It is the anecdote of the pious scholar Akhund Mulla
Muhammad Taqi Majlisi, which was hinted at in the words of
Shaykh Allamah Abul Hasan Sharif and he did not mention its
details and it is apparent that his implication was the anecdote,
which that late scholar has mentioned in the fourth volume of the
exegesis of Man Laa Yahzarahul Faqeeh under the account of Mutawakkil bin Umair, the narrator of Saheefah Kaamelah
Sajjadiah and it is that he said:
In my early adulthood, I was seeking the pleasure of God
and had no peace till I did not mention him until I saw the Imam
standing in Masjid Ateeq in Isfahan near the door of Tanabi, who
is my teacher at present.
I saluted His Eminence and intended to kiss his blessed feet.
He did not allow me to do this. He caught hold of me; so I kissed
his blessed hand and asked from him about some difficult
problems, one of them being that I was having satanic doubts in
my prayers and that I was busy in lapsed prayer and had not the
honor of praying the Shab Prayer and I asked about its rule from
my teacher, Shaykh Bahauddin.
He said: Recite one set of midday (Zuhr), evening
(Maghrib) and late evening (Isha) prayer with the intention of
Namaz Shab. I did the same.
So I asked the Hujjat if I could pray Namaz Shab.
He replied: Pray the Namaz Shab in place of that supposed
Prayer, which you pray and other problems like this, which I
don’t remember now.
Then I said: O my Lord! It is not possible for me to reach to
your service all the time; so grant a book to me; that I may
always act on it.
He said: I have given such a book to Maulana Muhammad
Taj and I recognized him in his dream.
Then he said: Go and get the book from him.
So I went out to the Masjid, which was in the front of His Eminence in the direction of Dare Batiq, a locality of Isfahan.
When I met that man, he asked: Has the Master of Age sent
you to me?
I said: Yes.
Then he brought out an old book. When I opened it I saw
that it was a prayer book. I kissed it and placed it on his eyes.
Then I turned to Imam (a.s.) when I awoke. That book was not
there with me. I started crying and moaning for the loss of the
book till dawn break.
When I concluded the prayer and the post prayer litanies it
occurred to me that Maulana Muhammad is the same Shaykh
Bahai and the Imam named him Taj due to his fame among
scholars. So I went to his teacher, who was in the vicinity of the
mosque. I saw that he was engrossed in comparing Saheefah
Kaamelah and his reader was Amir Zulfiqar Golpayegani.
So I sat there for hours till he finished that work and it
appeared that the discussion was regarding the chain of narrators
of Saheefah, but due to the sorrow, which had overtaken me, I
did not understand their statements and I continued to weep.
After that I went to the teacher and narrated my dream to him and
wept.
The teacher said: Glad tidings to you for divine sciences and
certainty of cognition and all that which you wanted.
Most of my conversations with the Shaykh was regarding
gnosticism and he was inclined to it. But my heart was not
satisfied and I went out weeping and contemplation till it
occurred to me that I should go in the direction in which I had gone in the dream.
When I reached the Dar Batiq locality I saw a noble man
named Agha Hasan Saaleh, nicknamed Taj. So I went to him and
saluted him.
He said: O so and so, the books of Waqifiyya are with me as
every student, who takes it does not act on the conditions of
Waqaf, and you act upon it. Come and see these books and you
can take whatever you like.
So I went with him to his library. The book he gave me first
of all was the book I had seen in dream.
I started weeping and wailing and said: This suffices me and
I don’t remember whether I mentioned my dream to him.
I came to the teacher and started comparing it with the
version that the grandfather of his father had written with the
copy that the martyr (r.a.) had written on the version of the
Amidur Ruasa and Ibne Sukoon and had compared it with the
copy of Ibne Idris, without intermediaries or one intermediary
version and the version that Imam Zamana (a.s.) had given to me.
It was written in the script of the Martyr and was very much in
agreement with that version. Even in the versions, in which
marginal notes were written. After I finished comparing, people
started comparing with my version and through the blessings of
Hujjat (a.s.) Saheefah Kaamelah became popular like the brilliant
sun in Isfahan region, because many versions of the Saheefah are
extant and most of the supplications are answered. And this is a
miracle of Hazrat Sahibuz Zamaan (a.s.) and that which the
Almighty Allah bestowed to me due to the Saheefah; whose importance I cannot calculate
Behaarul Anwaar, vol. 53, pp. 276-278