Hadith 55

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘And it is reported in one of the compilations of our companions, from Al Husayn Bin Hamdan, from Abu Muhammad Isa Bin Mahdy Al Jowhari who said, ‘I went out in the year two hundred and sixty-eight to perform Hajj, and my aim was Al-Medina when it was proven correct in our view that Master-ajfj of the Time had appeared. I fell ill and we had gone out from Feyd. My soul desired the fish and the dates. When I arrived at Al-Medina and I met my brethren at it, they indicted to me with his-ajfj appearance at Sabir. So I went to Sabir. When I overlooked upon the valley, I saw lean goats. I entered the castle. I paused watching out for the matter until I prayed the two Isha Salats, and I was supplicating and beseeching, and asking. There I was with Badri the servant shouting at me, ‘O Isa Bin Mahdi Al-Jowhari, enter! ’ I exclaimed Takbeer, and extolled the Oneness, and frequented from the Praises of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and the extollations upon Him-azwj. When I came to be in the courtyard of the castle, I saw table meal having been installed. The servant passed by me and seated me, and said to me, ‘Your Master-ajfj instruct you to eat whatever you desired in your illness, and you have come out from Feyd’. I said, ‘I am sufficed with this as proof. How can I eat, and I have not seen my chief and my Master-ajfj? ’
He-ajfj called out, ‘I Isa! Eat from your meal for you will see me-ajfj at the meal! ’ I looked and there was hot fish upon it spurting, and dates to its side. The dates resembled with our dates, and by the side of the dates there was milk. I said within myself, ‘An illness, and fish and dates and milk? ’ He-ajfj called out at me: ‘O Isa! Are you doubting regarding our-ajfj matter? Are you are more knowing with what benefits you and harms you! ’
I wept and sought Forgiveness of Allah-azwj the Exalted, and I a