salman (r.a.), said, ‘I heard a shout being shouted with in the sky. I heard the voice and could not see the person, and he was saying: ‘You speak the truth! You are the truthful! The ratified! May the Salawaat of Allah be upon you!’

He said, ‘Then he (a.s.), got up. He (a.s.) rode the horse, and I rode with him (a.s.), and he (a.s.) shouted at them, and they flew in the air. Then we stepped at the door of Kufa. All this and three hours had passed from the night.

He (a.s.), said to me: ‘O Salman! The woe of all woes will be for the one who does not recognise us as is the right of our being recognised and denies our Wilayah. Which of the two is superior, Mohammed (s.a.w.a.) or Sulaiman (a.s.)?’ I said, ‘It is Mohammed (s.a.w.a.)’.

Then he (a.s.) said: ‘Aasif Bin Barkhiya was able to carry the throne of Bilquees from Persian in the blink of an eye, and with him was knowledge of part of the Book, and can I not do that, while with me is knowledge of one hundred and twenty-four Books?’

Allah, the Almighty revealed fifteen Books unto Shees Bin Adamas, and thirty Books upon the Prophet Idris (a.s.), and twenty Books unto Nuh (a.s.), and twenty Books unto Ibrahim (a.s.), and the Torah, and the Injeel unto Isaas, and the Psalms unto Dawood (a.s.), and the Furqan to Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.).

I said, ‘You speak the truth, O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)! That is how the (real) Imam happens to be’. He (a.s.) said: ‘The doubter in our matters, and our knowledge, is like the one suspicious regarding our recognition and our rights Allah, the Almighty has Imposed in His Book in many places, and explained in it what obligates the deeds with, and it is not yet uncovered’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 42, Chp 117, Trad 1 ↩