Hadith 88

hen he entered his tent, he found his wife seated upon a state of her well-being. He said to her, ‘How did Allah-azwj Revive you? ’ She said, ‘By Allah-azwj The Angel of death came to me and captured my soul, and he thought of ascending with it. Then I was with a man with such and such description’ – and she went on to count his-asws descriptions, and her husband kept saying, ‘Yes, you speak the truth. This is a description of my chief and my Master-asws Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws’. She said, ‘When the Angel of death saw him-asws coming, he devoted to his-asws feet kissing them and saying, ‘The greetings be unto you-asws, O Divine Authority of Allah-azwj in His-azwj earth! The greetings be unto you-asws, O Zayn Al-Abideen-asws’. He-asws responded the greeting to him and said to him: ‘O angel of death! Return the soul of this woman to her body, for she was aiming to us-asws, and I-asws have already asked my-asws Lord to Cause her to live for another thirty years and Cause her to live good life due to her arrival to us-asws for visiting us-asws’. The Angel said, ‘I hear, and I obey, O friend of Allah-azwj! ’ Then he returned my soul to my body, and I was looking at the Angel of death, and he was kissing his-asws hand and went away from me’. The man held a hand of his wife and entered her to see him-asws, and he-asws was in between his-asws companions. She devoted to his-asws knees kissing them and she was saying, ‘By Allah‑azwj! This is my chief and my master-asws, and this is the one-asws who Allah-azwj has Revived me by the blessings of his-asws supplication! ’
He said, ‘The woman did not cease to be with her husband being a neighbour with the Imam‑asws for the remainder of her life until they both died. May Allah-azwj have Mercy on them’’. [110]
And it is reported by Al-Bursy in (the book) ‘Mashariq Al Anwar’ –
‘A man said to Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws, ‘By what are you-asws meriting us over our enemies, and among them is one who is better than us? ’ The Imam-asws said to him: ‘Would you like to see your merit over them? ’ He said, ‘Yes’. He-asws wiped his-asws hand upon his face and said: ‘Look! ’ He looked. He trembled and said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! Return me to what I had been, for I cannot see in the Masjid except bears, and monkeys, and dogs! ’ He-asws wiped his-asws hand upon his face, and he returned to his (former) state’’. [111]