Al-Kafi · Hadith 5

The Book on Dying People · The Virtue (Reward) of Visiting a Patient · Volume 3, book 3, chapter 8, Hadith 5

Original Arabic text

5ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ الْجَمَّالِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) قَالَ مَنْ عَادَ مَرِيضاً مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَكَّلَ الله بِهِ أَبَداً سَبْعِينَ أَلْفاً مِنَ الْمَلاَئِكَةِ يَغْشَوْنَ رَحْلَهُ وَيُسَبِّحُونَ فِيهِ وَيُقَدِّسُونَ وَيُهَلِّلُونَ وَيُكَبِّرُونَ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ نِصْفُ صَلاَتِهِمْ لِعَائِدِ الْمَرِيضِ.

Published English translation

5. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah from ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn abu Najran from Safwan al- Jammal who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that if one visits a Muslim patient, Allah assigns seventy thousand angels who come to his house saying Tasbih, Taqdis, Tahlil and Takbir up to the Day of Judgment. Half of their Salah (prayer) is for the visitor of the patient.”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: صحيح

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/274)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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