Abu Ahmad bin Rashid

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Al-Kharaij: It is narrated from Abu Ahmad bin Rashid from some ofbrothers in faith from Madayan that he said:

“I was on a Hajj pilgrimage with some of my associates when we noticed a young man wearing a pair of trousers and a covering sheet and both were worth a hundred and fifty dinars according to our estimation. He was also wearing a pair of yellow slippers which were spotless. Meanwhile a beggar approached him and the young man picked up something and gave it to the beggar and the latter invoked exceeding blessings for him. After that the youth arose and went away from there and disappeared from sight.

We approached the beggar and asked him what that man had given tohim.

He replied: These pieces of gold.

We calculated that they must definitely weigh twenty mithqals. I said tomy companion: Our Imam is with us in the Hajj this year, but we have notrecognized him. Let us go and search for him.

We searched for him all over the area but could not find him and at lastreturned to our lodging. We asked those who had sat near him. They only told us that he was an Alawite young man who came to Hajj from Medina on foot every year.”

 Reference : Beharul anwar vol 51.52.53 , Part 1 , The Promised Mahdi