Miracle 4: The Hedgehog at Mount al-Safa in Mecca

Hazrat Imam Musa Kazim (a.s.) said: ‘Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) was performing Sa’ee upon Al-Safa at Mecca, and there he (a.s.) saw a hedgehog creeping upon the surface of the earth. It fell facing Ameerul Momineen (a.s.).

He (a.s.) said: ‘The greetings be unto you, O hedgehog!’ The hedgehog said, ‘And upon you be the greetings, and Mercy of Allah, the Almighty and His Blessings, O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)!’

Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) said: ‘O you hedgehog! What are you doing in this place?’ It said, ‘O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)! I have been in this place since such and such year. I glorify Allah, the Almighty and extol His Holiness, and I praise Him and worship Him as is the right of worshipping Him’.

Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) said: ‘O hedgehog! It is (Al) Safa, pure (bare), there is neither any food in it nor any drink. So, from where is the food and the drink (coming) to you?

The hedgehog replied and it said, ‘By your kinship from Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.), O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)! Every time I come to supplicate to Allah, the Almighty for your Shias and the ones who love you, I get satiated, and when I am thirsty, I supplicate to Allah, the Almighty against your haters and ones derogating you, I get quenched.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 111, Trad 6 ↩