Respite from plague
Reading Time: 2 minutesAyatullah Haj Shaikh Abdul Karim Haaeri Yazdi (founder of the Hauze-Ilmiyya in Qom) narrates, ‘It was the period of my education in the Hauze Ilmiyya […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]