Hadith 53

(The book) ‘Ghayba’ of the sheykh, and ‘Falah Al Sa’il’ – from Ibn Nuh, from Hibatullah Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Abu Jeyyid Al Qummi, from Ali Bin Ahmad Al Dallas who said, ‘One day I entered to see Abu Ja’far Muhammad Bin Usman, meaning representative of our Master-ajfj Al-Mahdi-ajfj, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon him-la, may Allah-azwj Hasten his‑ajfj relief, in order to greet unto him. I found a lath (wooden tablet), and an engraver was engraving upon it and writing upon it, Verses from the Quran and names of the Imams-asws from its sides. I said to him, ‘O my master! What is this lath? ’
He said to me, ‘This is for my grave to be in it. I shall be placed upon it’ – or said, ‘I shall be leaned to it, and I am free from it, and every day I descend to it and read parts of the Quran in it, and I ascend’. And I think he said, ‘And he held my hand and showed it’. ‘When it is going to be such and such day, from such and such month, from such and such year, I shall go to Allah-azwj the Exalted, and will be buried in it, and this lath will be with me’. He (the narrator) said, ‘When I went out from his presence, I affirmed what he had mentioned and did not cease to wait for that. The matter was not delay until Abu Ja’far became sick. He died during the day which he had mentioned, from the month which he had said, from the year which he had mentioned, and was buried’’. [72]