Al-Kafi · Hadith 8

The Book of Belief and Disbelief · Visiting Brothers (in belief) · Volume 2, book 1, chapter 77, Hadith 8

Original Arabic text

8ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ النَّهْدِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ مَنْ زَارَ أَخَاهُ فِي الله وَلله جَاءَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَخْطُرُ بَيْنَ قَبَاطِيَّ مِنْ نُورٍ وَلا يَمُرُّ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ إِلا أَضَاءَ لَهُ حَتَّى يَقِفَ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَيَقُولُ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَهُ مَرْحَباً وَإِذَا قَالَ مَرْحَباً أَجْزَلَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَهُ الْعَطِيَّةَ.

Published English translation

8. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Ali ibn al-Nahdi from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “If one visits his brother (in belief) due to Allah’s relation and for the sake of Allah, on the Day of Judgment he will come, walking elegantly in a Coptic gown of light and will not pass by anything but that it will shine until he will come before Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, and Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, will say, ‘Welcome.’ When He will say welcome. He, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, will make his reward very handsome.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/57)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: Catalogue non-inclusion note (not an authenticity grade)

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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