Hadith 241

ed that Al-Husayn-asws said at the time of washing: ‘Are you-asws not seeing the lightness of Amir Al-Momineen-asws? ’ Al-Hassan-asws said: ‘O Abu Abdullah-asws! There are people with us-asws who are assisting us-asws’. When we-asws had fulfilled Al-Isha Salat the last, the front part of the bier had risen, and we-asws did not cease to follow it until we-asws arrived to Al-Ghary. We-asws to a grave, based upon what Amir Al-Momineen-asws had described, and we-asws were hearing flutter of a lot of wings, and uproar and shouting. We-asws placed down the bier and prayed Salat upon Amir Al-Momineen-asws like what he-asws had described to us-asws, and we-asws descended into his-asws grave and laid him-asws down in his-asws tomb, and we-asws set the bricks upon him-asws’’. [51]
And in the Hadeeth from Al-Sadiq-asws: ‘They (Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws) took away the bricks from the place of his-asws head, after having laid the bricks upon him-asws, and there wasn’t anything in the grave. Then a caller called out about Amir Al-Momineen-asws: ‘He-asws was a righteous servant, so Allah-azwj Joined him-asws with His-azwj Prophet-saww, and like that He-azwj Deals with the successors-as after the Prophets-as, to the extent that even if a Prophet-saww had died in the east and his-as successor-as died in the west, the Prophet-saww would be joined with the successor-as’’. [52]
And in a Hadeeth from Umm Kulsoom-asws daughter-asws of Ali-asws, ‘The grave split up from a mausoleum, and there it was with a tablet. There was written upon it in Assyrian: “In the Name of Allah-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful! This is the grave Noah-as dug for Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws before the flood by seven hundred years”’. The grave split asunder and we do not know, and Ibn Muskan asked Al-Sadiq-asws about the one standing leaning in the road of Al-Ghary. He-asws said: ‘Yes, when they came with the bier of Amir Al-Momineen-asws, with heads bowed down in sorrow and grief upon Amir Al-Momineen-asws’’. [53]
And Al-Ghazali said, ‘The people went until Ali-asws was buried at Al-Najaf, and they were carrying him-asws upon the camel. It travelled until it ended up to the place of his-asws grave, and it knelt. They struggled to get it up, but it did not get up, so they buried him-asws in it’’. [54]