An elderly man narrated from Ali bin Ibrahim Fadki that Oodi said...

An elderly man narrated from Ali bin Ibrahim Fadki that Oodi said: “I was performing the Tawaf of the Kaaba. I had completed six rounds and was starting on the seventh when I saw a young man on the right side of the Kaaba and fragrance was coming from him. His awe had affected the people and they had surrounded him so that they may speak to him. I have not heard anyone speak in a more pleasant way nor seen anyone with a better demeanor.

I also went there so that I may also get a chance to speak to him, but the crowd pushed me back. I asked the people who he was. People said he is son of Allah’s Messenger, who comes here for one day every year to meet his special followers and speak to them. I called out: My chief, I also want to speak to you so that you may guide me. When he heard this he threw some pebbles towards me which I picked up. People asked: What did he throw towards you? I said: Pebbles.

And I opened my fist but saw that they were pieces of gold. I began to follow him till I joined him. He said: Now my proof is complete on you, the truth has become manifest and your blindness is gone. Do you know who I am? I said: No, by Allah. He said: I am the same Mahdi. I am the Qaim who would fill the earth with justice and equity as it would be fraught with injustice and tyranny. Know that the earth is never without Divine Proof.

And people cannot remain on nature for more than the period Bani Israel remained in the Tiyah desert (forty years). The time of my reappearance has arrived. What I have said is a trust with you, which you must convey to your Shia brothers.” This traditional report is also mentioned in the Kharaij of Fadaki and in Ikmaaluddin narrated from Taliqani quoting from Ali bin Ahmad Khadiji Kufi from Azdi.

The author says: “The time of my reappearance has arrived” is perhaps statement in which Bada has occurred and His Eminence (a.s.) has informed about a matter, which was not definite and was subject to condition. And it is possible that ‘reappearance’ implies the matter becoming clear to the people through the envoys of His Eminence (a.s.).

An elderly man in Fustat City 2- Ghaibat Tusi: From the same chains, it is narrated from Ahmad bin Ali Raazi from Muhammad bin Ali from Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Khalaf that he said: “We went the Abbasid Mosque, which is at a distance of two stages from Fustat and our servants left us alone. Only a Persian was left with us in the Mosque.