Mabad bin Junaid Shami says: I went to meet Imam Ali Reza (a) and I said, “Everywhere there are discussions about your miracles and extraordinary acts. If you show me some miracle I can also continue to narrate it.”
“What would you like?” asked the Imam.
I said, “I would like you to bring my parents back to life.”
“Go home,” said the Imam, “Your parents would be there before you reach. I have asked Allah to grant them life.”
The narrator says: When I reached home I found my parents alive and in health and they lived with me for ten days, after which they passed away again.1
Ibrahim bin Sahl says: Imam Ali Reza (a) was travelling somewhere mounted on his donkey. I went to him and said,
“Most Shia imagine that your father did not leave any declaration about your Imamate, yet you claimed Imamate!”
“All right, tell me what the attributes of an Imam according to you are?”
I said, “An Imam is one, who brings information of the unseen, who revives the dead and who can make the living dead.”
“I am having these traits. Right now you possess five gold coins and your wife died a year ago. I have enlivened her just now and I will let her remain with you for a year and then separate her from you; and I am doing this so that you become certain of my Imamate.”
The narrator says: At these words, I began to shiver in my bones. Then the Imam said,
“There is nothing to fear; you may go home now in peace.”
So I went home and found my wife alive and in health.
I asked, “How did you return?”
She replied, “I was asleep when a person arrived.” Then she described that man and it was the description of Imam Ali Reza (a). “Then he said: Get up and go to your husband’s house. After your death Almighty Allah would grant you a son.”
Thus a son was born to this lady and she passed away after a year.
Dalailul Imamah, Pg. 187; Ithbatul Huda, Vol. 3, Pg. 310, Miracles of Ahlulbayt (a.s. ) - Vol. 3,pg.341
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