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Al-Kafi · Hadith 9

The Book of Prayer · Those Who Preserve Salah (prayer) and Those Who Lose · Volume 3, book 4, chapter 2, Hadith 9

Original Arabic text

9ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنِ الْعِيصِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) وَالله إِنَّهُ لَيَأْتِي عَلَى الرَّجُلِ خَمْسُونَ سَنَةً وَمَا قَبِلَ الله مِنْهُ صَلاَةً وَاحِدَةً فَأَيُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ أَشَدُّ مِنْ هَذَا وَالله إِنَّكُمْ لَتَعْرِفُونَ مِنْ جِيرَانِكُمْ وَأَصْحَابِكُمْ مَنْ لَوْ كَانَ يُصَلِّي لِبَعْضِكُمْ مَا قَبِلَهَا مِنْهُ لاسْتِخْفَافِهِ بِهَا إِنَّ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لاَ يَقْبَلُ إِلاَّ الْحَسَنَ فَكَيْفَ يَقْبَلُ مَا يُسْتَخَفُّ بِهِ.

Published English translation

9. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Safwan ibn Yahya from al-‘is ibn al-Qasim who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘A man may become fifty years old, but Allah has accepted not even one Salah (prayer) from him. What can be more serious than this? By Allah, you may also find someone in your neighborhood who performs Salah (prayer) with you, but is not accepted from him due to his considering it insignificant. Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Glorious, does not accept anything other than what is good. How then He will accept what he considers insignificant?”’

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: صحيح

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/15)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: صحيح

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 257

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Muhammad Sarwar
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