Chapter on the Virtue of Congregational Prayer

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 3|Book 1|Chapter 2
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Volume 3, Book 1, Chapter 2

Chapter on the Virtue of Congregational Prayer

اَلْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ اَلنَّضْرِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ:« اَلصَّلاَةُ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ تَفْضُلُ عَلَى كُلِّ صَلاَةِ اَلْفَرْدِ بِأَرْبَعٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ دَرَجَةً تَكُونُ خَمْساً وَ عِشْرِينَ صَلاَةً»
Al-Husayn ibn Sa’id from al-Nadr ibn Suwayd from Abdullah ibn Sinan from Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, he said: Imam al-Sadiq عليه السلام said: “The prayer in congregation surpasses every individual prayer by twenty-four degrees making it twenty-five prayers.”
  • Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
    Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 3, p. 28
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb, p. 262