قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ الْأَوَّلِ ( عليه السلام ) يَزُورُ الْمُؤْمِنُ أَهْلَهُ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ فَقُلْتُ فِي كَمْ قَالَ عَلَى قَدْرِ فَضَائِلِهِمْ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَزُورُ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَزُورُ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمَيْنِ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَزُورُ فِي كُلِّ ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ قَالَ ثُمَّ رَأَيْتُ فِي مَجْرَى كَلَامِهِ أَنَّهُ يَقُولُ أَدْنَاهُمْ مَنْزِلَةً يَزُورُ كُلَّ جُمْعَةٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ فِي أَيِّ سَاعَةٍ قَالَ عِنْدَ زَوَالِ الشَّمْسِ وَ مِثْلِ ذَلِكَ قَالَ قُلْتُ فِي أَيِّ صُورَةٍ قَالَ فِي صُورَةِ الْعُصْفُورِ أَوْ أَصْغَرَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَيَبْعَثُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى مَعَهُ مَلَكاً فَيُرِيهِ مَا يَسُرُّهُ وَ يَسْتُرُ عَنْهُ مَا يَكْرَهُ فَيَرَى مَا يَسُرُّهُ وَ يَرْجِعُ إِلَى قُرَّةِ عَيْنٍ .
Translation
From him, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Is’haq Bin Ammar who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup> the 1<sup>st</sup>, ‘Does the (deceased) Believer visit his family?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Yes’. So I said, ‘How often?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Upon a measurement of their merits. From them is one who visits during every day, and from them is one who visits during every two days, and from them is one who visits during every three days’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then I saw in the flow of his<sup>asws</sup> speech and he<sup>asws</sup> is saying: ‘The lowest of them (in status) visits every Friday’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘During which time?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘At the (start of the) decline of the sun, and the likes of that’. I said, ‘In which image?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘In the image of the sparrows, or smaller than that. So Allah<sup>azwj</sup> the High Sends two Angels with him, so they show him what delights him and veil from him what he dislikes. Thus, he sees what makes him joyful and returns with delighted eyes’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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