Hadith 12

‘We were coming back from Siffeen with Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws and the army was thirsty and there did not happen to be any water in that land. They complained of that to the inheritor of the knowledge of the Prophet-hood. He-asws went on to go around in that land until he-asws saw the wilderness and he-asws saw a large rock. He-asws stopped at it and said: ‘The greetings be unto you, O you rock! ’ It said, ‘The greetings be unto you-asws, O inheritor of knowledge of the Prophet-hood’. He-asws said to it: ‘Where is the water? ’ It said, ‘Beneath me, O successor-asws of Muhammad-saww’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws informed the people of what the rock had said to him-asws. One hundred persons engaged to (move) it, but they were frustrated in moving it. During that, he-asws said: ‘To you all, away from it! ’ Then he-asws paused at it and moved his-asws lips and pushed it away by his-asws hands and uprooted in the blink of an eye, and there under it was water sweeter than honey, and colder than ice. The Muslims were quenched and they quenched their horses, and frequented from the water. Then he-asws came back to the rock and said to it, ‘Return to your place! ’
Ibn Abbas said, ‘It went on to roll upon the surface of the earth like the ball in the field until it layered upon the spring. Then they returned and departed from it’’. [55]
(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – From Abu Hashim Al Ja’fari, from his father, ‘From Al-Sadiq-asws having said: ‘When Ali-asws was free from Siffeen, he-asws paused at the banks of the Euphrates and said: ‘O you, valley! Who am I-asws? ! ’ Its waves were turbulent and split up, and the people were looking, and they heard a voice from the Euphrates: ‘I testify that there is no god except Allah-azwj, and I testify that Muhammad-saww is Rasool-Allah-saww, and that Ali-asws, Amir Al-Momineen-asws is Divine Authority of Allah-azwj upon His-azwj creatures’’. [56]
(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – From Abdullah Bin Al Saksaky, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws, from his-asws father-asws: ‘When Ali-asws arrived from Siffeen, he-asws paused at the banks of the Euphrates, then he-asws removed an arrow from his-asws quiver, then brought out a yellow stick from it and struck the Euphrates with it and said: ‘Gush forth! ’ there gushed out from i