Hadith 9

ding Siffeen, and we passed by Karbala. He-asws said: ‘This is a place of Al-Husayn-asws and his-asws companions’. Then we travelled until we ended up to a Monk in his Monastery, and the people were being cut from the thirst, and they complained to Ali-asws of that, and it was so that he-asws had taken with them such a road from the wilderness, there was not water in it, and neglected the Euphrates. We went closer to the Monk. He-asws notified him with it and he came overlooking to him-asws. He-asws said: ‘Is there any water near your Monastery? ’ He said, ‘No’. He-asws turned the face of his-asws mule and descended in a place wherein was sand, and he-asws instructed the people that they dig in the sand. They dug and hit a white rock under it. Three hundred got together, but they could not move it. He-asws said: ‘Move aside, for I-asws am for it! ’ Then he-asws inserted his-asws right hand under the rock and uprooted it from its place to the extent that the people saw it upon his-asws palm, and he-asws placed it in a corner. There, beneath it, was a spring of water thinner than the egg-white, and sweeter than the Euphrates. The people drank and were quenched, and they took provisions. Then he-asws returned the rock to its place and made the sand to be just as it had been. And the Monk came. He greeted and said, ‘My father had informed me from his grandfather, and he was from the disciples of Isa-as, that under this sand there is a spring of water, and no one can extract it except a Prophet-as or a successor-as of a Prophet-as’. And he said to Ali-asws, ‘Will you give permission to me-asws to accompany you-asws in your-asws direction? ’ He-asws said: ‘Stick to me-asws’, and supplicated for him. When it was ‘Laylat Al-Hareer’, the Monk was killed. He-asws buried him with his-asws own hands and said: ‘It is as if I-asws am looking at him and to his house in the Paradise, and his rank which Allah-azwj has Honoured him with it’’. [49]