In this chapter Janab Muhaddith Noori (ra) 100 incidents of contact with Imam Mahdi (a.t.f.s) in the major occultation. For the sake of brevity we are just mentioning 5 of these incidences in our excerpts. Today we present the fourth of these five.

*4. Helping the lost Haji* [Incident 69 of chapter 7]

It is also mentioned in the book *"Khairul Maqaal"* : A believer from our native place, named Shaykh Muhammad Qasim, who had performed many Hajj pilgrimages, narrated that once during the journey to Hajj after being extremely exhausted he went to sleep under a tree and continued to sleep till the pilgrims moved on leaving him
alone there. He says:

_"When I awoke I realized that they have gone very far. I did not know the route. At last I turned in one direction and beseeched the Saahebul Amr as follows: O Aba Saaleh, O Aba Saaleh as Ibne Taaoos has mentioned the method of beseeching the Imam when one has lost the way in the book of Amaan. So I was beseeching in that manner when suddenly I saw a gentleman approach dressed in Arab garments and astride a she-camel. He said: You have separated from the Hajis, come, mount behind me so that I may convey you to them. So I mounted behind and caught up with the caravan shortly. He made me dismount near it and said: Go on. I said that I was feeling very thirsty. He gave me his water skin and I drank from it. By God, it was strange sweet and delicious water. When I joined the caravan, I looked around but after that I could not see him._

*May the Almighty quench our thirst from the water offered by Hazrat Mahdi (atfs).*