The Opening Readings When Commencing Salah (prayer)
Al-Kāfi|Volume 3|Book 4|Chapter 20
6ـ وَرَوَاهُ أَيْضاً عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ وَفَسَّرَهُنَّ فِي الظُّهْرِ إِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ تَكْبِيرَةً وَفِي الْعَصْرِ إِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ تَكْبِيرَةً وَفِي الْمَغْرِبِ سِتَّ عَشْرَةَ تَكْبِيرَةً وَفِي الْعِشَاءِ الآخِرَةِ إِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ تَكْبِيرَةً وَفِي الْفَجْرِ إِحْدَى عَشْرَةَ تَكْبِيرَةً وَخَمْسَ تَكْبِيرَاتِ الْقُنُوتِ فِي خَمْسِ صَلَوَاتٍ.
6. He (Ali ibn Ibrahim) has narrated it also from his father from ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Mughirah. In explaining he has said that in al-Dhuhr there are twenty-one, in al-‘Asr twenty-one, in al-Maghrib sixteen, in al-‘Isha’ al-Akhirah twenty-one and in the morning Salah (prayer) there are eleven and in the five Qunut there are five Takbir (Allah is great beyond description).
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (15/99)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 271