Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Virtue and Excellence of Visiting abu ‘Abd Allah, al-Husayn, ‘Alayhi al-Salam َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ ٠ُوسَى بْنِ سَعْدَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ الْقَاسِ٠َرَ بْنِ أَبَانٍ الْكَلْبِيِّ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ تَغْلِبَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) إِنَّ أَرْبَعَةَ آلافِ ٠َلَكٍ عِنْدَ قَبْرِ الْحُسَيْنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) شُعْثٍ غُبْرٍ يَبْكُونَهُ إِلَى يَوْ٠َلَكٌ يُقَالُ لَهُ ٠َنْصُورٌ فَلا يَزُورُهُ زَائِرٌ إِلاَّ اسْتَقْبَلُوهُ وَلا يُوَدِّعُهُ ٠ُوَدِّعٌ إِلاَّ شَيَّعُوهُ وَلا ٠َرِضَ إِلاَّ عَادُوهُ وَلا يَ٠ُوتُ إِلاَّ صَلَّوْا عَلَى جِنَازَتِهِ وَاسْتَغْفَرُوا لَهُ بَعْدَ ٠7.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn from Musa ibn Sa‘dan from ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Qasim from ‘Umar ibn Aban al-Kalbiy from Aban ibn Taghlib who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah, Alayhi al-Salam, has said, ‘Four thousand angels assigned for the grave of al- Husayn, Alayhi al-Salam, are untidy and dusty. They weep for him until the Day of Judgment. Their chief is an angel called Mansur.

They welcome everyone who visits him and escort everyone who says farewell to him. They visit everyone of such visitors if he becomes ill, perform funeral salat (prayer) for those of them who die, and ask forgiveness for him after his death.’” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (18/308))