Excellence of visiting the sick

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "A man who goes to visit his sick brother in Islam walks in the gardens of Paradise until he sits down, and when he sits, mercy covers him. If it is in the morning, seventy thousand angels pray for him until evening; and if it is in the evening, seventy thousand angels pray for him until morning" [Ibn Maja 1442; Sahih Sunan Ibn Maja 1191].