وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي يَصِفُ وَ لَا يُوصَفُ وَ يَعْلَمُ وَ لَا يُعْلَمُ يَعْلَمُ خَائِنَةَ الْأَعْيُنِ وَ مَا تُخْفِي الصُّدُورُ وَ أَعُوذُ بِوَجْهِ اللَّهِ الْكَرِيمِ وَ بِاسْمِ اللَّهِ الْعَظِيمِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا بَرَأَ وَ ذَرَأَ وَ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا تَحْتَ الثَّرَى وَ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا بَطَنَ وَ ظَهَرَ وَ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا وَصَفْتُ وَ مَا لَمْ أَصِفْ وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ And the Praise is for Allah -azwj Who Describes while He -azwj cannot be described, and He -azwj Knows while He -azwj cannot be known.
He -azwj Knows the betrayal of the eyes and what the chests conceal. And I seek Refuge by His -azwj Benevolent Face, and by the Magnificent Name of Allah -azwj , from the evil of what is spread and inseminated, and from the evil of what is beneath the ground, and from the evil of what is hidden and apparent, and from the evil of what can be described and what cannot be described. And the Praise is for Allah -azwj , Lord -azwj of the worlds.
(an extract) [14] Appendix II: Additional Ahadith on moving away from the epidemic وَ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع فِي قَوْلِهِ وَ أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْراً أَبابِيلَ تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ فَقَالَ هَؤُلَاءِ أَهْلُ مَدِينَةٍ كَانَتْ عَلَى سَاحِلِ الْبَحْرِ إِلَى الْمَشْرِقِ فِيمَا بَيْنَ الْيَمَامَةِ وَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ يُخِيفُونَ السَّبِيلَ وَ يَأْتُونَ الْمُنْكَرَ فَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْراً جَاءَتْهُمْ مِنْ قِبَلِ الْبَحْرِ رُءُوسُهَا كَأَمْثَالِ رُءُوسِ السِّبَاعِ وَ أَبْصَارُهَا كَأَبْصَارِ السِّبَاعِ مِنَ الطَّيْرِ مَعَ كُلِّ طَيْرٍ ثَلَاثَةُ أَحْجَارٍ حَجَرَانِ فِي مَخَالِبِهِ وَ حَجَرٌ فِي مِنْقَارِهِ فَجَعَلَتْ تَرْمِيهِمْ بِهَا حَتَّى جُدِّرَتْ أَجْسَادُهُمْ And by this chain, from Ibn Mahboub, from Jameel Bin Salih, from Abu Maryam, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far -asws regarding His -azwj Words [105:3] And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks , so he -asws said: ‘They were the people of a city which was at the coast of the sea to the east in what is between Al-Yamama and Al-Bahrain, frightening upon the way, and coming to the evil.
So Allah -azwj Sent bird upon them, which came to them from the sea. Their heads were like the heads of the predators, and their claws were like the claws of the predatory birds. With every bird were three stones, two stones in their claws, and a stone in its beak. So they went on to pelt these until their bodies became blistered.