The venerable Sayyid Ali Khan, son of the veracious Khalaf
ibn Sayyid Abdul Muttalib Musavi Mashashi Hawezi, says in the
book of Khairul Maqaal under the narratives of those who saw
the Imam (a.s.) in occultation. Among those anecdotes is one,
which a man of faith told him from someone he trusted that he
performed Hajj with a group from Ahsa in a little caravan. When
they returned, there was a man with him who sometimes walked
and sometimes rode.
It so happened that on one stage, the halt was longer than
usual and no mount was available for that man. So they alighted
to sleep and to take a brief rest. After that they moved on from
there.
Due to fatigue that man did not wake up. Those people also
did not wake him up till the heat of the sun awakened him. When
he awoke, he did not see anyone there.
He started walking and was certain of his death. So he
implored His Eminence, Mahdi (a.s.).
He was in this condition when he saw a man riding a shecamel
dressed like a nomad Arab. He said: O so and so, have you
been left behind your caravan?
I: Yes!
He said: Would you like me to join you to your comrades?
Said I: By God, that is my wish and nothing else.
He said: Come near me and he lowered his camel, make me
mount behind him and set out from there.
We hardly moved for a few steps that we reached there.
When we were near, he said: These are your comrades. Then
he left me and went away.
Behaarul Anwaar, vol. 53, p. 299