Al-Kafi · Hadith 15

The Book of Belief and Disbelief · Visiting Brothers (in belief) · Volume 2, book 1, chapter 77, Hadith 15

Original Arabic text

15ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا حَمْزَةَ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ الْعَبْدَ الصَّالِحَ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ مَنْ زَارَ أَخَاهُ الْمُؤْمِنَ لله لا لِغَيْرِهِ يَطْلُبُ بِهِ ثَوَابَ الله وَتَنَجُّزَ مَا وَعَدَهُ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَكَّلَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِهِ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ مَلَكٍ مِنْ حِينِ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ مَنْزِلِهِ حَتَّى يَعُودَ إِلَيْهِ يُنَادُونَهُ أَلا طِبْتَ وَطَابَتْ لَكَ الْجَنَّةُ تَبَوَّأْتَ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ مَنْزِلاً.

Published English translation

15. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from abu Ayyub who has said the following: “I heard abu Hamza saying, T heard the good servant (of Allah) saying, “Whoever visits his believing brother (in belief) for the sake of Allah and for no other reason, seeking thereby the reward from Allah, the promise of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, will come true and Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, will appoint seventy thousand angels, from the time he leaves his home to the time he returns home, applaud behind him, ‘How beautiful is your deed! How beautiful is paradise for you! You have found a dwelling in paradise.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: حسن كالصحيح

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/60)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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