The Visitors Who Came After His Burial

زواري كه بعد از دفن به زيارت آمدند

اشاره

باب دوازدهم:، در زواري كه بعد از دفن به زيارت آمدند، و آن چند نوع است: بعضي مستمرا تا روز قيامت هر شب و هر روز مشغول زيارت هستند، و آن ملائكه است به تفصيلي كه گذشت.و بعضي در وقت معين هميشه زيارت مي‌كنند، مانند انبياء و اوصياء كه در هر شب [ صفحه 327] جمعه زيارتش مي‌نمايند، بلكه خداوند متعال در هر شب جمعه افاضه‌ي رحمت خاصه بر او مي‌فرمايد. [976] .و همه‌ي انبياء در شب نيمه‌ي شعبان [977] ، و در شب قدر به زيارت او مي‌آيند هر سال [978] ، وجبرئيل و ميكائيل در اوقات مخصوصه زيارتش مي‌كنند. [979] .و اول كسي كه در اين نشأت به زيارتش آمد، سيدالساجدين (عليه‌السلام) بود كه بعد از سه روز به دفن او حاضر شد با جماعت بني‌اسد به تفصيلي كه بيايد (ان شاء الله).پس قبر را تسويه نمود، و زيارت كرد پدر بزرگوارش را به سلام مخصوصي، و بعد از آن جناب طوائف و عشاير كه در اطراف كربلا بودند، به زيارتش آمدند، حتي اينكه در روايتي است كه در عرض يكسال يا بيشتر صد هزار زن به زيارتش آمدند. [980] .و بعد از چند روز عقبة ابن عمرو سهمي به زيارتش آمد و اشعاري در مرثيه‌اش انشاد كرد، و اول شاعري بود كه مرثيه گفت از براي آن جناب چنانكه بعضي گفته‌اند. [981] .و اول كسي كه از بلاد بعيده به زيارتش آمد، جابر بن عبدالله انصاري بود، كه از براي زيارتش كيفيت مخصوصي است، كه بيايد (ان شاء الله) [982] .

The Visitors Who Came After His Burial

Indication

Chapter Twelve: Concerning those visitors who came to visit him after his burial.

They are of several kinds:

Some continuously remain occupied with visiting him every night and every day until the Day of Judgment, and these are the angels, according to the details mentioned earlier.

And some visit him at fixed times continuously, such as the Prophets (a.s.) and the Awṣiyāʾ (a.s.), who visit him every Friday night.

Indeed, Allah, the Exalted, bestows upon him a special outpouring of mercy every Friday night. [976]

All the Prophets (a.s.) visit him every year on the night of the fifteenth of Shaʿbān. [977]

And on Laylat al-Qadr they come to visit him every year. [978]

Likewise, Jibrāʾīl and Mīkāʾīl visit him at specific times. [979]

The first person in this worldly existence to visit him was Sayyid al-Sājidīn, Imam al-Sajjad (a.s.), who came three days later for his burial together with a group from Banī Asad, according to the details that will be mentioned later, if Allah wills. (In shāʾ Allāh)

Then he levelled and arranged the grave and visited his noble father (a.s.) with a special salām.

After him, the various tribes and clans living around Karbala came to visit him.

It is even narrated in one report that during the course of a year, or more than a year, one hundred thousand women came to visit him. [980]

A few days later, ʿUqbah ibn ʿAmr al-Sahmī came to visit him and recited elegiac poetry in mourning for him.

According to some, he was the first poet to compose a lamentation for that noble one (a.s.). [981]

The first person who came to visit him from distant lands was Jābir ibn ʿAbdullāh al-Anṣārī, whose visitation has a special account that will be mentioned later, if Allah wills. [982]