MIRACLE 47 – SEVENTY MEN COULD NOT LIFT THE DOOR
From the miracles of Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) it is uprooting the door of Khyber. It is reported from Jabir al-Ansari,
‘The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) handed the flag to Imam Ali (a.s.) during the day of Khyber, after having supplicated for him (a.s.). He (a.s.) was quick in the going, and his companions said to him (a.s.), ‘Slow down until we end up to the fortress!’ He (a.s.) pulled its door and uprooted it from the ground. Then seventy men from us gathered, and they struggled to return the door’’.1
It is also narrated concerning the door of the fort,
‘When Imam Ali (a.s.) was near the fortress, they came to shoot at him (a.s.) with the arrows and stones. He (a.s.) attacked until he was close from the door. He uprooted the and threw it behind his back to forty cubits. Forty men were tried to carry it, but they could not endure it’’.2
It is reported in another tradition from Jabir,
‘Imam Ali (a.s.) carried the door on the day of Khyber until the Muslims ascended upon it and they conquered it, and they tried after that, but forty men could not carry it’’.3
And it is reported by Abu Al-Hassan Al-Warraq, well-known as Ghulam Al-Misry, from Ibn Jareer Al-Tabari, and in a report of a group – ‘(It was) fifty men’’.
And in a report of Ahmad Bin Hanbal – ‘(It was) ‘Seventy men’’.4