MIRACLE 100 – DREAM OF AN ABBASI WOMAN

The below incident is narrated in the book, al-Kharaij wa al-Jaraih,

‘There was a dispute between the Abbasides and the students at Kufa to the extent that seventeen Abbaside men were killed, and the caliph Al-Qadir was angered, and the king Sharif Al-Dowla Abu Ali rebelled until he travelled to Kufa and eradicated the students at it, and he did such and such with them and their women and their daughters. And he wrote this news from Baghdad upon birds (courier pigeons) and made them know what Al-Qadir had said. They panicked and they linked with the clan of Khafaja.

An Abbaside woman saw in her dream as if a rider upon a grey horse descended from the sky and there was a spear in his hand’. She asked about it, and it was said to her, ‘This is Ameerul Momineen, Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.) intending to kill the ones who are determined upon killing the students’.

She informed the people and her dream became widespread in the city, and the bird came down with a letter from Baghdad that the king Sharaf Al-Dowlah had spent the night determined upon the travelling to Kufa. When it was midnight, he died suddenly and the soldiers dispersed, and Al-Qadir panicked’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 42, Chp 115, Trad 1 ↩