Original Arabic text
Published English translation
2. It is a narration from him (narrator of previous Hadith) by Ahmad ibn al-Husayn from Fadalah from al-Husayn ibn abu al-‘Ala’ who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘If one’s guess settles on his performing three or four Rak‘at, he says the phrase of offering greeting of peace, then performs two Rak‘at and four Sujud (prostrations) with al-Fatihah al-Kitab in a sitting position and says Tashahhud (testimonies of belief).”’
Narrator and transmission
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Attributed scholarly assessments
Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: حسن
Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/193)
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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: صحيح
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 292
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Source, rights, and attribution
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- license
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- edition
- Al-Kafi, volume 3, Thaqalayn digital edition / Muhammad Sarwar translation
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- attribution
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- translator
- Muhammad Sarwar
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- original Source Url
- https://thaqalayn.net/hadith/1/4/40/2
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