Women Performing Salah (Prayer) in Front of Men or Men Performing Salah (Prayer) With Women in Front (This chapter is best explained through the fatwas)

Al-Kāfi|Volume 3|Book 4|Chapter 15
Al-Kāfi

Volume 3, Book 4, Chapter 15

Women Performing Salah (Prayer) in Front of Men or Men Performing Salah (Prayer) With Women in Front (This chapter is best explained through the fatwas)

1ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) فِي الْمَرْأَةِ تُصَلِّي إِلَى جَنْبِ الرَّجُلِ قَرِيباً مِنْهُ فَقَالَ إِذَا كَانَ بَيْنَهُمَا مَوْضِعُ رَحْلٍ فَلاَ بَأْسَ.
1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Hammad from Hariz who has said the following: “I once asked abu ’Abd Allah عليه السلام, about the case of a woman who performs Salah (prayer) on the side of the man nearby. He (the Imam) said, ‘If there is a distance of one Rahl (yard), it is not harmful.
  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi
    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (15/71)
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 266