Anyone who recites poetry about Imam Ḥusayn (as) and tries to weep...

Anyone who recites poetry about Imam Ḥusayn (as) and tries to weep, will be rewarded with paradise." 7 Furthermore, in Kāmil al-Ziyarāt, it has been recorded that Imam al-Ṣadiq (as) said to Abu Harūn Makfūf8 : "O Abu Harūn!

If one recites an elegy about Ḥusayn (as) and makes ten people weep, paradise is for him." Then the Imam kept decreasing the number of people one by one until he reached one person and then said: "If one recites an elegy about Imam Ḥusayn (as) and makes one person weep, paradise is for him." 9 In the same book10 and as well as in Thawāb al-'Amāl it has been recorded that Imam al-Ṣadiq (as) said to Abu Harūn: "If one recites an elegy about Ḥusayn (as) and weeps and makes ten people weep, paradise is for them.

If one recites an elegy on Imam Ḥusayn (as) and weeps and makes five people weep, paradise is for them. If one recites an elegy on Imam Ḥusayn (as) and weeps and makes one person weep, paradise is for them." 11 Also in the same book and in Thawāb al-'Amāl, Sheikh Ṣadūq has recorded that Imam al-Ṣadiq (as) said to Ṣāliḥ ibn 'Uqba: "Whoever recites a verse of poetry about Ḥusayn (as) and weeps and makes ten people weep, paradise is for them.

Whoever recites a verse of poetry about Ḥusayn (as) and weeps and makes nine people weep, paradise is for them." Then he reduced the numbers until he said: "Whoever recites a verse of poetry about Ḥusayn (as) and weeps - (and the narrator says that he thinks the Imam (as) said: or he makes a sad face) - paradise is for him." 12 Sayyid 'Ali ibn Tāūs in his book Lahūf, has said: “It has been reported from the progeny of the Prophet (pbuh) that: "Whoever weeps over us and makes one-hundred people weep, paradise is for him.

And whoever weeps over us and makes fifty people weep, paradise is for him. And whoever weeps and makes thirty people weep, paradise is for him. And whoever weeps and makes ten people weep, paradise is for him.