MIRACLE 11 – IMAM ALI (AS) AND LION

Ibn Wahban and Al Fattak –

‘We went through the jungle and there was a lion crouching in the path and its cubs were behind it, so I turned around with my animal to return. He (a.s.) said: ‘To where are you heading, O Juweyria Bin Mus’har! But rather it is a beast of Allah, the Almighty’.

Then he (a.s.) said: ‘There is none from an animal except He Seizes it by its forelock. [11:56] and there, the lion went near him (a.s.) wagging with its tail and it was saying, ‘The greeting be unto you, O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.), and Mercy of Allah, the Almighty and His Blessings, O son of the uncle of Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.).

He (a.s.) said: ‘And upon you be the greetings, O Abu Al-Haris! What is your glorification (of Allah, the Almighty)?’ It said, ‘I tend to say, ‘Glorious is the one who clothed me with the awe and cast the fear of me into the hearts of His servants’.

And I saw a lion coming towards him rumbling, and it wiped the ground with its head. He (a.s.) spoke to it with something. He (a.s.) was asked about it. He (a.s.) said: ‘It complained of the rope and supplicated for me and said, ‘May Allah, the Almighty not cause anyone from us upon your friends’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 111, Trad 12 ↩