Chapter on the Prayer of the Drowning Person, the One Who Is Alone, and the One in Necessity, and Other Such Cases

Al-Husayn ibn Said from Fadalah from Husayn from Sama’ah from Abu Basir. He said: I asked Imam عليه السلام about a sick person, can a woman hold something for him to prostrate upon? Imam عليه السلام said: “No, unless he is in a state of necessity, having no one else with him and nothing else available. There is nothing that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has forbidden except that He عز وجل has made it permissible, for the one who is compelled to it.”