
The rewards for visiting the sick are great in both number and magnitude. The Prophet Muhammad said:“If a man calls on his sick Muslim brother, it is as if he walks reaping the fruits of Paradise until he sits, and when he sits he is showered in mercy, and if this was in the morning, seventy thousand angels pray for him until the evening, and if this was in the evening, seventy thousand angels pray for him until the morning.” (Al-Tirmidhi)And he, Heavenly Salutations be upon him, also said:“Whoever...