Hadith 208

(The book) ‘Al Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub –
‘Al-Mutawakkil sent Attab Bin Abu Attab to Al-Medina to carry Ali-asws Bin Muhammad-asws to Surmanray. And the Shias were narrating that he-asws knew the hidden matters, and there was something from this in the soul of Attab. When he-asws was at a distance from Al-Medina, he saw him-asws and he-asws was wearing the thick clothes, and the sky was clear. It could not have been any quicker before it became cloudy, and it rained. Attab said, ‘This is one! ’
Then when he-asws arrived at the banks of Al-Qatoul (Qatoun – a branch of river Tigris), he-asws saw him being troubled of heart. He-asws said to him: ‘What is the matter, O Abu Ahmad! ’ He said, ‘My heart is troubling due to the needs I had sought from commander of the faithful’. He-asws said to him: ‘Your needs have been fulfilled’. It could not have been any quicker before the good news came with the fulfilment of his needs. He said, ‘The people are saying that you-asws know the hidden matters, and two characteristics from that have become evident’’. [58]
Al Mo’tamad in ‘Al Usool’ –
‘Ali Bin Mahziyar said, ‘I arrived at Al-Askar, and I was doubting in the Imamate. I saw the sultan to have come out to hunt during a day from Al-Rabie, except that it was summer, and the people had summer clothes upon them, and upon Abu Al-Hassan-asws was a thick coat, and upon his-asws horse was a thick covering, and the tail of the horse had been tied, and the people were surprised from him-asws and were saying, ‘Are you not seeing this Medinite and what he-asws has done with himself-asws? ’
I said within myself, ‘Had this one been an Imam-asws, he-asws would not have done this! ’ When the people went out to the desert. They did not wait long until a mighty cloud arose. It rained, and there did not remain anyone except he was soaked until he was drenched with the rain, and he-asws returned, and he-asws was safe from all of it. I said within myself, ‘There is no doubt that he-asws happens to be the Imam-asws’. Then I said, ‘I want to ask him-asws about the one with sexual impurity when he sweats in the clothes’. I said within myself, ‘If he-asws uncovers his-asws face, then he-asws is the Imam-asws’. When he-asws was near me, he-asws uncovered his-asws face, then said: ‘If the one with sexual impurity sweats in the clothes, and his sexual impurity is from the prohibited (activity), he is not allowed to pray Salat in it. And if his sexual impurity is from permissible (activity), then there is no problem’. Thus, there did not remain any suspicion in my soul after that’’. [59]