Sayyed Mo’min Shablanji Shafe’i in his book ‘Noorul Absar’ relates from Abul Qasim bin Muhammad, who says:
One day I saw some people gathered near the ‘Maqaame Ibraheem’ in the Masjid-ul-Haraam (Ka’bah), and asked them the reason for it. They said that a Christian hermit had converted to Islam and had an astonishing incident to narrate. I went and saw an old man wearing woolen clothes sitting there and inquired of him. He said, “One day I was seated outside my hut gazing at the river and adoring it.
Suddenly I saw a huge bird having the head of a donkey descending from the sky. It came down and sat on a boulder. It spitted something from its mouth and flew away. I observed properly and saw that it was a quarter part of a human body. The bird returned again and spitted another quarter part of the human body. This happened four times. When all the four parts collected together, a man arose from it.
I was astonished, when I saw the bird coming again. The bird started biting the man and severed a quarter part of his body and swallowed it without chewing and flew away. It returned four times until it had swallowed the whole body in parts. I wondered as to what was happening and who the person might be. I regretted not having asked the person when the bird was away.
On the second day I saw the same thing happening and gathered courage and went up to the person and asked him as to who he was, and why was he being troubled in such a manner. He replied that his name was Abdul Rehman ibne Muljim, the murderer of Ali ibne Abi Talib, and the bird was sent by Allah to punish him regularly for the grievous crime (murder of Hazrat Ali) which he had committed. Having got the reply, I left my hut and came about to inquire as to who this Ali (a.s.) was. People told me that he was the cousin, son-in-law, and the Vicegerent (Wasi) of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) of Islam.
I have thus accepted Islam because of this event and have come to Mecca to perform the Pilgrimage (Haj), Lesser Pilgrimage (Umrah), and the Ziarat of the grave of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.).