When they were burned, he said: “Crush them into powder and scatter them in the wind.” So they crushed them and scattered them in the wind.

When the third day after their burning arrived, the people of Sabat entered upon him and said: “Allah, Allah, protect the religion of Muhammad! Indeed, those whom you burned with fire have returned to their homes in a better state than they ever were.” He said: “Did you not burn them with fire, crush them, and scatter them in the wind?” They said: “Yes.” He—His might was mighty—said: “By Allah, I burned them and He brought them back to life.” Thus, the people of Sabat remained bewildered—and the likeness of what Abdullah bin Saba and his companions had said remained.

For this exoteric report contains several diverse miracles of our master the Commander of the Faithful—His might was mighty. Among them is his informing of what used to be placed within the rooms of the Iwan and what used to occur inside it of matters and events, where Dulaf says to him: “it is as if you were the one who placed these things in these locations.”