Hadith 39

‘Kitab Al Nujoum’ –
‘During my time I came across a group mentioned that they had witnessed Al-Mahdi-ajfj, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon him-asws, and upon them was someone who had carried notes and messages from him-ajfj having displayed to him-ajfj. From that is what I have recognised as being true is what is narrated to me by him, and he did not permit me in naming him. He mentioned that he had asked Allah-azwj the Exalted that Grace upon him witnessing Al-Mahdi-ajfj, may the Greetings of Allah-azwj be upon him-ajfj. He saw in his dream that he would be seeing him-ajfj during a time indicated to him. He (the narrator) said, ‘When the time came, he was at the shrine of our Master Musa-asws Bin Ja’far-asws. He heard a voice which he had known of before that time, and he was performing visitation of our Master-asws Al-Jawad-asws. The questioner (supplicater) refrained from crowding upon him, and he-ajfj entered and paused by the legs of the shine of our Master-asws Al-Kazim-asws. There emerged someone whom I believed that he-ajfj is Al-Mahdi-ajfj and with him-ajfj was a friend of his-ajfj, and I saw him, and he did not address him-ajfj regarding anything due to the obligation of the discipline in front of him-ajfj. And from that is what is narrated to me with by Al-Rasheed Abu Al-Abbas Bin Maymoun Al-Wasity, and we were ascending to Samarrah. He said, ‘When the Sheikh, meaning my grandfather Warram Bin Abu Firas, may Allah-azwj Sanctify his soul, headed from Al-Hilla in pain from the battles, he stayed at the Holy Shrine by the graveyard of Qureysh for two months except seven days. He said, ‘I headed from Wasit to Surmanray, and it was severely cold. I gathered with the Sheikh at the Shrine of Al-Kazimiyi (7th & 9th Imam-asws), and I let him know of my determination upon performing the visitation. He said to me, ‘I want to give you a note, you should tie it in the waistband of your clothes, for I have tied it in my clothing. When you arrive to the noble spot and your entry happens to be in the beginning of the night, and there does not remain anyone in your presence, and you are the last one to exit, then make the note to be by the dome. When you come back in the morning and do not find the note, do not say anything to anyone’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I did what he had instructed me, and I came back in the morning, I could not find the note, and I went to my family, and the Sheikh had preceded me to his family upon his choice. When I came in the time of the visitati