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Seventh: Reward Of Seventy Circumambulations Of Kaaba It is better than ten circumambulations of the Sacred House. It is mentioned in Usool Kafi through authentic chain of narrators from Aban bin Taghlib that he said: I heard His Eminence, Abu Abdillah Sadiq (as) say: “For one who performs seven rounds of Kaaba, Allah, the Mighty and Sublime writes 6000 rewards and six thousand of his sins are erased. Ishaq bin Ammar adds: And fulfills 6000 of his needs.

He said: Then Imam (as) said: Fulfilling the need of a believer is better than a round and another round… till he counted ten rounds.”[^5] Eighth: Reward Of Emancipating A Slave As mentioned in the same book through his own chain of narrators it is narrated from His Eminence, Abu Abdillah Sadiq (as) that he said: “And in my view going out to fulfill the needs of a Muslim is better than emancipating a thousand slaves or sending a thousand saddled and bridled horses in the path of Allah (Holy war).”[^6] In the same book through his own chain of narrators it is narrated from Muhammad bin Marwan from His Eminence, Abu Abdillah Sadiq (as) that he said: “For one who goes out to fulfill the need of his believer brother, ten rewards are noted and ten sins would be erased and he will be elevated ten ranks.

And except this I don’t know that he said: And this act is equal to emancipating ten slaves and better than ten months of Etekaf in the Masjidul Haraam.”[^7] I say: It is clear thus that the reward related to going out to help a believer, is for taking an initiative in this regard. Thus in fact, the reward is for this only. On the basis of this, the original reward of fulfilling the need of a believer would also be there for him although it will not stop at taking the initiative.

As for the difference with the previous tradition – in which the reward of Tawaf is mentioned – it can be due to difference in the levels of need or it can be due to difference in the levels of the believers.

Or it can be of the good deeds and sins or we can say that: The reward mentioned in the tradition is related to the prefaces and fulfillment of needs although the person does not actually fulfills the need and the reward that was mentioned in the previous tradition is with regard to the preface and also the fulfillment of the need. And Allah knows best and He is Knowing.

Ninth: Reward Of Sending A Thousand Saddled And Bridled Horses In The Path Of Allah, The Mighty And The High As was mentioned in the previous tradition.