shaking the dust from his face and beard. He said to them: 'Woe to you! This is Allah!' and he pointed with his hand toward Amir Al-Muminin — Exalted Glory — 'who returned my soul to my body, revived me, and raised me.' They said to him: 'O Amir Al-Muminin, we adjure you by Allah to return this man to his grave; for if the people see him and that you have revived him, they will apostatize from the religion and say of you what the Christians said of the Messiah, taking you as a Lord and a God.' He said to him: 'Return to the state you were in.' So, he returned, and the grave closed over him. He [the Imam] then said to them: 'If you wish, I shall give you scrolls containing the mention of what you have sent forth, thésaurized, and hoarded, and the mention of what was and what shall be of you, your traces, and your lifespans until the end of your times.' They said: 'We would like that, though we do not doubt that you are capable of all things.' So, he brought out for each one of them a scroll containing the mention of what he had said to them. They took them and all came to the Messenger of Allah — Exalted Glory — and informed him of the news and what they had witnessed. The Messenger of Allah — Exalted Glory — said to them: 'The one encircled with light, Gabriel, came to me and said: "Read." I said: "What shall I read?" He said to me: "Read: «Indeed, it is We who bring the dead to life and record what they have put forth and their traces, and all things We have accounted for in a manifest Imam»"'¹

Among them is that a people came to the Messenger of Allah — Exalted Glory — with a sister of theirs and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, this sister of ours has become pregnant without a partner whom we paired with her, and we want you to carry out the legal punishment (ḥadd) upon her.' The Messenger of Allah — Exalted Glory — said to them: 'Take her to Amir Al-Muminin — Exalted Glory —.' They went and mentioned what they had said to the Messenger of Allah — Exalted Glory — regarding their sister. He — Exalted Glory — said to