True (???) story about Hazra Hamza's (ra) grave

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I’ve been reading an Urdu booklet and came across this wonderful story. I wonder if that really happened. The booklet is called “Maut or azaab e qabar kai iebartanaak manaazir au waaqyaat” and is written by some professor doctor Noora Mohammad Sahib Noor:

This happened in 1968, I was in S. Arabia working as a doctor (well something like that, I didn’t understand the proper words). On a Friday I went to Madina manawra for zayarat. I worked there with a doctor friend of mine, the doctor got ill and there were a lot of patients waiting. The doctor asked me to look after his patients.

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An old man called took me to have a look at a patient at Uhud mountain. (…) After I attended the patient the old man took me Hazrat Hamza’s (ra) grave and told me:

“Fifty years ago Hazrat Hamza’s (ra) grave was down in the “waadie” (urdu word, don’t know the meaning). One time we had heavy rain and his grave was flooded with water. The sharief Mecca (what’s sharief? I thought it meant decent) dreamed about Hazrat Hamza (ra) telling him the water was bothering him and the problem needed to be fixed. Sharief Mecca consulted with scholars and they decided to dig out the grave and indeed it was flooded. Hazrat Hamza (ra) would have to buried on higher ground. I was one of the grave diggers. While we were digging, one of us accidently hit Hazrat Hamza’s (ra) body (the actual word written is ‘takhna’ or ‘takhni’), fresh blood started to come out of there immediately. All people present were amazed that fresh blood came running out. They put bandage on the wound to stop the bleeding. (…) The kaffan was still there on the latter side of the body, the blood of the wounds was still fresh, an eye was missing and the ears were cut, the abdomen was “chaak” (means cut?). Everybody present did zayarat of Hazrat Hamza (ra). They moved him as he was to the new higher grave and buried him again.”

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*If this story was true, wouldn’t this story have been famous? I’ve never heard about it. Does anybody else know this story? I know the body of a shaheed is like that, but I’ve never heard about Hazrat Hamza’s (ra) body being digged out and seen in that state, I mean, wouldn’t something like that be huge news and a very well known story by now? *

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Re: True (???) story about Hazra Hamza's (ra) grave

In 1918, Mecca was administered by a man who though having rebelled, turned traitor, declared independence from the Khilafat, and waged war alongside Christians against his own Khalif, retained the title given to him by the Khalif - Sharif.

Hence you have the Sharif of Mecca, or Sharif Mecca.

At any rate, if something sounds too good to be true, it almost certanly is. Besides which, blood would only run out uncontrollably to the extent that a bandage is required if the heart was still pumping,.

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Re: True (???) story about Hazra Hamza's (ra) grave

Thanks for the explanation.

So the running blood being stopped by bandage is probably exagerrated.

I'm still not sure if the rest of the story would be really true or 'a hidden treasure' only noticed thanks to that booklet. Oh well, either way, it is a good read.

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Re: True (???) story about Hazra Hamza's (ra) grave

I remember a story in mid eighties at the time of expension of Masjid Nabvi, graves were discovered and bodies belonged to companions of Prophet S.A.W. Which was taken out and was reburied at another place after the Janaza prayer which was also attended by King Khalid.

I read about it in a newspaper.