Excellence of Tawaf

1. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah from al-Hassan ibn Yusuf from Zakariya’ al-Mu’min from Ali ibn Maymun al-Sa‘igh who has said the following: “Once a man came to see Ali ibn al-Husayn عليه السلام, and he (the Imam) asked him, ’Have you come to perform al-Hajj?’ He replied, ‘Yes, I intend to do so. He (the Imam) asked, ‘Do you know what the reward for al-Hajj is?’ He replied, ‘No, I do not know.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘For one who comes to perform al-Hajj, walks seven times around the House, performs two Rak‘at salat (prayer), Allah writes seventy thousand good deeds. He deletes seventy thousand of his sinful deeds, raises for him seventy thousand degrees, accepts his intercession for seventy thousand wishes, and writes for him the reward for setting free seventy thousand slaves, each worth ten thousand dirhams.”’