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

As for what was narrated by Sa‘d ibn Abdullah from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Najran and al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Hammad ibn Isa from Hariz ibn Abdullah from Muhammad ibn Muslim, who said: I asked Abu Abdillah عليه السلام about a man who is an imam and begins with (Surah) al-Hamd but does not recite ‘Bismillah Hir Rahman Nir Rahim’. Imam عليه السلام said: “It does not harm him, and there is no problem with it.”