One of the most well-known legends about Sydna Ali involves a young girl and a milk vase. One evening, as Ali walked along the seashore, he heard the sound of a child crying. Sitting on the sand beneath a cliff was a young girl, visibly distraught. When Ali asked her why she was crying, the girl tearfully explained that she had been sent to fetch milk for her family, but the vase had broken, spilling the milk into the sand. Understanding the gravity of her situation, as milk was a precious commodity for her poor family, Ali comforted the girl. With a calm smile, he knelt down and prayed. Miraculously, the broken vase reassembled itself, and Ali then reached into the sand, squeezing milk from the grains, filling the vase as if nothing had happened.

Years later, when Ali passed away, he was buried near his home, as tradition dictated. However, the story takes a mysterious turn here. The next morning, Ali’s family was horrified to find his body outside of the grave. They quickly reburied him, but again, the earth rejected his body the following day. This occurred several times, and no one could understand why the ground refused to hold him. According to legend, Ali appeared in a dream to his friend Fouad, a local tea shop owner, and explained that the earth was unwilling to accept him because he had once squeezed milk from it—an unnatural act that disrupted its balance​.

Ali told Fouad that the only solution was to build a structure above the ground, where he would rest without being buried. Following his instructions, Ali’s family and friends constructed a small mausoleum, and it is in this above-ground tomb, beneath the watchful gaze of the black stone that once marked his house, that Ali remains to this day, venerated as a saint​.