Crying of the Angels on Ĥusain ibn ‘Ali — Hadith 9

9. My father narrated to me from Sa’d ibn ‘Abdillāh, from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Isā, from ‘Abbās ibn Ma’rūf, from Ḥammād ibn ‘Isā, from Rib’i, who said: I asked Abā ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq (a. s. )) in Madīnah, “Where are the graves of the martyrs? ” Imam (a. s. ) replied: Is not the best of the martyrs – referring to Ḥusain (a. s. ) – (buried) near you? ! I swear to He who has my life in His Hand that there are four thousand disheveled angels around the grave of Ḥusain (a. s. ) who are covered with dust. They cry over him (and will continue to do so) until the Day of Judgment. The above Ḥadīth has also been narrated to me through the following chain: Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan, from Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Al-Saffār, from ‘Abbās ibn Ma’rūf, from Ḥammād ibn ‘Isā, from Rib’i, from Abī ‘Abdillāh (a. s. ).