Seventy-three languages in a split second

Abu Hashim Ja’fari narrates: I went to meet Imam Ali Naqi (a) and he spoke to me in the Indian language, but I could not speak that tongue. Then he picked a pebble and put it in his mouth. After sucking it, he gave it to me. When I sucked it, I became learned in seventy-three languages in a split second, the first of them being the Indian language.

Elamul Wara, Pg. 343; Ithbatul Huda, Vol. 3, Pg. 369, Miracles of Ahlulbayt (a.s. ) - Vol. 4,Pg.133

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