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Salman Jafferi narrates that he was sitting with Imam Reza (a.s.) in his garden. At that
time a bird came, started rolling on the ground. The Imam (a.s.) went inside the house for
a while. On his return, he asked me, “ O Salman! Do you know what this bird was
complaining about?” I said, “ I don’t know!”
The Imam (a.s.) said,,” A snake was eating away its chicks. Even today the snake came to
swallow its xhicks..The bird came to complain to me about the snake. I went and killed
the snake!”
Ahmed bin Haroon narrates that once Imam Moosa Kazim (a.s.) came to my tent and left
his horse near the rope of the tent and started conversing with me. Suddenly the horse
made a loud noise. The Imam (a.s.) smiled hearing this and told to the horse, “ Go relieve
yourself and come back!” The horse went some distance away from the tent, relieved
itself and came back. The Imam (a.s.) said, “ O Ibne Haroon! You know that Allah has
given more miracles to Mohammed (a.s.) and the descendents of Mohammed (a.s.) than
to Dawood (a.s.) and the progeny of Dawood (a.s.). “
Mohammed bin Muslim narrates that he was travelling with Imam Mohammed Baqir
(a.s.) from Mecca to Medina when a wolf came down a hill and running towards the
Imam (a.s.)’s horse. It raised the forelimbs sky-wards and put its face to the ground. The
Imam (a.s.) bent down and heard what the wolf way saying. He then told something to
the wolf.. The wolf was satisfied and ran away. The Imam (a.s.) then asked me what had
transpired between him and the wolf. When I said that I couldn’t comprehend anything,
the Imam (a.s.) said, “ The wolf’s female is in the pains of delivery. It said that we are the
resolvers of difficulties and it wanted me to pray that the delivery became easy for its
female. It also wanted me to pray that its off springs don’t cause harm to our Shias.”
It is narrated that one day Imam Zain al Abedeen (a.s.) was sitting with his companions
when one female deer, a doe, came complaining. The Imam (a.s.) asked the companions
about what the animal was saying. When the companions expressed their ignorance, the
Imam (a.s.) said,
“ The deer said that a certain Qureishi has captured its little one, the fawn. She requested
me to recommend its release so that it can be suckled. It would return the fawn to the
Qureishi after feeding it.”
The Imam (a.s.) then asked his companions to accompany him to the Qureishi’s house.
He called the person and told him to release the fawn that it would get a feed from its
mother and comes back. The Qureishi brought the cub, the deer fed it and returned to the
man. The Imam (a.s.) asked the Qureishi to give the little fawn to him. The man readily
agreed. The Imam (a.s.) then returned the fawn to its mother. The deer raised its head
towards the Heaven as if it was saying a prayer. The companions asked the Imam (a.s.),
what the deer was saying.
The Imam (a.s.) replied, “ The deer was praying to Allah that the way we helped her to
get its little one, our children too be safe with us!”