MIRACLE 36 – EMERGING OF CAMELS FROM THE MOUNTAINS

Allamah Majlisi narrates from his chain of narrators that Ameerul Momineen, Hazrat Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.) said,

‘When a Rabbi from the Jewish Rabbis’ arrived to Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah! My people have sent me to you concerning the pact that our Prophet, Prophet Musa (a.s.) made with us.: He had said, ‘A Prophet would be sent after me, his name would be ‘Ahmad’, and he would be an Arab. So, go to him and ask him to bring out seven camel with red skin and black eyes for you from a mountain over there.

If he does brings them out for you, then submit to him and believe in him and follow the Noor which has descended with him, a successor. He is Chief of the Prophets and his successor is Chief of the successors, and he is at the status of Haroun to Musa’.

At that, Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) replied to them: ‘Allah, the Almighty is the Greatest! Arise with us, O brother Jew!’ The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) went out and the Muslims were around him, to the outskirts of Medina, and he came to a mountain. He spread his cloak and prayed two units of prayers and spoke with a speech in a low voice, and suddenly, the mountain cracked a huge crevice and split asunder, and the people heard the grunting of the camels.

The Jew said, ‘I hereby testify that there is no god except Allah and you are a Messenger of Allah and that the entirety of what you have come with is true and just. O Messenger of Allah! Give me respite that I go back to my people and come with them. Let them fulfil their promises to you and believe in you’.

The Rabbi went to his people and informed them with that. They all prepared for the travel to Medina. When they entered, they found it to be dark due to the passing away of the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.), and the revelation from the sky had been terminated, and Abu Bakr was sitting at his place.

They entered to see him and said, ‘Are you the caliph of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.)?’ He said, ‘Yes’. They said, ‘Fulfil the promise that Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) made to us’. He said, ‘And what did he promise you all?’ They said, ‘You would be knowing of our promise if you were a true caliph, and if you don’t know, then you are not his caliph, so how come you are sitting in the seat of your Prophet without any right and not being worthy of it?’

He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Bakr stood up and sat down, and was confused from this matter, and he did not know what he should do. There was a man from the Muslims present there, who said, ‘Follow me until I direct you to the (true) caliph of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.)!

He (the narrator) said, ‘They went out from the presence of Abu Bakr and the followed the man until they reachedthe house of Janabe Zahra (s.a.), and knocked on the door. The door was open and Imam Ali (a.s.) had stepped out, and he (a.s.) was in severe grief upon Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.).

When he (a.s.) saw them he (a.s.) said: ‘O you Jews! Are you wanting your promise from Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.)?’ They said, ‘Yes’. He (a.s.) went out with them and they came to the outskirts of Medina, to the mountain at which Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) had prayed Salat. When he (a.s.) saw its place, he breathed a sigh and said: ‘By my father and my mother for the one who was at this mountain!’

Then he (a.s.) prayed two units of Salat, and again, suddenly the mountain split, and the camels came out from it, and they were seven camels.

When they saw that, they said with one voice, ‘we testify that there is no god except Allah and that Mohammed (s.a.w.a.) is Messenger of Allah and you are the successor after him (s.a.w.a.), and that whatever he (s.a.w.a) had come with from the side of Allah, is the truth, and you are his (s.a.w.a.) rightful successor and inheritor of his (s.a.w.a.) knowledge. So, may Allah recompense him (s.a.w.a.) goodly about Al-Islam!’ Then they returned to their city as Muslim, and believers in One Allah’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 112, Trad 24 ↩