Hadith 155

predatory wild animals. The old man said, ‘O Prophet-saww of Allah-azwj! Send someone with me who can call my people to, and I shall return him to you safely’. The Prophet-saww said: ‘Which one of you will stand with him and deliver to the Jinn on my-saww behalf, and the Paradise would be for him? ’ But no one stood up. He-saww said it secondly and thirdly. Ali-asws said: ‘I-asws, O Rasool-Allah-saww! ’ The Prophet-saww turned to the old man and said, ‘Meet me to Al-Harrah during this night, I-saww shall send a man with you who will determine my-saww judgment and speak with my-saww tongue and deliver to the Jinn on my-saww behalf’. He (Salman–ra) said, ‘The old man disappeared. Then he came during the night and he was upon a camel like the sheep, and with him was another camel like the raised horse. The Prophet-saww carried Ali-asws upon it and carried me–ra behind him-asws and blindfolded myra eyes and said: ‘Do not open your–ra eyes until you–ra hear Ali-asws calling out, and do not let what you hear scare you and you–ra will be safe’. The camel travelled, pushing in its travel like the pushing of the ostrich, and Ali-asws was reciting the Quran. We travelled our night until when the dawn emerged, Ali-asws proclaimed Azaan and knelt the camel and said: ‘Descend, O Salman–ra! ’ I–ra untied my–ra eyes and descended, and there was a vast land. He-asws established the Salat and prayed leading us and Ira did not cease to hear the hiss until Ali-asws performed Salam. I–ra turned and there was a large creature, and Ali-asws stood up glorifying his-asws Lord-azwj until the sun emerged. Then he-asws stood to address and preached to them. The renegades from them objected to him-asws. Ali-asws came back and said: ‘Is it with the truth you are belying, and hindering from the Quran, and rejecting the Verses of Allah-azwj? ’
Then he-asws raised his-asws eyes towards the sky and said: ‘O Allah-azwj! By the mighty Phrase, and the beautiful Name, and the great determinations, and the Living, the Eternal, and Reviver of the dead, and Causer of death to the living, and Lord-azwj of the earth and the sky! O guards of the Jinn and observers of Satans–la, and servants of Allah-azwj, the ‘Sharhaleen’, and the ones with clean souls! Come down with the ember which does not extinguish, and the piercing meteorites, and the incinerating flames, and the killer brass! By Kaf Ha Ya Ayn Suad [19: 1], and the ‘Al Tawaseen’ (Chapters 26, 27 & 28), and ‘Al Hawameem’ (Chapters 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 & 46), and