Hadith 315

Al Bursy in (the book) ‘Al Mashariq’, from Ibn Nubatah, ‘One day Amir Al-Momineen-asws was seated in Najaf, Al-Kufa. He-asws said to the ones around him-asws: ‘Who can see what I-asws am seeing? ’ They said, ‘And what do you-asws see, O Eye of Allah-azwj, the beholder among His-azwj servants? ’ He-asws said: ‘I-asws a camel carrying a dead body, and a man is ushering it, and a man is guiding it, and it shall be coming to you after three (days)’. When it was the third day, the camel arrived, and the dead body was tied upon it, and there were two men with it. They greeted unto the congregation. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said to them after having welcomed them: ‘Who are you? And where are you coming from? And who is this dead body? And what is that you have arrived for? ’
They said, ‘We are from Al-Yemen, and as for the deceased, he is our father, and he had bequeathed to us during death. He said, ‘When you have washed me, and enshrouded me, and prayed Salat upon me, then carry me upon this camel of mine to Al-Iraq and bury me over there at Najaf, Al-Kufa’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said to them: ‘Did you ask him, what that was for? ’ They said, ‘Yes, we had asked him. He had said, ‘To be buried over there by such a man, if he were to intercede on the Day of Qiyamah for (all) the people of the pausing, he would be interceded for’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws stood up and said: ‘He spoke the truth. By Allah-azwj! I-asws am that man! ’’[158]