MIRACLE 38 – TREMORS IN MEDINA

It is narrated from Hasan bin Abdul Raheem al-Tamaar,

‘I left from a gathering of one of the jurists and I passed by Janabe Salman (r.a.), who was behaving oddly. He said to me, ‘Where are you coming from?’ I said, ‘From a gathering of so and so’. He said to me, ‘What is that which flowed during it?’ I said, ‘Something from the merits of Ameerul Momineen, Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.)’.

He said, ‘By Allah, I shall narrated to you with his merit a Qureyshi has narrated with from a Qureyshi’ – until it reached six persons from them, then said, ‘The graves of Al-Baqi trembled in the era of Umar Bin Al-Khattab. The people of Medina clamoured from that. Umar and companions of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) went out to supplicate to settle the tremors. But these did not cease to increase until that reached the walls of Medina, and its inhabitants decided to flee from it.

During that Umar said, ‘Call Abu Al-Hasan, Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.)!’ He (a.s.) came. Umar said, ‘O Abul Hasan! Don’t you see the graves of Al-Baqi and their shaking and that it has reached to the walls of Medina, and its inhabitants are leaving it?’

Imam Ali (a.s.) said: ‘Call one hundred men from the companions of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) who participated in Badr!’ He (a.s.) choose ten from the hundred and made them to be behind him (a.s.), and made the ninety to be behind them, and nobody else remained in Medina besides them.

Then he (a.s.) called Janabe Abu Zar (a.r.), Janabe Salman (r.a.), Janabe Miqdad (r.a.) and Janabe Ammar (r.a.). He (a.s.) said to them: ‘Come with me to the to the middle of Al-Baqi. And the people were staring at him (a.s.). He (a.s.) struck the ground with his leg, then said: ‘What is the matter with you?’ – thrice. It settled down.

He (a.s.) said: ‘Allah, the Almighty spoke the truth and His Messenger (s.a.w.a.) spoke the truth! He (s.a.w.a.) had informed me with this news, and this day, and this time, and the gathering of the people to it. Allah, the Almighty Mighty and Majestic is saying in His Book: When the earth is shaken with its earthquake [99:1] And the earth throws out its burdens [99:2] And the human beings says, ‘What is the matter with it?’ [99:3].

But had it been that one, it would have said what the matter is with it, and it would have brought to me, its burdens’. Then he (a.s.) left, and the people left with him (a.s.), and the tremors had settled’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 112, Trad 27 ↩