MIRACLE 83 – MIRACLE LIKE JANABE KHIZR (A.S.)

It is narrated in Tafseer of Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.),

‘Jadd Bin Qays, was second to Abdullah Bin Abay in hypocrisy, just as Imam Ali (a.s.) was a second to Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) in perfection, beauty, and majesty.

Jadd was alone with Abdullah Bin Abayy, when Abdullah Bin Abayy, told him, ‘Mohammed (s.a.w.a.) is an expert with the sorcery, and Imam Ali (a.s.) is not like him, so you, should send an invitation to Ali, after digging up the foundation of the wall of your orchard, and place some men behind the wall, and put some wooden support at the wall, and they should push it upon Imam Ali (a.s.) and those with him, in order to kill them under it’.

As planned, he got Imam Ali (a.s.) to sit by the wall. He (a.s.) placed his left hand and pushed it, and the meal was in front of them. Imam Ali (a.s.) said: ‘Eat in the Name of Allah’, and he (a.s.) went on to eat along with them until they had eaten and were free, he (a.s.) was holding the wall with his left hand – and the wall was of thirty cubits in length, and fifteen cubits tall, and two cubits wide.

The companions of Imam Ali (a.s.) went on eating and they were saying, ‘O brother of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.)! You are struggling with this and eating. You will get tired in withholding this wall from us’.

Imam Ali (a.s.) said: ‘I am not finding the weight upon my left hand for it except as less than what I find from the weight of this morsel in my right hand’.

Jadd Bin Qays fled, and he feared that Imam Ali (a.s.) and his companions would have died and Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) would be seeking him to kill him as a result, and he hid with Abdullah Bin Abayy.

It reached them that Imam Ali (a.s.) had withheld the wall with his left hand and he (a.s.) was eating with his right, and his companions were by the wall and they had not died.

When the people were free, Imam Ali (a.s.) inclined upon the wall with his left hand and uprighted it, and straightened it, and corrected its cracks, and gathered its splits (parts), and he (a.s.) and the people went out. When Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) saw him, he said: ‘O Abul Hasan! Your action today is comparable to my brother Khizr, when he (a.s.) straightened the wall, and Allah, the Almighty did not ease that for him except by his supplication through our channel, the purified household’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 42, Chp 116, Trad 9 ↩