Chapter on the Qiblah (Direction of Prayer)
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 5
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ عَنِ اَلْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَمِيلَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ اَلْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ: فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى« وَأَقِيمُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ عِنْدَ كُلِّ مَسْجِدٍ» قَالَ« مَسَاجِدُ مُحْدَثَةٌ فَأُمِرُوا أَنْ يُقِيمُوا وُجُوهَهُمْ« شَطْرَ اَلْمَسْجِدِ اَلْحَرٰامِ»
Narrated by Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Mahbub from Ahmad from al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Faddal from Abu Jamilah from Muhammad ibn Ali al-Halabi:
Abu Abdillah عليه السلام (was asked) regarding the saying of the Exalted: ‘"And direct your faces at every place of worship,"‘ (Surah A'raf 7:29) Imam عليه السلام said: "Newly built mosques, so they were commanded to direct their faces ‘toward al-Masjid al-Haram’."
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 2, p. 45
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 165