Almighty kept me in a state of death for a hundred years and then revived me.’ She said, ‘Sayyiduna ‘Uzayr عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام was ‘مُسْتَجابُ الدَّعْوات’, whatever Du’a he made was accepted. So make a Du’a that my eyesight is returned to me so that I can see you.’ He عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام made the Du’a and that woman gained her sight back. He عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام held her hand and said, ‘stand with the permission of Allah Almighty.’ As soon as he said that, her paralysed legs became healthy. She saw him, recognised him and said, ‘I testify that you are certainly ‘Uzayr عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام.’ She took him to the neighbourhood of Bani Israel. His son was there in a gathering; his age was 118 years old. His grandsons were also there, they too had become old.

The old woman said in the gathering, ‘Sayyiduna ‘Uzayr عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام has arrived!’ The people of the gathering ignored her, so she said, ‘Look at me! His Du’a has cured me.’ People stood and came to him. His son said, ‘In between my father’s shoulders, there was a crescent of black hair.’ When he عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام uncovered his body and showed the people, it was present. Furthermore, there was no copy of Torah in those times, and nobody knew it. He عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام recited the entire Torah by heart. An individual said, ‘I found out from my father that after Bukht Nasr’s oppression, in the time of imprisonment, my grandfather buried the Torah at a certain place; I know where it is. Therefore, after finding that copy of Torah, when it was compared to the one which Sayyiduna ‘Uzayr عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام had scribed by heart, there wasn’t a difference of even a single letter. (Tafseer Siraat-ul-Jinan, Part 3, Surah Al-Baqarah, under the verse 259, vol. 1, pp. 390-392)

Allah Almighty mentions this incident in Parah 3, Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 259, like this:

قَالَ اَنّٰى یُحْیٖ هٰذِهِ اللّٰهُ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَاۚ-فَاَمَاتَهُ اللّٰهُ مِائَةَ عَامٍ ثُمَّ بَعَثَهٗؕ-قَالَ كَمْ لَبِثْتَؕ-قَالَ لَبِثْتُ یَوْمًا اَوْ بَعْضَ یَوْمٍؕ-قَالَ بَلْ لَّبِثْتَ مِائَةَ عَامٍ

He said, ‘How will Allah revive it, after it had perished?’ So, Allah left him dead for a hundred years, then brought him back to life. He