MIRACLE 104 – REPAYING DEBTS FROM AMEERUL MOMINEEN (AS)

It is narrated from Ibrahim Bin Mihran,

‘There was a man at Kufa with the Kuniyat Abu Ja’far, and he was a devout man. And the ones from the Alawites who came to him seeking something from him, he would give it, and he would say to his slave, ‘Write, ‘this is what Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.) has taken’. And he remained upon that for a time.

Then the times changed for him and he was impoverished. One day he looked at his accounting. So, all what he found a name of a tribe upon it, from its debt, he went on to send a messenger to him, to seek it, and the one who had died, he would strike off his name. While he was seated at the door of his house when a man passed by him. He said, ‘What did Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.) do with your wealth?’

He was saddened at that with intense sadness and entered his house. When it was night and he slept, he saw the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) in his dream along with Imam Hasan (a.s.) and Imam Husain (a.s.), who were walking in front of him (s.a.w.a.). The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) said to them: ‘What happened to your father?’ Imam Ali (a.s.) answered from behind him (s.a.w.a.): ‘I am here, O Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.)!

He (s.a.w.a.) said to him (a.s.): ‘Why did you not hand over to this man his right?’ Imam Ali (a.s.) said: ‘O Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.)! This is his right, I have come with it’. The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) said to him (a.s.): ‘Hand it over to him’. He gave him a bag of white wool. He (a.s.) said: ‘This is your right, so take it. You did not prevent the ones from my children who came to you seeking anything, so there will be no poverty upon you after this’.

The man said, ‘I woke up and the bag was actually in my hand. I called out to my wife and said to her, ‘Here!’ I gave her the bag, and in there were a thousand Dinars. She said to me, ‘Fear Allah, and do not let your poverty carry you upon taking what is not your right, and if you have deceived any of the traders of his wealth, then return it to him’.

So, I narrated to her with the dream. She said, ‘If you are truthful, then show me the account of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.)’. I presented the ledger and opened it but could not find anything in it from the writing, by the power of Allah, the Almighty, the Exalted’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 42, Chp 115, Trad 8 ↩