Matters Accepted From Salah (Prayer) of a Forgetful Person
Al-Kāfi|Volume 3|Book 4|Chapter 44
5ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ قَالَ فِي كِتَابِ حَرِيزٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ إِنِّي نَسِيتُ أَنِّي فِي صَلاَةٍ فَرِيضَةٍ حَتَّى رَكَعْتُ وَأَنَا أَنْوِيهَا تَطَوُّعاً قَالَ فَقَالَ هِيَ الَّتِي قُمْتَ فِيهَا إِنْ كُنْتَ قُمْتَ وَأَنْتَ تَنْوِي فَرِيضَةً ثُمَّ دَخَلَكَ الشَّكُّ فَأَنْتَ فِي الْفَرِيضَةِ وَإِنْ كُنْتَ دَخَلْتَ فِي نَافِلَةٍ فَنَوَيْتَهَا فَرِيضَةً فَأَنْتَ فِي النَّافِلَةِ وَإِنْ كُنْتَ دَخَلْتَ فِي فَرِيضَةٍ ثُمَّ ذَكَرْتَ نَافِلَةً كَانَتْ عَلَيْكَ فَامْضِ فِي الْفَرِيضَةِ.
5. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Mughirah who has said the following: “It is in the book of Hariz who has said that once I forgot about my being in obligatory Salah (prayer) until Ruku‘ (bowing down on one’s knees). Can I make my intention for it to be an optional Salah (prayer)? He (the Imam) عليه السلام, said, ‘It is what you had stood up for. If you stood up to perform an obligatory Salah (prayer) then doubts entered, you are still in obligatory Salah (prayer). If you stood up for optional Salah (prayer) then made your intention for obligatory Salah (prayer), you were still in optional Salah (prayer). If you stood up for obligatory then you remembered optional Salah (prayer) which was due, you were to complete it as obligatory.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (15/235)
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