Al-Kafi 8187

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Salma Bin Al Khattab, from Abdullah Bin Al Khattab,f rom Abdullah Bin Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Misma’a, from Yunus Bin Abdul Rahman, from Hanaan, from his father who said, ‘Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘O Sadeyr! Do you visit the grave of Al-Husayn every day?’ I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws, No’ .He^asws said: ‘So how discourteous you are. So, do you visit it every Friday?’ I said, ‘No’. He^asws said: ‘So do you visit it every month?’ I said, ‘No’. He^asws said: ‘So do you visit it every year?’ I said, ‘That some (years) may happen to be’. He^asws said: ‘O Sadeyr! How discourteous of you towards Al-Husayn^asws. Do you not know that Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic has two million Angels, dishevelled, dusty, crying and performing his^asws <span class="iTxt">Ziyarah</span>, not wavering. And it is not (difficult) upon you, O Sadeyr, that you should be visiting the grave of Al-Husayn^asws five times every week, and once every day’.  I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! In between us and him^asws there are a lot of Farsakhs (travel distance)’. So he^asws said to me: ‘Ascend above your roof, then turn towards the right and the left, then raise your head towards the sky, then face towards the grave and you should be saying: السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَ بَرَكَاتُهُ ‘The greetings be upon you^asws, O Abu Abdullah^asws! The greetings be upon you^asws, and the Mercy of Allah^azwj, and His^azwj Blessings’ – there would be Written for you a <span class="iTxt">Ziyarah</span>, and the <span class="iTxt">Ziyarah</span> of the Hajj, and Umra’. Sadeyr said, ‘So I used to do it during the month, more than twenty times’.

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