Al-Kafi · Hadith 12

The Book of Prayer · One Performing Salah (Prayer) Partially behind an Imam Who then Asks Him to Lead because of Losing his Wudu’ · Volume 3, book 4, chapter 56, Hadith 12

Original Arabic text

12ـ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ بْنِ أَيُّوبَ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ صَلَّى مَعَ قَوْمٍ وَهُوَ يَرَى أَنَّهَا الأولَى وَكَانَتِ الْعَصْرَ قَالَ فَلْيَجْعَلْهَا الأولَى وَلْيُصَلِّ الْعَصْرَ. وَفِي حَدِيثٍ آخَرَ فَإِنْ عَلِمَ أَنَّهُمْ فِي صَلاَةِ الْعَصْرِ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ صَلَّى الأولَى فَلاَ يَدْخُلْ مَعَهُمْ.

Published English translation

12. A group of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Fadalah ibn Ayyub from al-Husayn ibn ‘Uthman from Sama‘ah from abu Basir from who has said the following: “I once asked him (the Imam) (a.s.), about a man who performs Salah (prayer) with a people and he thinks it is the first (al-Dhuhr) but it is al-‘Asr. He (the Imam) said, ‘He considers it the first and perform al-‘Asr.’” In another Hadith it is said, ‘If he knows that it is al-‘Asr and has not performed the one before, he is not to join them.”’

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: موثق وآخره مرسل

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/280)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: صحيح

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 308

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