Chapter on the Manner of Prayer, Explanation of the Fifty-One Rak‘ahs; The Order, Recitation, Tasbih in Bowing and Prostration, Qunut, and What is Obligatory and Recommended Therein

Al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id, from Safwan, from Mansur ibn Hazim, from Bakr ibn Habib, who said: I said to Abu Ja‘far عليه السلام, peace be upon him: “What should I say in the ‘tashahhud’ and in the ‘qunut’?” Imam عليه السلام said: “Say the best of what you know, for if it had been fixed (with strict wording), the people would have perished.”