Hadith 40

is guided, except that he will not be dying until he sees me-ajfj! ’
We kept this Hadeeth aside. A long time passed by, and the nobleman Umar died, and it was not heard that he had met him-ajfj. When I gathered with Sheikh Al-Zahid Ibn Badiya, I mentioned to him the narration which he had mentioned, and I said to him like rebutting upon him, ‘Hadn’t you mentioned that this nobleman will not be dying until he sees Master-ajfj of the command, the one who had been indicated to? ’ He said to me, ‘And from where did you know that he did not see him-ajfj? ’
Then I gathered afterwards with the nobleman Abu Al-Manaqib, son of the nobleman Umar Bin Hamza, and we discussed the Ahadeeth of his father. He said, ‘One night, at the end of the night, I was in the presence of my father, and he was in his illness which he died in, and his strength had fallen, and his voice was weak, and the doors were closed upon us, when a person entered to see us. We were astonished of his-ajfj entry and were too stunned to question him-ajfj. He-ajfj sat to the side of my father and went on to discuss with him for a while, and my father cried. Then he-ajfj got up. When he-ajfj had disappeared from our eyes, my father leant and said, ‘Sit me up! ’ I sat him up, and he opened his eyes and said, ‘Where is the person who was with me? ’ We said, ‘He-ajfj went out from where he-ajfj had come from’. He said: ‘Search for him-ajfj! ’ We went in his-ajfj tracks. We found (all) the doors to be closed and we could not find any trace of his-ajfj. We returned to him and informed him of his-ajfj state, and that we could not find him-ajfj, and we asked him about him-ajfj. He said, ‘This is Master-ajfj of the command! ’ Then he returned to his heaviness in the illness and there was unconsciousness upon him’’. [52]