Hadith 88

(The book) ‘Al Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub –
‘Askar a slave of Abu Ja’far-asws said: ‘I entered to see him-asws. I said within myself, ‘O Glory be to Allah-azwj! How bright is the tan of my Master-asws and how illuminating is his-asws body’. He (the narrator) said, ‘By Allah-azwj! The speech had not even completed within myself, until he-asws stood up and presented his-asws body, and filled up the hall with it to the roof, and along with the sides of its walls. Then I saw his-asws colour to have darkened until it became like the dark night. Then white, until it became like as white as it can be, more than the snow. Then red, until it became like the clot left by the leeches. Then green, until it became like as green as could be from the branches, the green leaves. Then his-asws body waned until it became like its former image and his-asws colour returned to the former state, and I fell down to my face from what I had seen. He-asws shouted at me: ‘O Askar! If you complain, we-asws shall inform you, and (if) you are weak, we-asws shall strengthen you. By Allah-azwj! No one will (be able to) arrive to the reality of our-asws recognition except the one Allah-azwj has Conferred upon him through us-asws and has Selected him for us-asws as a friend! ’’[94]
Bunan Bin Nafie who said, ‘I asked Ali-asws Bin Musa Al-Reza-asws. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! Who is the Master-asws of the command after you-asws? ’
He-asws said to me: ‘O Ibn Nafie! There shall be entering from this door, one who will be in inheriting what I-asws had inherited from the one who was before me-asws, and he-asws is Divine Authority of Allah-azwj the Exalted, from after me-asws’. While I was like that when Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws entered to see us. When he-asws sighted me, he-asws said to me: ‘O Ibn Nafie! Shall I narrate to you with a Hadeeth? We-asws, community of the Imams-asws, when his-asws mother-as bears him-asws, hears his-asws voice in the belly of his-asws mother-as for forty days. When four months come for him-asws in the belly of his-asws mother-as, Allah-azwj the Exalted Raises for him-asws, the flags of the earth. He-azwj Draws near for him-asws whatever is far away from him-asws until neither the permeation of a drop of beneficial rain is not hidden from him-asws, nor a harmful one. And your words to Abu Al-Hassan-asws, ‘Who is the Divine Authority of the time and the era from after him-asws’, the one whom Abu A