পৃষ্ঠা 84: প্রথম অধ্যায়: দূরবর্তী আলামতসমূহ যা ইতিমধ্যে প্রকাশ পেয়ে অতিক্রান্ত হয়েছে

Mention of pelting with stones (al-qadhf) and the places of its occurrence

This account was mentioned by al-Sayyid al-Samhudi, Ibn Hajar in 'al-Zawajir' and 'al-Sawa'iq', al-Qastallani in 'al-Mawahib al-Ladunniyyah', and others.

It is mentioned in 'al-Zawajir' that there was a man in Aleppo who used to revile the two Shaykhs (Abu Bakr and 'Umar, may Allah be pleased with them). When he died, some youths agreed to exhume his grave. When they dug it up, they found that he had been transfigured into a pig, so they dragged him out and burned him with fire. And it is said: seldom is there a Rafidi who is not transfigured in his grave into a swine, and Allah knows best.

Al-Suyuti mentioned in 'Tarikh al-Khulafa'' that in the year 782 AH, during the caliphate of al-Mutawakkil, the sixth of the Abbasid caliphs in Egypt, a letter arrived from Aleppo stating that an Imam stood up to pray, and a man mocked and harassed him during his prayer. The Imam did not interrupt the prayer until he had finished it, and when he uttered the salam, the face of the mocker transformed into the face of a pig, whereupon he fled to a nearby forest. An official record was written documenting this event.

As for pelting with stones (al-qadhf): al-Suyuti related in 'Tarikh al-Khulafa'' that in the year 285 AH, black and white stones rained down upon a village in Basra, and hail fell, the weight of a single hailstone being one hundred and fifty dirhams.

In the year 242 AH, the village of al-Suwayda' was pelted with stones, and one of the stones was weighed and found to be ten ratls.

In the year 478 AH, during the caliphate of al-Muqtadi, a black wind struck Baghdad, thunder and lightning intensified, and sand and dust fell like rain.

A trustworthy person informed me that in the year one thousand and sixty-something, numerous wide black stones rained down, the size of chicken eggs and larger, during the summer while the sky was clear, in the Kurdish territories between Hizan and Kafra, and the sound of it could be heard from a day's journey away.

In the middle of the month of Rabi' al-Awwal in the year 741 AH, a letter arrived in Egypt from Hama reporting that during those days in Ba'rin, a dependency of Hama, hail had fallen in the forms of various creatures, including predators, serpents, scorpions, birds, goats, herons, and men.