MIRACLE 112– GLAD-TIDINGS FROM HOLY PROPHET (S.A.W.A.)

It is narrated by Ibn Al Khazeyb,

‘I was a scribe (kaatib) for the mother of Mutwakkil. While I was in the registry, there was a young servant who had come out from her presence and with him was a pouch having a thousand Dinars in it. He said, ‘The chieftess is saying to you, ‘Distribute these among the deserving people for it is from the good of my wealth and write down the names of those you distribute it amongst, so that when something more comes to me, I can give to them.

He said, ‘I went to my house and gathered my companions and asked them about the deserving ones. They named some people. I distributed three hundred Dinars among them, and the remainder remained in my hands up to midnight, and there was a knock on the door. I asked him, ‘Who is it?’ He said, ‘So and so Alawite’, and he was my neighbour. I permitted for him, so he entered.

I said to him, ‘What is your concern?’ He said, ‘I am hungry’. So, I gave him a Dinar from that. I entered to see my wife. She said, ‘What are you doing at this time of the night?’ I said, ‘A person knocked on the door to me who was from the children of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.), and there did not happen to be anything for me what I could feed him, so I gave him a Dinar. He took it and thanked me and left’.

My wife went out and she was crying and saying, ‘Are you not ashamed that the like of this man come to you and you onlygave him one Dinar, and you had known his being deserving of being given the whole of it?’

Her speech fell in my heart and I arose to go behind him and gave him the bag. He took it and left. When I returned to the house, I regretted and said, ‘Now the news will arrive to Mutawakkil and he abhors the Alawites, so he will kill me’.

My wife said to me, ‘Do not fear and rely upon Allah and upon their grandfather (s.a.w.a.)’. While we were talking, there was a knock on the door. They were the servants with torches in their hands saying, the chieftess was calling me. I stood up scared and every time I walked a little, I retraced from the messengers.

I paused near a curtain of the chieftess and I heard her saying, ‘O Ahmad! May Allah recompense you goodly and recompense your wife. I was just asleep and Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) came to me in the dream and he (s.a.w.a.) said: ‘May Allah recompense you goodly and recompense the wife of Ibn Al-Khazeyb goodly’. So, what is the meaning of this?’

I narrated the narration to her, and she cried. She brought out dinars and a bag, and she said, ‘This is for the Alawite, and this is for your wife, and this is for you’. And that equated to one hundred thousand Dirhams. I took the wealth and went on my way to the house of the Alawite. I knocked the door. He said from inside the house, ‘Give what is with you, O Ahmad!’ And he came out, and he was weeping.

I asked him about his weeping. He said, ‘When I entered my house, my wife said to me, ‘What is this which is with you?’ I let her know. She said to me, ‘Arise with us until we pray Salat and supplicate for the chieftess, and for Ahmad and his wife’. So, we prayed Salat and supplicated. Then I slept. I saw Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) in the dream and he (s.a.w.a.) said: ‘You have been thanked upon what they have done with you. Now, they will be coming to you with something. Accept it from them!’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 42, Chp 115, Trad 12 ↩