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 عَنِ اَلنَّضْرِ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ حُمَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ اَلْمَكْفُوفِ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنِ اَلصَّائِمِ مَتَى يَحْرُمُ عَلَيْهِ اَلطَّعَامُ فَقَالَ« إِذَا كَانَ اَلْفَجْرُ كَالْقُبْطِيَّةِ اَلْبَيْضَاءِ» قُلْتُ فَمَتَى تَحِلُّ اَلصَّلاَةُ فَقَالَ« إِذَا كَانَ كَذَلِكَ» فَقُلْتُ أَ لَسْتُ فِي وَقْتٍ مِنْ تِلْكَ اَلسَّاعَةِ إِلَى أَنْ تَطْلُعَ اَلشَّمْسُ فَقَالَ« لاَ إِنَّمَا نَعُدُّهَا صَلاَةَ اَلصِّبْيَانِ» ثُمَّ قَالَ« إِنَّهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ يُحْمَدُ اَلرَّجُلُ أَنْ يُصَلِّيَ فِي اَلْمَسْجِدِ ثُمَّ يَرْجِعَ فَيُنَبِّهَ أَهْلَهُ وَ صِبْيَانَهُ»
Narrated by al-Husayn ibn Sa’id from al-Nadr from ‘Asim ibn Humayd from Abu Basir al-Makfuf, who said:
I asked Abu Abdillah عليه السلام about the fasting person; when does food become forbidden for him? Imam عليه السلام said: "When the dawn is like the white Coptic garment." I asked: "Then when does the prayer become permissible?" Imam عليه السلام said: "When it is like that." I asked: "Am I not within the time (of prayer) from that moment until the sun rises?" Imam عليه السلام said: "No, we only count that as the prayer of children." Then Imam عليه السلام said: "Indeed, it was not commendable for a man to pray in the mosque and then return to wake up his family and children"
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 2, p. 40
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