The Twenty-Fifth Assembly, which was dictated to us in Tus in the Shrine of al-Rida `Ali b. Musa (s) on Friday, the Seventeenth of Dhul Hijja, 367 AH.

I heard Aba `Abdillah al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad (as) say: A man will appear from the descendants of my son Musa. His name is the name of Amir al-Mu’minin (as). He will be buried in the land of Tus, which is in Khurasan. He will be killed with poison therein, and he will be buried therein as a stranger. Whoever visits him, recognizing his right, Allah will give him the reward of one who goes toward the conquest and fights.

I heard the Deputy of Deputies and the Inheritor of the Knowledge of the Prophets Aba Ja`far Muhammad b. `Ali b. al-Husayn b. `Ali b. Abi Talib say: The Master of Worshipers `Ali b. al-Husayn narrated to me from the Master of Martyrs al-Husayn b. `Ali b. Abi Talib from the Master of Deputies Amir al-Mu’minin `Ali b. Abi Talib (as): The Messenger of Allah (s) said: A part of me will be buried in Khurasan. No afflicted person will visit it except that Allah will ease his affliction, and no sinner except that Allah forgives his sins.

I read in a letter of Abi’l Hasan al-Rida (as): Announce to my Shi`a that a visitation of me is considered by Allah to be equal to one thousand Hajj. He said: I said to Abi Ja`far [al-Jawad] (as): One thousand Hajj? He said: Yes, by Allah. One million Hajj for one who visits him recognizing his right.

I heard al-Rida (as) say: Not one of my supporters visits me, knowing my right, except that I will intercede for him on the Day of Resurrection.

`Abd al-Rahman b. Ishaq informed me from al-Nu`man b. Sa`d. He said: Amir al-Mu’minin `Ali b. Abi Talib (as) said: A man from my descendants will be killed oppressively with poison in the land of Khurasan. His name is my name, and the name of his father is the name of the son of `Imran, Musa (as). Surely, whoever visits him in his isolation, Allah will forgive his past and future sins, even if they are similar in number to the stars, rain droplets, and leaves on trees.

I heard Aba’l Hasan Musa b. Ja`far (as) say: Whoever visits the grave of my son `Ali (as) will have the reward of seventy accepted Hajj. I said: Seventy accepted Hajj? He said: Yes, even seventy thousand Hajj. I said: Seventy thousand accepted Hajj? He said: So, he said: Perhaps a Hajj is not accepted. Whoever visits him or spends a night [there] with him, it is as though he visits Allah at His Throne. I said: As though he visits Allah at His Throne? He said: Yes. On the Day of Resurrection, on the Throne of Allah, there will be four from the former peoples and four from the latter peoples. As for the former peoples, they are Nuh, Ibrahim, Musa, and `Isa. As for the latter peoples, they are Muhammad, `Ali, al-Hasan, and al-Husayn. Then, a rope will be extended, and those who visited the graves of the Imams will sit with us – but the highest of them in rank and the best of them in reward will be visitors of the grave of my son `Ali (as). The Shaykh and Jurist Abu Ja`far (rh) said: His (as) saying that “it is as though he visits Allah at His Throne” is not likening [Allah to His creation] (tashbih), because the angels visit the Throne, take shelter by it, circle around it, and they say: “We visit Allah at His Throne” – just as the people say: “We make pilgrimage to the House of Allah and we visit Allah” – not that Allah is described with a location, for He is high above that.

I heard Aba Ja`far Muhammad b. `Ali b. Musa (as) say: Whoever visits the grave of my father (as) in Tus, Allah will forgive his past and future sins. On the Day of Resurrection, a pulpit will be installed for him near the pulpit of the Messenger of Allah (s), until Allah finishes judging His servants.

Abu `Abdillah (as) said: My grandson will be killed in Khurasan in a land called Tus. Whoever visits him, recognizing his right, he will take him by the hand on the Day of Resurrection and bring him into Paradise, even if he is from the people of major sins. I said: May I be your ransom! What is recognition of his right? He said: To know that he is the Imam whose obedience is obligatory, and that he is a stranger and a martyr. Whoever visits him, recognizing his right, Allah will give him the reward of seventy martyrs who were martyred in front of the Messenger of Allah (s) in truth.

Muhammad b. Abi `Abdullah al-Kufi narrate to us from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Salih al-Razi from Hamdan al-Diwani. He said: Al-Rida (as) said: Whoever visits me despite the distance, I will meet him in three places on the Day of Resurrection so that I may deliver him from its terrors: (1) when the Book is given to his right and left hand, (2) at the Path, and (3) at the Scale.