A Child with Two Heads
Reading Time: < 1 minute Once a question was put to Hazrat Ali (A) about the inheritance of a child having two heads, two chests but only one back. Hazart Ali (A) replied : Let […]
Month: March 2014
Decision About a Donkey and a Cow
Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce a man came to the Holy Prophet (SA) with the complaint that the cow of another man, who had also accompanied him, had killed his donkey. The Holy Prophet […]
Decision in the Case of a Cow and a Camel
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA man catching hold of the opening of the shirt of another man came to Hazrat Omar, (RA) and told him that the other man’s cow had torn off the […]
A Camel Shared by Three
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThree men shared a camel equally. One of them tied his forelegs and went away for some work. In the meantime, the other two returned to their place of stay […]
How He Weighed An Iron Gate
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnce a dispute arose between some persons who had ordered for an iron gate and the blacksmith who had made it about the weight of the iron used therein. The […]
The Weight of a Fetter
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo men saw a slave walking through a street with a fetter on one of his feet. One of the men said : “The weight of the fetter on the […]
Medical Examination of an Eye
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA man’s head was hit by some body also whereafter the man who was hit claimed that his eye sight had become weak thereby. Hazrat Ali (A) examined his eye […]
Compensation Judgment in Case of the Loss of an Eye
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnce a slave of Hazrat Othman (RA) hit the eye of a bedouin resulting in the loss of his eye. The bedouine took the matter to Hazrat Othman, (AR) who […]
The Problem of Eight Breads
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo persons while travelling on a road sat under the shade of a tree for lunch. One of them took out of his big five breads and the other took […]
The Equal Division of Seventeen Camels Without Friction
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThree persons had a dispute about the division of seventeen camels. The ratio of their share was 1/2, 1/3 & 1/9 and they could not divide the figure of seventeen […]