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Miracles of Masoomeen

Tabari Imami has narrated through his chains of authorities from Marrah bin Qubaisa bin Abdul Hamid that he said: 

Jabir bin Yazid Jofi said: I saw my lord and master, Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s) make an elephant out of mud, which he mounted and it rose up into the air and took him to Mecca and then brought him back to Medina.  

Marrah says: I did not accept this traditional report of Jabir bin Yazid Jofi and I said: It is an open lie! After some days I met Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s) and told him that Jabir Jofi has mentioned that report about him. He said: “What is astonishing about that?” Then he made an elephant of sand before me, mounted it and made me mount it as well. The elephant rose up in the air and took us to Mecca. After that we returned to Medina in that same way.

(Dalailul Imamah, Pg. 96.Miracles of Ahlulbayt (a.s.) – Vol. 2. by Ayatullah Sayyid Hashim Bahrani.Amali, Tusi, Vol. 2, Pg. 359)

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