Chapter on Times of Prayer and Sign of Each of Its Times
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 4
وَ رَوَى اَلْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ بْنِ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ بَكْرٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ: «أَحَبُّ اَلْوَقْتِ إِلَى اَللَّهِ عَزَّوَجَلَّ أَوَّلُهُ حِينَ يَدْخُلُ وَقْتُ اَلصَّلاَةِ فَصَلِّ اَلْفَرِيضَةَ فَإِنْ لَمْ تَفْعَلْ فَإِنَّكَ فِي وَقْتٍ مِنْهُمَا حَتَّى تَغِيبَ اَلشَّمْسُ»
Al-Husayn ibn Sa’id narrated from Fadalah ibn Ayyub, from Musa ibn Bakr, from Zurarah, who said:
Abu Ja’far عليه السلام said: “The most beloved time to Allah سبحانه وتعالى, Mighty and Majestic, is its beginning, when the time of prayer enters. So perform the obligatory prayer. But if you do not do so, then you are still within the time of both of them until the sun sets.”
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 2, p. 26
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