There are many traditions concerning the merit of Imam Reza’s (A.S.) Ziyarah (pilgrimage) in general, and in some its thawab (spiritual reward) is concerned to be equal to that of the martyrdom of the martyrs of Badr, and in still other traditions its thawab is considered equal to that of a hajj pilgrimage.
Ja’far ibn Muhammad ibn Qulawayh narrates the following tradition from Hassan ibn Abd Allah, from his father, Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Isa,from Dawud Sarmi, who narrates from Abu Ja’far the Second ,Imam Muhammad al-Taqi (A.S.), ninth Holy Imam, saying:
I heard him say, “Whoever visits my father’s tomb shall enter paradise."(1)