So all the creatures would fall silent and the Holy Prophet...

So all the creatures would fall silent and the Holy Prophet (S) would arise and say: O gathering of creatures, anyone having a favor or a goodness upon me may please get up so that I can reward him. They would say: May our parents be sacrificed on you, what favors and acts of kindness? Allah and the Messenger of Allah (S) are having all rights, favors and good turns upon all the creatures.

He would say: All right, if anyone has given shelter to one of my family, or did them a good turn, or clothed or satiated their hunger, may please come forward so that I could reward him. At that moment some people who have performed such deeds would come forward. Then a voice would come from the Almighty Allah: O Muhammad, O My Friend, I give you the authority to reward them as you like. Give them whichever place you like in Paradise.

Thus he would give them a house in ‘ Waseela ’ such that their view will not be obstructed from Muhammad and his Ahle Bayt (as).”[^4] I say: Without any doubt, praying for well-being is a kind of a good turn, thus its effect on that supplicant is that he would become eligible for the intercession of the Messenger of Allah (S) on the Judgment Day. And this tradition also proves increase of rewards through intercession just as it proves removal of punishment.

Among the other proofs is a tradition that Shaykh Sadooq has mentioned in Amali from Imam Muhammad Baqir (as) from his forefathers from the Messenger of Allah (S) that he said: “One who wants to obtain my mediation and that he should have the right upon me to intercede for him on Judgment Day, it is necessary that he should always recite Salawaat for my family and please them.”[^5] I say: There is no doubt that all of Ahle Bayt (as) become pleased if you pray for the early reappearance of Hazrat Hujjat bin al-Hasan (as); rather it is possible that it could be a kind of attachment to them (think upon it).

[^1]: Al-Khisaal, Vol. 1, 196 [^2]: Al-Muntaha, Vol. 1, 544 [^3]: Biharul Anwar; Vol. 8, Pg. 49 [^4]: Al-Muntaha, Vol. 1, 544 [^5]: Amali, Sadooq, Gathering no. 60, Vol. 5, Pg. 310, Beirut Previous…