Ja`far b. Muhammad narrated to us. He said: Al-Husayn b. Muhammad narrated to us from his uncle `Abdullah b. `Amer from Sulayman b. Hafs al-Maruzi. He said: I heard Aba’l Hasan Musa b. Ja`far say:

Whoever visits the grave of my son `Ali 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 . The Shaykh and Jurist Abu Ja`far said: His 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.