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Al-Kafi · Hadith 22

The Book of Prayer · Recitations in Salah (prayer) · Volume 3, book 4, chapter 21, Hadith 22

Original Arabic text

22ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُعَاذُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) أَنَّهُ قَالَ لاَ تَدَعْ أَنْ تَقْرَأَ بِقُلْ هُوَ الله أَحَدٌ وَقُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ فِي سَبْعِ مَوَاطِنَ فِي الرَّكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ الْفَجْرِ وَرَكْعَتَيِ الزَّوَالِ وَرَكْعَتَيْنِ بَعْدَ الْمَغْرِبِ وَرَكْعَتَيْنِ مِنْ أَوَّلِ صَلاَةِ اللَّيْلِ وَرَكْعَتَيِ الإِحْرَامِ وَالْفَجْرِ إِذَا أَصْبَحْتَ بِهَا وَرَكْعَتَيِ الطَّوَافِ. وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى أَنَّهُ يُبْدَأُ فِي هَذَا كُلِّهِ بِ قُلْ هُوَ الله أَحَدٌ وَفِي الرَّكْعَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ بِ قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ إِلاَّ فِي الرَّكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ الْفَجْرِ فَإِنَّهُ يُبْدَأُ بِ قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ ثُمَّ يُقْرَأُ فِي الرَّكْعَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ بِ قُلْ هُوَ الله أَحَدٌ.

Published English translation

22. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from ’Abd Allah ibn al-Mughirah who has said that narrated to him Mu’adh ibn Muslim who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘You must not miss reading Surah (chapter) 112 and 109 in seven instances. Read them in the two Rak‘at before dawn, in the two Rak‘at at noontime, in the two Rak‘at after al-Maghrib, in the first two Rak‘at of the night Salah (prayer), the two Rak‘at for Ihram. Read them in the two Rak‘at of the morning if you begin the morning with them and the two Rak‘at for Tawaf.’” “In another Hadith it is said that in all of these Surah (Chapter) 112 is read first and in the second Rak‘at is Surah (Chapter) 109 except for the two Rak‘at before the morning in which Surah (Chapter) 109 is read first and in the second Rak‘at Surah (chapter) 112 is read.”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: حسن وآخره مرسل

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/113)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: صحيح

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 273

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