Mohaddis Jalil, Shaykh Hurre Amili, says in the book of
Isbaatul Hodaatat bil Nusus wal Mozijaat1: A group of our
reliable companions informed me that they saw Saahebul Amr
(a.s.) in wakefulness and saw from him numerous miracles and
he informed them of the hidden matters and prayed for them
prayers, which were answered and which saved them from
serious dangers.
He said: We were sitting in our village of Mashghra on a
day of day festive congregation of students and religious
scholars. I said to them: I wish I knew which of us would be alive
from this group in the following Eid and who all would be dead.
A man named Shaykh Muhammad, who was our classmate,
said: I know that I will be alive the coming Eid, and the next Eid,
and so on till twenty-six years and it was apparent that he was
serious in this claim.
I asked: Do you have the knowledge of the unseen?
He said: No, but I saw Mahdi (a.s.) in sleep, when I was
seriously ill and fearing that I would die in that condition while I
do not have any notable good in my account to meet the
Almighty Allah with it. He said: Do not be afraid, because God
will heal you and you will not die from this disease, you will live
for twenty-six years. Then he gave me a cup and I drank from it
and my sickness was healed, and I know that it was not an act of
the Satan.
When I heard this statement from that man I noted that date
and the year was 1049. Later I moved to Mashad Muqaddas in
the year 1072. At the end of the year it occurred to me that a long
time has passed. So I referred to that date and calculated and saw
that twenty-six years have passed since then. So I said to myself:
That man must be dead. After a month or two, a letter came from
one of my brothers who lived in that area who informed me about
the passing away of that man.
Isbaatul Hodaat bin Nosoos wal Mo’jizaat, vol. 3, pp. 712-713