Informed me Mirza Ismail Salmasi, who for years was the
Imam of congregation in the Kazmain shrine in Iraq that:
Informed me my father, who was an erudite scholar and owner of
great ranks with God, the Akhund Mulla Zainuddin Salmasi, who
was among the close associates of Allamah Tabatabai Bahrul
Ulum. He was the custodian of the construction of Samarrah
Castle along with Mirza Muhammad Baqir, who was elder to me.
Since this incident was heard fifty years ago, I was unsure and he
has also narrated from his grandfather that he said:
Among the clear miracles of the Holy Imams (a.s.) at
Samarrah is that at the end of the twelfth month or at the
beginning of the thirteenth month, a man from Iran came for the
Ziyarat of Askariain in summer, when the climate was extremely
hot and he intended to perform the Ziyarat when the key holder
was in the patio, in the middle of the day and the gates of the
sanctuary were closed and he was sleeping near a window, which
was at the west and which opened into the courtyard.
When he heard the footsteps of pilgrims, he opened the door
and asked the person to perform the Ziyarat. The pilgrim said to
him: Take this gold coin, and leave me alone so that I may recite
Ziyarat with attention and presence of mind.
The sentry refused, saying: I will not break the rule.
So he gave him the second and third Ashrafi. He refused
again and when he saw more Ashrafis his refusal increased.
After that the pilgrim turned to the shrine and said with a
broken heart: My parents be sacrificed on you! I intended to
perform your Ziyarat with humility, but he has restrained me
severely from it.
The sentry expelled him and closed the door thinking that he
will return and give him whatever he can. He turned to the
eastern side of the patio and then returned to the western side.
When he reached the first pillar, where he should have
turned for the window, he saw three persons coming towards him and all of them were in a single file. One of them being a little
ahead of the others and then another and so on and he was
carrying a spear with a sharp point. When the sentry saw them,
he was shocked.
The person holding the spear turned to him while he was full
of rage. His eyes had become red due to the fury and he moved
his spear threatening him and said: O accursed one, son of the
accursed one. It is as if this man has come to your house or for
your Ziyarat that you stopped him?
At that time the eldest of them turned to him and gestured
and restrained him saying: He is your neighbor; you should
welcome your neighbor.
The one with the spear restrained from it and the third one
became furious and shaking the spear repeated the statement of
the first one.
The eldest of them gestured restraining him and for the third
time became enraged and shook the spear. And that person did
not turn at all and he swooned and fell down and did not regain
consciousness except on the second or third day in his house.
In the evening his relatives arrived entering from the back
porch door, which they opened and saw him lying unconscious.
He was taken to his home. After two days he regained sense. His
relatives cried for him.
He narrated to them what had passed between him and the
pilgrim and those three persons, and he cried: Take me to water
as I am burning and dying.
They started pouring water on him and he implored them until they opened his side.
They saw a dark spot the size of a dirham and he was
saying: The one with spear hit me.
They carried him and took him to Baghdad and showed him
to physicians. All failed to cure him.
Then they took him to Basra, since there was a famous
European doctor there. When they showed him to the doctor and
he checked his pulse, he was amazed, because he saw nothing to
explain the swelling and black patch.
He said: I think that’s he had trespassed on the sanctity of
some saint that God Almighty has punished him with this.
When they despaired of his cure they took him back to
Baghdad. He died in Baghdad or on the way back. His name was
Hasan
Behaarul Anwaar, vol. 53, pp. 294-296