The respected Sayyid Ali bin Taaoos has narrated in his Mohijjud Daawaat from the books of some ancient scholars, who narrate that Abu Ali Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Husain and Ishaq bin Ja’far bin Muhammad Alawi Aridhi in Harran that he said: Informed me from Muhammad bin Ali Alawi Husaini, who lived in Egypt that he said: A great calamity and severe concern struck me in context to my relationship to the ruler of Egypt. I feared for my life. I had been slandered before Ahmad Ibne Tulun.
So, I left Egypt for Hajj and went from Hijaz to Iraq. I wanted to go to the shrine of my master, Husain Ibne Ali (a.s.) to seek refuge from him and seek asylum at his tomb, in order to be secure from the lash of the person I feared. I remained at the sacred abode for fifteen days, praying and making earnest and tearful entreaties day and night.
So, the Custodian of the Time and the Bosom Friend of the All-Merciful was shown to me, as I was in a state between stupor and awake. He said to me, “Imam Husain is saying to you, O my son, do you fear so-and-so?” I said: “Yes, he wants to kill me. So, I have sought refuge with my master (a.s.) to complain from the calamity my enemy has schemed for me.”
He urged me, “Why don’t you pray to Allah, your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers, through Duas, through which the apostles in the past beseeched the Lord? They were in severity and Allah succored them.”
“Which Dua should I recite?” I asked. “When it is the Friday eve, make a Ghusl and offer your midnight prayers. When you have performed your prostration of thankfulness, recite this Dua, as you are hobbling on your knees.” Then he mentioned to me the supplication.
I saw him in the same time, as he would come to me as I was between stupor and awake. He came to me on five consecutive nights, repeating the same words until I memorized the Dua. His visits to me stopped on Friday eve.
I made Ghusl, dusted my dress off and applied fragrance. I prayed the midnight prayers and performed the prostration of thankfulness. I hobbled on my knees and entreated Allah, the Exalted, through this Dua. The Master of the Age (a.s.) came to me on the eve of Saturday and said, “Your Dua has been accepted, O Muhammad; your enemy was killed when you had just finished your supplication, before the very person he had slandered you to.”
Next morning, I bid my Master farewell and departed for Egypt; and as I reached Jordan on my way to Egypt, I saw one of my neighbors, who was a pious man. He told me that Ahmad Ibne Tulun had seized my enemy and had ordered that he should be taken care of and that my enemy was found beheaded from the hind in the morning. This had happened on that Friday eve and Ahmad Ibne Tulun had ordered, on the virtue of which his body had been dumped into the Nile.
A number of people of my area and our Shia brothers told me that this event had reached them at the same time when I had finished the Dua, as my Master had informed me.
Sayyid (r.a.) has narrated this incident
through another channel from Abu Hasan Ali bin Hammad Misri with some
differences and its end is as follows: When I reached some stations, I suddenly
saw a messenger from my children and with him was a letter containing the
following: The person from whom you have fled, he has collected people and has
provided dinner to them; so they ate and drank and then dispersed and he and
his servants slept at that place only.
When the people woke up in the morning,
they did not hear anything from him. So they removed the quilt from over him
and found him slaughtered and bleeding… till the end.
At that time, a judge of Ahwaz met me in Basra; he was an opponent and he owed a favor to me and I was his country and I was living with him.
Thus, the king apprehended him and he took
from him a statement that he will give him twenty thousand dirhams. So I had pity
on him and I gave this Dua to him. He recited it, the week was not over, but
that the Sultan began to release him and from that writing he did not take
anything from him. He sent him to his country with respect and I escorted him
till Aballa and then returned to Basra. After some days, I called for that Dua.
I did not get it and I searched for it in all the books, but there was no sign
of it. So I asked that Dua from Abu Mukhtar Husaini as he was having a copy of
it. He was also unable to find it in his books.
I searched for it in all my books from that
time till twenty years, but was unable to find it and then I realized that as I
had given it to a non-Shia person it was a punishment from Allah, the Mighty
and Sublime.
After twenty years I found it in my books and while I had searched for it so many times, but failed to locate it. I swore that I will not give it to anyone about whose belief I am not certain that he is a believer in the Wilayat of Aale Muhammad (a.s.) and after that I will take pledge from him that he will similarly not give to anyone, unless he is worthy of it. Since the supplication is very long; it is beyond the scope of this book and it is present in all books of supplications, I have not quoted it here.
It should be known that the source of this Dua, famous as Dua Alawi Misri is the book of Mohijjud Daawaat of Sayyid and before that it was not seen in any books and its beginning is as follows: “Rabbi manzal ladhee doaaoka…”
However, in the treatise of the addenda to Misbaah Kafami, which is famous and is
mostly accompanied with a copy of Misbaah
and its author is unknown, it is mentioned as follows:
It is a very effective prayer for warding
off the mischief of the enemies and there is long incident connected with it,
but here we do not have the scope to mention it. However, we should know that
this supplication is reliably narrated with authentic chains of narrators;
narrating from Ameerul Momineen Ali Ibne Abi Talib (a.s.) and towards one, who
has experienced it and regained health because of it.
After that etiquettes are mentioned, which
must be observed before it and the chapters and verses of Quran, which are to
be recited before the supplication.
After that he said: Begin the supplication
with sincerity, humility and purity of intention and after scrutiny till now it
is not yet known that what and where is the source of the author regarding
these rituals. and Allah knows best.
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