Sayyid Mahdi Qazwini, resident of the Hilla Saifiya said:
It is narrated from my spiritual father and biological uncle,
the late Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Qazwini, who was
previously mentioned in the third and the thirteenth incident that:
In 1186 A.H. there was a terrible epidemic of plague in Iraq, in
which such was the condition of Najaf that people left the town
and great scholars and even Allamah Tabatabai and the author of
Kashful Ghita also left the place. A large number of people
perished and only very few survived. Every day I used to sit in
the holy courtyard and there was no one present there from the
seekers of knowledge. During that time I met in the lanes of
Najaf, a very respectable gentleman, whom I had neither seen
before not afterwards, in spite of the fact that the population of
Najaf had become so restricted that no one from outside could
enter the place. Thus, that gentleman looked at me and asked:
You will be bestowed the knowledge of monotheism after some days. Then I dreamt that two angels had arrived and one of them
was holding inscribed tablets and the other one was holding a
balance. They had placed those tablets in the pans and the tablets
that were weighed they placed before me and read them. So
much so, this was conducted with all the tablets. I saw that the
beliefs of all the companions of the Prophet (a.s.) and the
companions of the Holy Imams (a.s.) were weighed against the
beliefs of Imamiyah scholars. Among whom were included
everyone from Salman Farsi to Abu Zar Ghiffari till the four
special deputies of Imam Zamana (a.s.): Usmaan bin Saeed,
Muhammad bin Usmaan, Husain bin Rauh and Ali Ibne
Muhammad Saymoori; Mulla Yaqub Kulaini, Shaykh Saduq,
Ibne Babawayh, his father, Shaykh Mufeed, Abu Ja’far
Muhammad bin Noman, Sayyid Murtaza Alamul Huda and
Shaykhut Taifa Abu Ja’far Toosi; till my uncle, Sayyid Bahrul
Uloom Allamah Tabatabai and all the scholars after him were
included. On seeing this dream, I became informed about the
beliefs of all those gentlemen and I became aware of such
academic secrets that I was given an age equal to Prophet Nuh
(a.s.), and I had spent all the time in acquiring knowledge, I
would not have been able to obtain the tenth part of it. When I
rose up in the morning, I was most learned man of my time. I
woke up, prayed and then completed the post prayer recitations.
There was a knock at the door. The maid went to open it and
brought a paper, which a brother in faith Shaykh Abdul Husain
had sent. It contained some couplets in my praise, which were a
brief interpretation of that dream. In other words, among the
beliefs that I learnt about, was the belief of my later maternal
uncle, Allamah Bahrul Uloom, which was compared to some special companions of the Prophet. But all these are confidential
matters, which cannot be divulged and everyone cannot bear
them. On the contrary, that late gentleman had taken oath from
me not to reveal them. Thus, my dream is the result of that order
of that gentleman, whom I met in a lane of Najaf and according
to whom the contexts prove that he was Hazrat Hujjat (a.s.).
NAJMUS SAAQIB Incident Ninety-two: Imam (a.s.) advises Agha Sayyid Baqir Qazwini
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