Chapter on the Manner of Prayer, Its Description and What is Obligatory and Recommended

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 15
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Volume 2, Book 1, Chapter 15

Chapter on the Manner of Prayer, Its Description and What is Obligatory and Recommended

عَنْهُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ اَلْحُسَيْنِ عَنِ اَلْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَدْ يَشْتَدُّ عَلَيَّ اَلْقِيَامُ فِي اَلصَّلاَةِ فَقَالَ« إِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَنْ تُدْرِكَ صَلاَةَ اَلْقَائِمِ فَاقْرَأْ وَ أَنْتَ جَالِسٌ فَإِذَا بَقِيَ مِنَ اَلسُّورَةِ آيَتَانِ فَقُمْ فَأَتِمَّ مَا بَقِيَ وَ اِرْكَعْ وَ اُسْجُدْ فَذَلِكَ صَلاَةُ اَلْقَائِمِ»
From him, from Muhammad ibn Al-Husayn, from Al-Hasan ibn Ali, from Hammad ibn Uthman who said: I said to Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him: “Sometimes standing in prayer becomes difficult for me.” Imam عليه السلام said: "If you want to attain the reward of the one who stands in prayer, then recite while you are sitting, and when only two verses remain from the Surah, then stand up, complete what remains, bow, and prostrate, that will be counted as the prayer of one who stood."
  • Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
    Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 2, p. 319
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 210