Sayyid Ali bin Muhammad bin Ja’far bin Tawus Hasani has stated in hisRabiul Albab that Hasan bin Muhammad Qasim narrated to him as follows:
Once he and a person named Ammar who was an inhabitant of Kufawere traveling out of Kufa on way to Hamalaya and they began to discussabout Imam Qaim Aale Muhammad (a.s.). He said: O Hasan, let me narratean incident.
A caravan of the Tai tribe arrived and purchased from us goods in Kufa. There was a handsome man in that group and he was their leader. I told a man
who sat at my shop to go to such and such Alawite and borrow the scale for me.
The Bedouin asked: “Do Alawites also live here?”
I replied: “What do you mean? The majority of the Alawites live in thisregion.”
That Bedouin said: “I have left the real Alawite at such and such place in the desert behind me.”
I asked: “Please explain to me who that is?”
He replied: “Once we three hundred riders came out to commit robberies and roamed about for three day without any food and water; but we could notfind anything. At last we decided to draw lots and whoever’s name is drawn,we will slaughter and eat his horse. All accepted this proposal, but when thelots were drawn, my name was drawn. I said: You have not drawn in the rightway. Thus it was drawn again and again my name came up. I rejected thatdraw also. Lots were drawn for the third time and then also my name cameup. Actually my horse was worth more than a thousand dinars and I valued itmore than my children.
I asked them to excuse me for sometime and spurred my horse and rodeto a sand dune at a distance of one Farsakh from there. I saw a slave girlbelow that dune, picking dry twigs.
I approached her and asked: Who are you and to which family do youbelong?
She replied: I am a slave girl of an Alawite gentleman who resides in this valley.
I returned to my associates and said: You may rejoice now, some peoplereside in the nearby valley. Let us go there immediately.
When we rode to that valley, we found a tent pitched in the center and ahandsome young man emerged and greeted us warmly. I said: “Arab brother,we are extremely thirsty.” He called for water immediately.
The maid brought two bowls of water. The man put his hand in them,one after another and passed them to us. The water was enough to quench thethirst of all of us. When we returned the bowl they were full to the brim andnot a drop had reduced. After quenching our thirst we said that we were alsohungry.
He went into the tent and returned with a basket of food. He placed hishand over it and said: Ten persons should eat at a time. We did that and allwere satiated without causing any decrease in food. Then we asked him fordirections and he obliged. After traveling for sometime, we said to each other: We had left our families to commit robberies; since now we are refreshed, let us stick to our original plans. So we turned back to rob the man who had given us food and water. When that young man saw us returning, he armed himself and mounted a red horse. Then he marched in our direction and sternly said: Don’t move a step with ulterior motives.
We were awestruck and we stepped back. Then he drew a line betweenus and said: I swear by my grandfather, the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.s.) thatI will strike off the head of anyone who crossed this line.
We returned from there in bewilderment and that man was a real Alawiteand not like these Shia people.”
Reference : Beharul anwar vol 51.52.53 , Part 1 , The Promised Mahdi