Hadith 31

had not seen a construction any more excellent that it, nor any more illuminating than it, and the servant went ahead to a curtain upon a room and raised it. Then he said to me, ‘Enter! ’ I entered the room, and there was a youth seated in the middle of the room, and a long sword was hanging from the ceiling above his-ajfj head, almost touching his-ajfj head, and the youth was (like) a full moon shining in the darkness. I greeted. He-ajfj responded the greeting in a kind and eloquent manner, then said to me: ‘Do you know who I-ajfj am? ’ I said, ‘No, by Allah-azwj! ’ He-ajfj said: ‘I-ajfj Al-Qaim-ajfj from the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww. I-ajfj am the one who shall emerge at the end of times with this sword’ – and he-ajfj indicated to it – ‘And I shall fill the earth with justice and fairness just as it would have been filled with tyranny and injustice’. I fell down upon my face and rolled on the ground. He-ajfj said: ‘Do not do so! Raise your head, you are so and so from a city by the mountain called Hamdan! ’ I said, ‘You-ajfj speak the truth, O my chief and my Master-ajfj! ’
He-ajfj said: ‘Would you like to return to your family? ’ I said, ‘Yes, O my chief, and give them good news of what Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic has Ordained for me’. He-ajfj gestured to the servant. He grabbed my hand and gave me a pouch and went out and walked with me some steps. I looked at shades and trees and a minaret of a Masjid. He said, ‘Do you recognise this city? ’ I said, ‘Nearby our city there is a city called Astabad, and it resembles it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He said, ‘This is Astabad! Go, having been guided’. I turned, but I did not see him, and I entered Astabad, and in the pouch there were forty or fifty Dinars. I arrived at Hamdan and gathered my family members and gave them good news of what Allah-azwj had Granted to me, and the Mighty and Majestic cheered him (me), and we did not cease to be with goodness for as long as (something) from those Dinars remained with us’’. [42]