Haji Mulla Ali Tehrani, son of Late Haji Mirza Khalil
Tabib, who was the caretaker of Najaf shrine as long as he lived
and he performed the Ziyarat of Samarrah most of the years and
he had a strange attachment to Holy cellar and he sought for help
and benefits and never was his entreaty unanswered and he said:
It never happened that I should perform the Ziyarat without
seeing a miracle. And during the stay of this humble servant in
Samarrah, he was honored twice in the house of this humble
servant and concealed what he saw and insisted on keeping it as a
secret, on the contrary to conceal all the worship acts.
When I requested to tell me something about those
incidents, he said: It happened many times on dark nights when
all were asleep and there was no sound or movement from
anyone; I performed the Ziyarat of the Sardab.
Near the Sardab, before the entry and before the steps, I saw
an effulgence shining on the wall of the first threshold in the
cellar of occultation, as if someone was carrying a candle and it
was moving from place to place and its rays were moving
everywhere. So I went down and entered the holy cellar. I neither
saw anyone there and there was no lamp there.
When he performed the Ziyarat and the symptoms of dropsy
appeared in him and he became very aggrieved of it, he entered
the holy cellar and said: Tonight I sought a general cure and went
into the holy cellar and entered that small platform and inserted
my feet into the well of cure, which people call as the well of
occultation and suspended myself in it.
Not much time passed, but that my illness was cured and the
Late gentleman decided to serve that shrine, but after returning to
Najaf Ashraf he was unable to do so as his illness returned and he
passed away in 1290 in the last part of the month of Safar. May
Allah, the Almighty raise him up with those whom he followed
Behaarul Anwaar, vol. 53, p. 257