On entering the place...
On entering the place, al-Sayyid al-Murtaza stood to welcome me, asking me to be seated beside Muhammad ibn Makki (al-Shahid al-’Awwal), and so I did. Then I waked up from sleep, never considering myself but a martyr.[^8] On the Mediterranean Shores It is reported from al-Shaykh al-Baha’i that when his father was once walking with his teacher, al-Shahid, on the Mediterranean shore; suddenly al-Shahid’s lineaments were changed as if he were witnessing a disaster before him.
When asked by his disciple about the reason behind that, al-Shahid replied: At this place a great man will be verily killed. In the treatise named Masa’il al-Sayyid Badr al-Din Aasan al-Ausayni , which contained the questions put forth by that Sayyid to al-Shaykh Husayn `Abd al-Samad (al Shahid’s disciple), the following question was cited:[^9] “It is reported that you were once in the company of al-Shahid in Istanbul, whereat he said to you: Soon, a great man will be murdered in this place.