MIRACLE 65 – MUAWIYA’S PLAN TO KILL AMEERUL MOMINEEN (AS)

Al-Asbagh said, ‘We prayed the morning Salat with Ameerul Momineen (a.s.), just then a man came to us who seemed to be a traveller. Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) asked him: ‘From where?’ He said, ‘From Syria’.

He (a.s.) said: ‘What made you come?’ He said, ‘There is a need for me’.

He (a.s.) said: ‘Will you inform me or else I can inform you with your story’. He said, ‘Inform me with it, O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)!’

Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) said: ‘Muawiya called out on such and such day, in such and such month, and in such and such year, ‘One who kills Imam Ali (a.s.), for him would be ten thousand dinars!’ So and so leapt up and said, ‘I will’. When he left from his house he regretted and said, ‘Should I travel to the son of the uncle of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and father of his (grand) children and kill him (a.s.)?’

Then his caller called out on the second day: ‘One who kills Imam Ali (a.s.), for him would be twenty thousand Dinars!’ So, another one leapt up and said, ‘I will’. Then he regretted and quit. Then his caller called out on the third day, ‘One who kills Imam Ali (a.s.), for him would be thirty thousand Dinars!’ So, you and a man from Himeyr leapt up.

He said, ‘You speak the truth’. He (a.s.) said: ‘What did you see going to what you had been ordered with, of what was that?’ He said, ‘But, I shall leave’. He (a.s.) said: ‘O Qanbar! Sort out his riding animal for him and prepare his provisions for him and give him his expense money’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 114, Trad 38 ↩