Ayatullah Sayyid Gulpaygani & burial place

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One of the relatives of Ayatullah Sayyid Ridha Gulpaygani narrates:

‘Sayyid [Gulpaygani] contacted us some hours before his death from his hospital bed. He said, “It seems that the doctors will not be successful in curing me. Go and search the earth opposite my teacher, Ayatullah Abd al-Karim al-Ha’iri in the haram of Lady Fatimah Ma’sumah al-Qom. You will find a space there for me.

‘I replied, “You will live long, God-willing, and return to us in good health!”

‘Ayatollah Gulpaygani responded, “No. Go to the place I have mentioned and prepare it; it may be something will happen.”

‘We went to the place and we dug the place and we didn’t expect to find any space that was empty as we knew the spaces were all already occupied by great jurists and scholars. But to our surprise, we found a space never touched and it appeared exactly two meters long as if it had already been prepared! We touched the soil and found no evidence of anyone being buried there before.”

THE WAYS OF THE RIGHTEOUS by Shaikh Jaffer Ladak