Learned and pious gentleman, a true fan of Ahl ul-Bayt (‘a), the Late Hajj Shaykh Muhammad Shafi Mohsini Jammi, who passed away a couple of months ago narrated:

In the Kankan province, there was a beggar, who roamed in localities reciting poems in praise of Ahl ul-Bayt ('a) and people gave him cash and kind.

One day he came to the door of a Sunni Nasibi Qadi and recited poems for a long time. The Qadi was infuriated; he opened the door and said: How long will you go on reciting the praises of Ali? I will not give you anything, but I am prepared to help you if you praise Umar.

The beggar said: If you give me something in the name of Umar, it would be worse than snake poison. I will not take it. The Qadi became extremely furious and started beating up the beggar. The Qadi's wife intervened and beseeched him to leave the beggar alone, lest he dies.

She persuaded him to go inside and as much as possible made amends with the beggar so that it may not create communal riots. After the Qadi went inside, the wife heard a terrible scream from him. When she came in, she saw that he has had a paralysis attack and also become dumb. She informed his relatives and they came to inquire about him. All that was understood from his gestures was as follows: When I went to sleep, I was taken to the seventh heaven, where a majestic gentleman slapped me and threw me down.

People admitted him to a hospital in Bahrain, where he remained under treatment for around two months, but it was of no use. Then they took him to Kuwait.

The Late Hajj says: By chance, they brought him by the ship, on which I was traveling and we reached Kuwait together. He requested me to pray in his favor. I explained to him that it was possible for him to be cured only through the mediation of the personality that has slapped him, but that unfortunate man was unmoved; till last year I saw him in Bahrain in the same condition and he was begging on the roads in absolute penury.

Similar to this story is the incident of Abu Abdullah Muhaddith, which in brief is as follows:

On page 140 of Madinat ul-Maajiz, it is narrated from Shaykh Mufid (r.a.) that I went to Ja'far Daqqaq and purchased four books about interpretation of dreams.

As I was leaving, he said: Please wait, I want to narrate an incident, which passed on my friend, and which is a point in favor of your sect. I had a friend who studied with me under a person in BAbu ‘l-Basra locality who narrated traditions. He was famous as Abu Abdullah Muhaddith. We studied under him for a long time and noted down traditions. Whenever he dictated a tradition in excellence of Ahl ul-Bay t ('a), he made some ridiculing remarks as well.

One day he narrated a tradition on the excellence of Lady Fatima Zahra ('a), after which he said: All this is of no use to us, because Ali killed Muslims! He also passed disparaging remarks about Lady Fatima Zahra ('a).

I said to my friend: It is not right to learn anything from this fell ow, because he is irreligious and always commits audacities against Ali and Fatima, which cannot be a religion of a Muslim. My friend testified to my statement and said: It would be better for us to take someone else as a tutor.

At night, I dreamt that I was going to the Great Mosque, and Abu Abdullah Muhaddith was also present there. Amir ul-Mu’minin ('a) arrived mounted on an unsaddled mule. I said: Perhaps he would cut off his head. He came forward and hit his right eye with a cane and remarked: O accursed one, why do you abuse me and Fatima? The Muhaddith cupped his eye and exclaimed: You have blinded me!

When I woke up, I decided to meet my friend and inform him about the dream. Suddenly I saw him coming with an anxious face. He asked: Do you know what happened? Tell me, I said. He said: I had a dream last night about the Muhaddith; and he narrated an almost identical dream. I said: I also had the same dream and was coming to inform you about it. Come let us take the Qur’an and go to Muhaddith and swear to him that we had such a dream and we have not hatched any conspiracy, then explain to him that he must recant his corrupted beliefs.

Thus, we went to his place, but his door was closed. A maid told us that it was not possible to meet him at that time. We knocked again, and again were given the same response. After that she said: The Shaykh is holding his eye and wailing since last night. He is repeating that Ali Ibn Abi Talib has blinded me in one eye. He is extremely distressed by the pain.

We said: We came regarding this only. So she opened the door and we went inside. We saw him screaming in a horrible manner and saying: What do I have to do with Ali Ibn Abi Talib, that he hit me with his cane and blinded me?

Ja'far says: He narrated all that I had seen in the dream. We asked him to recant his wrong beliefs and not to utter any insult about Ali ('a). He said: May Allah not give you a good reward, even if Ali blinds my other eye, I would not give him precedence over Abu Bakr and Umar. We left him and again visited on the third day to find that he was blind in the other eye as well, but he did not recant his faith. After a week, when we sought information about him, we came to know that he was dead and his son has apostasied due to the anger of Ali Ibn Abi Talib and moved to Rome.