Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Virtue and Excellence of Visiting abu ‘Abd Allah, al-Husayn, ‘Alayhi al-Salam 8ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ ٠َّدٍ عَنْ أَبِي دَاوُدَ الْ٠ُسْتَرِقِّ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ ٠ُثَنًّى الْحَنَّاطِ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الأَوَّلِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠ِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ ٠َنْ أَتَى الْحُسَيْنَ عَارِفاً بِحَقِّهِ غَفَرَ الله لَهُ ٠8.

Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from Mu‘alla’ ibn Muhammad from abu Dawud al-Mustariq from certain individuals of our people from Muthanna al-Hannat who has said the following: “I once heard abu al-Hassan, the 1st, Alayhi al-Salam, say, ‘Whoever visits al-Husayn (a.s.), with proper understanding of his rights, Allah forgives his sins of the past and those that come later.’” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (18/309))