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

And from him, from Muhammad ibn Yahya from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn Mahziyar from Yahya ibn ‘Imran al-Hamdani who said: I wrote to Abu Ja‘far عليه السلام, peace be upon him; “May I be your ransom, what do you say about a man who begins with ‘Bismillah Hir Rahman Nir Rahim’ in his prayer, alone, in Surah al-Fatiha, but when he reaches a different Surah after al-Fatiha, he omits it? The ‘Abbasid (official) said: ‘There is no harm in that.’” So He عليه السلام, peace be upon him, wrote in His عليه السلام own handwriting: “He must repeat it twice, despite his nose.” This was meaning the ‘Abbasid (so the nose of that ‘Abbasid, who claimed there was no harm, be rubbed in the dust).