The Reward for Those Who Recite a Poem about Ĥusain عليه السلام, Cry, and Make Others Cry

5. Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan narrated to me from Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Al-Saffār, from Muḥammad ibn Ḥusain, from Muḥammad ibn Ismā’īl, from Sāliḥ ibn ‘Uqbah, from Abī Hārūn Al-Makfūf, who said: I went to Abī ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq عليه السلام) and he asked me to recite a poem (about Ḥusain عليه السلام) for him. I started to recite a poem (without any intonation). So he (stopped me and) said, “No. Recite the way you usually recite (with intonation) and the way you recite eulogies by his grave.” I started to recite the poem (which begins with): “Pass by the grave of Ḥusain and say to his purified bones…” The Imam عليه السلام started to cry so I stopped. However, the Imam عليه السلام said to me, “Pass by (referring to the previous line of poetry, instructing me to continue).” After I finished reciting (this poem), Imam عليه السلام said, “Read more! Read more!” So I started reciting the following poem: O Maryam! Start the lamentation over your master, Ḥusain عليه السلام, and shed abundant tears over him. When I read this verse, the Imam عليه السلام cried and the women (in his house) also cried and became restless. After the women calmed down, the Imam عليه السلام said to me: O Abā Hārūn! Anyone who recites a poem about Ḥusain عليه السلام and makes ten people cry will be rewarded with Paradise. Then he kept reducing the number from ten (people) one by one until he reached one (person) and said: Anyone who recites a poem about Ḥusain عليه السلام and makes one person cry will be rewarded with Paradise. He (the Imam عليه السلام) added, “Anyone who remembers Ḥusain عليه السلام and cries will be rewarded with Paradise.”