The Place from Which the Clay of the Grave of Ĥusain (a.s.) Should be Collected and How it Should be Collected

Abū ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq (a.s.)) said, “There is some red dust next to the head of Ḥusain ibn ‘Ali (a.s.) which is the cure for every disease except death.” After we heard this Ḥadīth, we went to the Grave (of Ḥusain…

Abū ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq (a.s.)) said: The clay of the grave of Ḥusain (a.s.) can be collected from up to a distance of seventy fathoms from the grave.

Abū ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq (a.s.)) said: When one of you holds the clay of the grave of Ḥusain (a.s.), you should recite (the following): O Allāh! I ask You through the right of the angel who picked it, and the Messenger…

Abū Ja’far (Imam Bāqir (a.s.)) said: When you take from the clay of the grave of Ḥusain (a.s.), you should say: O Allāh! I ask You through the right of this dust, through the right of the angel who is dedicated to it and…

I was in Makkah when I said to Abī ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq (a.s.)), “May I sacrifice myself for you! I have seen some of our companions take some of the clay of the Ḥā`ir and seek cure with it. Does it contain any cure…

Abū ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq (a.s.)) said: The clay of the grave of Ḥusain (a.s.) can be collected from up to (a radius of) seventy fathoms by seventy fathoms from the grave.

He said: In order to seal the clay of the grave of Ḥusain (a.s.) one should recite (the chapter of) Innā Anzalnāh on it.

When one takes from the clay of the grave of Ḥusain (a.s.), he should recite (the following): O Allāh! I ask You through the right of this purified dust, through the right of the blessed spot, through the right of the…

Abū ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq (a.s.)) said: The sacred boundaries of the grave of Ḥusain (a.s.) are one parasang by one parasang by one parasang by one parasang.

I said to Abī ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq (a.s.)), “I am a man with many illnesses and diseases and there is not any medicine that I have not tried.” Imam (a.s.) said: Why have you not used the dust (from the grave) of Ḥusain…

I took some of the dust which is close to the head of the grave of Ḥusain ibn ‘Ali (a.s.). It was a red-coloured clay. I took it to Imam Riďā (a.s.) to show it to him. He held it in his palm, smelled it, and started to…

Imam Sādiq (a.s.) said: When you want to carry some of the clay of the grave of Ḥusain (a.s.) with you, recite (the Chapters) Fātiḥah, Mu’awwadhatayn, Qul Huwallāhu Aḥad, Innā Anzalnāh, Yā Sīn, and Āyatul Kursī. Then…