A senior Sayyid scholar, who did not disclose his name, writes:

I saw my father in dream and asked him some questions, which he replied as follows:

1- The souls, which are involved in punishment in Purgatory (Barzakh); what kind of hardships do they suffer?

Reply: Since you are in the world, I will explain lo you by way of an example. It is like you enter a mountain pass and all around there are high mountains, which you are incapable of scaling; in those circumstances, a ferocious wolf starts chasing you and there is no way to escape.

Agha Sibt has narrated that the Late Sayyid Ibrahim Shustari, who was a congregation leader of Ahwaz, was an extremely pious man. After marriage, he became a victim of extreme poverty and was even unable to bear the expenses of his family. At last he went to Najaf al-Ashraf and lodged with a student of Shustar in a Madressa.

Practical scholar, Aga Hajj Sayyid Muhammad Ali Sabtus narrated:

In the suburbs of Baghdad, a Shaykh and a rich man of the community arranged the marriage of his son with a girl among his relatives and the practice prevalent among them was that the wedding and consummation took place the same evening.

Every year, on the day of Arbaeen, Late Hajj Muhammad Al-Ridha Baqqal, a resident of Kucha Astana cooked and distributed forty Mann (120 kilos) rice among the people. The year he performed the Ziyarat of Karbala, he told his son to get the same quantity cooked on Arbaccn day and distribute it.

On the night after Arbaeen, Muhammad Al-Ridha saw Imam Husayn (‘a) in dream. He said: Muhammad Al-Ridha, since you have come to Karbala this year you have reduced the food by half. When he woke up, he was unable to comprehend the matter fully.

Sayyid Moa zza m Aga Musawi, may his blessings endure, has also narrated the following story, which he directly heard from the main characters and it is mentioned in History of Samarrah, Vol. 2, Pg. 193.

Its gist is that Hajj Mirza Sayyid Baqir Khan Tehrani alias Hajj Saidus Sultan left his home in 1323 A.H. lunar with the intention of performing the Ziyarats of the Imams in Iraq.

Abd ul-Fadhl Walmali Aga Sayyid Muhammad Hadi Modarris Musawi, who lived for a long time in Samarrah and was the prayer leader in the holy sanctuary of the two Imams [Imam Ali Naqi ("a) and Ima m Hasan Askari ('a)], and who returned from there in the last stage of the expulsion of Iranians, has narrated some very strange stories about the miracle cures of the two Imams of Askar. We present two of these incidents to our readers:

Shaykh Abd ul-Nabi Ansari Darabi, a graduate of Islamic university of Qom is the owner of extraordinary qualities as is obvious from an incident, which he himself has narrated:

For a period of one year, I was involved in various ailments including headache and general weakness. I consulted three doctors in Shiraz, five in Qom and took excessive medications including injections, but all this only gave me momentary relief and weakness returned.

He also narrated that on 23rd night of Ramadhan, I was engrossed in night vigil and rituals of the Night of Power on the terrace. Suddenly I felt exhausted and loss self-consciousness. In that condition I felt that the whole upper layer of the atmosphere was crowed and some voices could be heard. I asked one of the voices, which was familiar and closer to me: Who are you? It replied: I am Jibraeel. I asked: What is happening tonight?

On the last Saturday of 1394 A.H. Hajj Mulla Ali bin Hasan Kazerooni, from whom we have previously narrated a story, returned from Kuwait to Shiraz in a condition of illness and was admitted in Namazi Hospital for treatment. He had brought Mafatih ul-Jinan and the Holy Qur’an with him.

Righteous servant, Hajj Mujadduddin Shirazi, who was among the pious persons of his time, narrates:

l was suffering from pain in the eyes during my childhood. I went to Mirza Ali Akbar Jarrah. He turned the light around my eye and did not pay attention that before this he had placed his hand on an infected eye. Thus, my eye also became infected and the edges became sore. My father consulted all the big physicians one after another, but it was of no use.