The Miracles of Imam Hasan and Imam Hussain (May Allah be well pleased with them)

 The blessings of the saliva of the Imam

The famous Hadith expert of the 3^rd Hijri Muhammad bin Sa’ad (May Allah shower His Mercy on him) (Dec. 230) has related a Tradition in “Tabaqaatul Kubra”:

Translation: It is narrated on the authority of Hadhrat Abu ‘Aun, he says:  When Imam Hussain (May Allah be well pleased with him) was going from Madina to Makkah, he passed by Ibn Mutee’ who was getting a well dug.  He spoke:  …O Imam!  To where do you journey?  The Imam said:  To Makkah.  The Imam also mentioned to Ibn Mutee’ that the people of Kufa had sent letters to him.  Ibn Mutee’ requested:  Please let us benefit from you, don’t go to them.

Imam Hussain (May Allah be well pleased with him) refused.  Then Ibn Mutee’ presented a need of his.  He said:  I have gotten this well dug and today some water has been found in the pail.  You please supplicate Allah that this be blessed.

Imam Hussain (May Allah be well pleased with him) said:  Get some water from it.  When it was presented to the Imam, he took some water from it in his blessed mouth and then spat it back.  When that water was poured back into the well, the water of that well became sweet and it came forth in abundance as well.  (Tabaqaat Al Kubra Li Ibn Sa’ad, Baabu Abu Sa’eed)

The mouth and tongue of Imam Hussain (May Allah be well pleased with him) have the honor that the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) would take his tongue in His mouth.  The Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) had put His blessed saliva into the mouth of Imam Hussain (May Allah be well pleased with him).  Thus, its blessings had come into the mouth of Imam Hussain (May Allah be well pleased with him).  That’s the reason the saliva of the Imam can sweeten brackish water and make water emerge from a dry well.