Men Lead Salah (Prayer) for Women and Women Lead Salah (Prayer) for Women
Al-Kāfi|Volume 3|Book 4|Chapter 52
Al-Kāfi
Volume 3, Book 4, Chapter 52
Men Lead Salah (Prayer) for Women and Women Lead Salah (Prayer) for Women
2ـ جَمَاعَةٌ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ خَالِدٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) عَنِ الْمَرْأَةِ تَؤُمُّ النِّسَاءَ فَقَالَ إِذَا كُنَّ جَمِيعاً أَمَّتْهُنَّ فِي النَّافِلَةِ فَأَمَّا الْمَكْتُوبَةُ فَلاَ وَلاَ تَقَدَّمْهُنَّ وَلَكِنْ تَقُومُ وَسَطاً مِنْهُنَّ.
2. A group has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Fadalah from ibn Sinan from Sulayman ibn Khalid who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, about a woman’s leading other women in Salah (prayer). He (the Imam) said, ‘She can do so if they all follow her in optional Salah (prayer), but not in obligatory Salah (prayer), and she is not to lead them, instead she stands up in their middle.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/262)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 303