The Place from Which the Clay of the Grave of Ĥusain عليه السلام Should be Collected and How it Should be Collected

10. Ja’far ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Al-Mūsawi narrated to me from ‘Abdillāh ibn Nahīk, from Sa’d ibn Sāliḥ, from Ḥasan ibn ‘Ali ibn Abī Mughīrah, from one of our companions, who said: I said to Abī ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq عليه السلام), “I am a man with many illnesses and diseases and there is not any medicine that I have not tried.” Imam عليه السلام said: Why have you not used the dust (from the grave) of Ḥusain عليه السلام?! Verily it contains the cure for every disease and it is protection against any fear. When you take from it you should say: O Allāh! I ask You through the right of this clay, through the right of the angel who took from it, through the right of the Prophet who held it, and through the right of the Successor who is lying in it to send Your blessing on Muḥammad and his family and to make it my cure against every disease and my protection against any fear. Then Imam عليه السلام added: The angel who took from it was Jabra`īl who showed it to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and said, “This is the dust of this son of yours. Your nation will kill him after you.” The prophet who held it was Muḥammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and the successor who is lying in it is Ḥusain ibn ‘Ali عليه السلام, the Master of the Martyrs. I said, “I understand that it is a cure for every disease but how is it a protection against any fear?” Imam عليه السلام replied: If you fear a ruler or anything similar to that, do not leave your house without carrying some of the clay of the grave of Ḥusain عليه السلام. When you take from it, you should say: O Allāh! This is the clay of the grave of Ḥusain, Your Walī and the son of Your Walī, and I have carried it as protection against that which I fear and that which I do not. Imam عليه السلام added, “Verily it is possible that a tragedy which you do not fear might befall you.” So I took it as he had ordered and I swear to Allāh that I became healthy. It was also my protection against that which I feared and against that which I did not fear, just as the Imam عليه السلام had said. Praise be to Allāh that I have not seen any misfortune ever since.