Chapter on the Prayer Times (Mawaqit)

From him, from Muhammad ibn Ziyad from Abdullah ibn Yahya al-Kahili from Zurarah, who said: I said to Abu Abdillah عليه السلام: “I fast, and I do not take a midday nap until the sun passes its zenith. When it passes, I pray my supererogatory prayers, then I pray Dhuhr, then I pray my supererogatory prayers, then I pray ‘Asr, and then I sleep, and this is before the people pray.” Imam عليه السلام said: “O Zurarah, when the sun passes its zenith, the time has entered. But I dislike for you to take that (early time) as a constant habit.”