Hadith 2

(The book) ‘Al Ghayba’ of the Sheikh Al Tusi – By this chain from Ahmad Bin Ali Al Razi who said, ‘It is narrated to me by muhammad Bin Ali, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Bin Khalaf who said, ‘We descended at a Masjid in the house well known as Al-Abbasiya, being upon two stops from the tent of Egypt, and my servants dispersed in the descending and a Persian slave remained with me in the Masjid. I saw in a corner, a Sheikh frequenting the Glorification (Tasbeeh). When the sun declined (midday), I knelt and prayed Al-Zohr Salat in the beginning of its timing, and I called for the meal and asked the Sheikh to partake with me. He answered me. When we had eaten, I asked him about his name and name of his father, and about his city and his craft. He mentioned that his name was Muhammad Bin Ubeydullah, and he was from the people of Qum, and he mentioned that he had been travelling for thirty years in search of the truth, and transferring from the cities and the coasts, and his homeland was Makkah and Al-Medina for approximately twenty years investigating the Ahadeeth and pursuing the tracks. When it was during the year two hundred and ninety-three (293), he performed Tawaaf of the House (Kabah), then he came to the standing place of Ibrahim-as. He knelt in it and his eyes were overcome. He was alerted by the voice of a supplication, nothing similar to it had been poured to his ears. He (the narrator) said, ‘I pondered on the supplicatory, and there, He-ajfj was a brown youth. I had not seen anyone of better face and even stature. Then he-ajfj prayed salat. He-ajfj went out and performed Sa’ee. I followed him-ajfj, and Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Caused to occur within myself that he-ajfj is Master-ajfj of the Time. When he-ajfj was free from his-ajfj Sa’ee, he-ajfj aimed to some of the youths. I aimed with him-ajfj in his-ajfj tracks. When I went near him-ajfj, there I was with a black man like the camel who blocked me. He shouted at me with a voice I had not heard, ‘Away from him-ajfj! What do you want? May Allah‑azwj Pardon you! ’ I trembled and stopped, and the person disappeared from my sight, and I remained bewildered. When the pausing and the bewilderment was prolonged with him, I left blaming myself and faulted my leaving by rebuking the black man. I isolated with my Lord-azwj Mighty and Majestic, supplicating to Him-azwj and asked Him-azwj by the right of His-azwj Rasool-saww and his-saww Progeny-asws not disappoint my Sa’ee (striving) and to Manifest to me what my heart had affirmed with, and there was an increase in my sight. When it was after years, I visited the grave of Al-Mustafa-saww. While I was in the shrine which is between the grave and the pulpit, when my eyes were overcome. There was a movement moving me. I woke up and there was the black man. He said, ‘What is your news, and how have you been? ’ I said, ‘I praise Allah-azwj and condemn you! ’
He said, ‘Don’t do so, for I had been ordered with what I had addressed you with, and you