A devout scholar who witnessed the times of Hajj Shaykh Muhammad Jawad Bedabadi (regarding whom a few stories were quoted) narrates: Once that gentleman set out from Isfahan with his sister to visit the shrine of Imam Ali Al-Ridha ('a) in Holy Mashhad and to stay there for forty days.
Aga Mirza Abu ‘l-Qasim (who was mentioned before also) has quoted from late Itimad ul-Waizeen Tehrani that during a famine in Tehran, one day Nasiruddin Shah Mir Ghazab Bashi, the executor, heard wails of some puppies near a water tank. He saw bitch that had a delivery and the puppies were clinging to her body, but since there was no milk in her udders, they were bleating and howling in hunger. Mir Ghazab pitied them and from a nearby bakery bought some bread and threw it before the female and stood watching. After eating the bread she got milk and the puppies started nursing.
Sincere follower of the mastership (Wilayat) of Ahl ul-Bayt ('a), Aga Mirza Abu ‘l-Qasim Attar Tehrani has narrated from Hajj Shaykh Abdun Nabi Noori, a student of Late Hajj Sabzawari that in the last year of Haji's life, one day a person came to his class and informed that a person has come out of a grave. Half his body was below the ground and half out of it. His stare was fixed on the sky and children harass him all the time, but he was oblivious of them.
The prominent scholar, Aga Mirza Mahmud Shirazi has also narrated the following story:
In Karbala Moalla, the late Sayyid Zayn ul-Abidin Kashi had a servant, who was a native of Tabriz. (I forget his name). He was a righteous man with a religious temperament and followed proper beliefs and guidance.
During my stay in Najaf al-Ashraf in Muharram 1358 A.H., flagellating, chest beati ng and taking out of processions was banned by the Iraqi government. On Ashura night, in order to ensure that there is no chest beating in the holy mausoleum, the holy sanctuary and compound were closed since early evening and all the doors were locked. The door being closed last was Baab Qibla. They had closed one flap when suddenly a chest beating group crowded and entered the compound and turned to the holy sanctuary and finding it closed continued their rituals in the compound itself.
The late Sayyid Ismail Mujab (dentist) used to narrate some strange incidents. which he witnessed during his stay in India. He reported that a community of Hindu traders was devoted to the chief of martyrs, Imam Husayn ('a). In order to earn the blessings of the Imam they took him as a partner in their businesses. That is they spent a part of their annual income in his way. On Ashura Day, some of them got sherbet, falooda and ice-cream prepared through Shia and had it distributed among mourners of Imam Husayn ('a) and themselves stood in a mournful manner.
A great scholar has narrated that once a prominent businessman of Isfahan, who was very much devoted to Aga Jawad Bedabadi (mentioned in previous stories also), fell ill. The late Bedabadi wen t to visit him and on seeing him in a swoon feared that it might lead to his death. So he told his sons to distribute 14000 Tomans among the poor as Sadaqah so that he may pray for his cure through the mediation of Hazrat Hujjat, but they did not accept his suggestion.
Hajj Ali Aga Salman (from whom stories 29 and 30 were narrated) said:
One night I was praying the Midnight Prayer. During the Witr Prayer, in which al-Awf is recited 300 times, I picked up the rosary from my prayer mat to recite this.
The learned research scholar, Aga Mirza, from whom Muhammad Shirazi has narrated stories 5 to 9 said:
Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Juhrami, a prominent scholar of Najaf al-Ashraf and a student of Murtaza Kashmiri (may Allah exalt his position) entered into some transaction with a perfumer of Najaf al-Ashraf. Many times he took interest-free loans from him and when he received some payments he cleared his debts. Once he did not get enough funds to repay the creditor after which he went to him and asked for some more loans. He said: Aga, you have taken too much, I cannot give you more.
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.
