Places Where Prayer is Permissible and Where it is Not Permissible
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 39
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh
Book 1, Chapter 39
Places Where Prayer is Permissible and Where it is Not Permissible
وَ سَأَلَ مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ وَهْبٍ أَبَا عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ: عَنِ اَلرَّجُلِ وَ اَلْمَرْأَةِ يُصَلِّيَانِ فِي بَيْتٍ وَاحِدٍ فَقَالَ «إِذَا كَانَ بَيْنَهُمَا قَدْرُ شِبْرٍ صَلَّتْ بِحِذَاهُ وَحْدَهَا وَ هُوَ وَحْدَهُ لاَ بَأْسَ.
Muawiya ibn Wahb asked Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq عليه السلام about a man and a woman praying in the same room. Imam عليه السلام said: "If there is a space of about a handspan (shibr) between them, She may pray beside him alone and he alone; there is no harm."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh, p. 36