What power other than the power of the Worshipped Master and the Manifest Existing Lord could match this Lordly power and spiritual miracle? Exalted be the High (al-'Ali), the Capable, the First, the Last, the Hidden the Manifest, the Hidden who remained hidden within what He made manifest, and manifest within what He kept hidden. He never ceased from His Essential Being (Kayan) even when He appeared to the physical sight ('Ayan). Since we have mentioned one report of His miracles—exalted and glorified is He—at Siffin and with the Kharijites, we must now mention from His miracles 'The Kufan Accounts' (al-Kufiyyat)—may their Originator be exalted above [the need for] fathers and mothers, and transcending all descriptions and attributes. These also comprise many miracles; were we to collect even a portion of them, they would constitute separate books in their own right.

Our Lord, the Commander of the Faithful, may His glory be magnified, shows Jabir ibn Abd Allah al-Ansari His power

[20] Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Dawud al-Qummi narrated, he said: Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi narrated to me, he said: Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Ali narrated to me, he said: Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Zayd narrated to me, he said: Dawud al-A'mash narrated to me, he said: Jabir ibn Abd Allah al-Ansari narrated to me; Jabir said: While I was walking with the Commander of the Faithful, may His glory be magnified, in the streets of Kufa, the Lord,